What is "unwieldy"

Usage examples of "unwieldy".

Ras Muguletu was skulking on Ambo Aradam with his forty thousand, while Ras Kassa and Ras Seyoum were struggling to move the great unwieldy masses of their two armies through the mountain passes to link up with the army of the Emperor on the shores of Lake Tona.

The lower portion of the other is hidden from view by the head of the unwieldy bedstead which is thrust close up against it.

They helped him lift his unwieldy body from table, gave him the support of their arms, and he walked with wide steps between them bedwards, his mighty head sunk on his lifted shoulder.

The Dessie road was choked for a dozen miles with the slow unwieldy column of the retreat, the ragged files of trudging figures, bowed in the rain, their heads covered with their shammas, their bare feet sliding and slipping in the mud.

The bullock train carrying the tentage and supplies stretched for seven miles, while the whole unwieldy column spread out over fifteen miles.

All the rooms of the new house were full to bursting with familiar things made strange and disturbing by their crowdedness and juxtaposition in this new setting, like an unwieldy nightmare into which an entire life has been shuffled out of impersonal malicious glee.

Governor Supreme to the ruined city Prince Lysaer undertook to restore, Lord Diegan, ex-commander of the garrison, sat his glossy bay war-horse and glared through the pennons that cracked at the head of the unwieldy column bound for Avenor.

He bent his knees slightly, as if urging the train to greater speed, his body suddenly possessed by his race against the unwieldy net dosing round him.

I rather think, Prince of Jesters instead, Hyrcan the Fat and Unwieldy!

Brigade officers were galloping among the newly formed British squares, ordering some battalions further back so that the unwieldy formations were staggered like a draught board.

In retaining their own unwieldy defensive armour, the Northern Crusaders seemed to set at defiance the nature of the climate and country to which they had come to war.

He concentrated, and presently there formed not far off an unwieldy mass of wires and bars and gridlike extensions.

The long poles were unwieldy until she devised secure holders for them, one in each basket carried on either side of the horse.

The carriage Olivia had to use for the twins was the most unwieldy antiquated thing she had ever seen, but Bertie had insisted on bringing it from Croton.

Visitors came to it in their carriages and unwieldy four-horse chariots, attended by troops of servants, making slow but most enjoyable pilgrimages over the mountain roads, journeys that lasted a week or a fortnight, and were every day enlivened by jovial adventure.