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Arab horsemen from behind the Turks galloped towards us, bucketing unhandily across the irrigation ditches.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

"It will drift there in a day and a night, " the ferryman said, then watched as his boat was unhandily rowed out into the stream.

Sharpe's Escape Cornwell, Bernard 2003

I put them on slowly and unhandily, because of my swollen wrists: and from the drugs chose corrosive sublimate, as safeguard against recapture.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

I bound them up, and getting them unhandily on my shoulders — for I was not used to carrying burdens — set out for the oak wood.

The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

The painted group moved round Samneric nervously and unhandily.

Lord of the Flies Golding, William, 1911- 1954

When they had understood what made this ghostly noise and Percival was quiet again, Ralph and Simon picked him up unhandily and carried him to a shelter.

Lord of the Flies Golding, William, 1911- 1954

He was in trouble about his rod, having snapped the top joint in unhandily dealing with a fine chub.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

Ling and Izak went last, dropping the stolen guns they had held so unhandily.

The Devil's Asteroid Manly Wade Wellman 1944

It did not come so unhandily to them as might have been imagined.

Dick Hamilton's Airship, or, a Young Millionaire in the Clouds Howard Roger Garis 1917

Occasionally a wretched bishop would find himself floundering unhandily, in masculine bewilderment, through something like a complete catalogue of contemporary fashions, in order to specify what the nuns were _not_ to wear.

Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914