shambler

Updated: May 17, 2025

He was clumsily built, a 'shambler, as they say about us, but there was an air of triumphant vigour about him, and strange to say his bear-like figure was not without a certain grace of its own, proceeding, perhaps, from his absolutely placid confidence in his own strength.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev - A Sportsman's Sketches, Volume 2: Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume 2