As he put it in his report to Mr. Greenfield, There wasn't any use wasting time trying to persuade Miss Preston with that hulking big Eastern Shoreman menacing me.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
Jack's was a perfect bower, "more fit," as Throckmorton remarked with good-natured sarcasm, "for a young lady's boudoir than a bunk for a hulking youngster."
"Throckmorton"
Molly Elliot Seawell
The hulking mason entered awkwardly, and refused a chair.
"Peccavi"
E. W. Hornung