He had merely attended to his own and his country's business in a solid, common-sense way in one of those obscure and tight places into which the British officer frequently finds himself forced by the unwieldiness of the empire or the indiscretion of an effervescent press.
"Roden's Corner"
Henry Seton Merriman
It thus becomes clear that by the middle of 1887, the Great Upheaval of the unskilled and semi-skilled portions of the working class had already subsided beneath the strength of the combined employers and the unwieldiness of their own organization.
"A History of Trade Unionism in the United States"
Selig Perlman
And beside it stood an implement, which reminded us by its simplicity and unwieldiness of an apparatus, described in mythology as used by Ceres dea agriculturae-when teaching to mankind this important occupation.
"By Water to the Columbian Exposition"
Johanna S. Wisthaler