"Say, let go my foot," Nan hailed her inelegantly. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves] Reference
I rather inelegantly melted the ends back together. From Wordnik.com. [September 2007] Reference
"Road-stuff," as he inelegantly termed it, was made. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
Lord Severidge stopped abruptly and gaped inelegantly. From Wordnik.com. [Heartless]
"Nothing doing," he said inelegantly but comprehensively. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
"Duck!" cried Betty inelegantly, and they ran for shelter. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue] Reference
Anything CAN happen, as she so inelegantly suggested May 23. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Supporters Reject 'The Missionary Position' on Demo Ticket] Reference
Miss Earle retorted inelegantly, and with ghoulish satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
"Huh!" ejaculated Phil inelegantly, utterly taken by surprise by. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference
Alyx went over and dropped inelegantly into a chair beside Tinnie. From Wordnik.com. [Angry Lead Skies]
For once Cora had been speechless — and inelegantly open-mouthed. From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Bride]
Arian Campo-FloresGermany 1, Brazil 0Germany keeps winning inelegantly. From Wordnik.com. [The Clash Of The Titans] Reference
The City handled the entire water problem about as inelegantly as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Express Car Wash Sues Charlottesville at cvillenews.com] Reference
The shout rang out as I lumbered inelegantly across the packed school hall. From Wordnik.com. [I'm very pregnant - and people are unbelievably rude to me!] Reference
The English language has inelegantly descriptive terms for the three degrees of. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
The explanation was inelegantly interrupted by a voice from the kitchen doorway. From Wordnik.com. [The Time of the Transference]
Hillary declined to do that - perhaps inelegantly in a debate, but she declined. From Wordnik.com. [Obama And Bill Duke It Out Over Obama's 2004 War Quote] Reference
A lot of talk has centered on what Sarah Palin inelegantly called "death panels.". From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Senior Moment] Reference
One inelegantly long arm drooped at either side, each looking like that of a gorilla. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
Behind that a man floated a yard off the ground, feet foremost, inelegantly sprawled. From Wordnik.com. [Dreams of Steel]
I inquired inelegantly, but to this day Rothmund insists that we played a trick on him. From Wordnik.com. [Pirates of Venus]
Both of you were quite ready to ask me for a ... a tumble, as you so inelegantly put it!. From Wordnik.com. [River Of Desire]
Tess liked seeing Jackie squirm at the mention of her inelegantly named old neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [Butchers Hill]
Elgan shouted and threw himself flat; Koryon, inelegantly, stalled and let himself tumble. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons at War]
But, now that she was lying there, sprawled inelegantly, brokenly, he felt a little freer. From Wordnik.com. [Starfishers]
"I'll be all right," I said at last, sitting up and wiping my nose inelegantly on my sleeve. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
He stood with eyes wide and mouth inelegantly agape, his gaze flicking from one to the other. From Wordnik.com. [This Scepter'd Isle]
His hair was more white than blond, his ear-tips inelegantly short, and his expression was not inviting. From Wordnik.com. [This Scepter'd Isle]
And China has 1.2 billion potential consumers, all of whom, to put it inelegantly, can be fannies in movie-theater seats. From Wordnik.com. [Now, Mickey Mao] Reference
I went flying headlong into the leaves, where I ended inelegantly sprawled and windless, the Glaswegian kneeling on my stomach. From Wordnik.com. [The Fiery Cross]
But as he was rather inelegantly rising from his chair, a thought struck him forcibly enough to make him fall back into it again. From Wordnik.com. [The English Witch]
As he gaped at the creature, something pulled at the cocoon near his feet, and in seconds it dumped him inelegantly onto the warm stone. From Wordnik.com. [Escape From Roksamur]
Light from overturned lamps spotlighted two knots of struggle, and the shadows of the fighters sprawled huge and inelegantly on the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Children Of The Night]
(What a dead give away!), and then Doug subsequently and inelegantly denies that he and "Michelle" are one and the same a few posts later. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Fallout of the McGavick DUI Story is More Evidence Civility Theme Works] Reference
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