gainly

• “Her hair was kempt, her clothing shevelled, and she moved in a gainly way.”

  Simon & Schuster: No Uncertain Terms

• “His eyes opened wide behind his spectacles and, shoving aside a pair of young men pawing each other, broke into an un - gainly run.”

  Second Skin

• “When she moved them, they flipped out of her less than gainly little grasp.”

  Harpy Thyme

• “He accepted the bed gratefully, stripped away his un - gainly clothing, lay down, and was soon asleep.”

  Juxtaposition

• “His hands and feet seemed to have reverted to their hobbledehoy clumsiness of some years back, in his pimply boyhood, but for all that, the look she gave him in departing made him feel tall, confident and gainly.”

  The Leper of Saint Giles

• “Even his gait was becoming firmer and more gainly now he had a little more flesh on him and was eating regularly.”

  The Leper of Saint Giles

• “In our admiration we entirely separate these qualities from that least gainly and least wholesome of the forms of”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847

• “And the truth glares good and gainly in the face of 'change and mart:”

  Guns of the Gods

• “Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.”

  Anarchism and Other Essays

• “It was all I had to commend me, my tremendous strength, my powerful physique, my agile, gainly motion, and strong shapely limbs.”

  The Story of a Slave. A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times--Hitherto Unwritten--From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress

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