unweildly

Updated: June 6, 2025

Among the attractions of this Christmas foolery a real elephant was introduced, and in due time the unweildly brute came clumping down the stage, making a prodigious figure in a procession. The friend who sat close to Johnstone jogged his elbow, whispering, "This is a bitter bad job for Drury. Why, the elephant's alive! he'll carry all before him, and beat you hollow. What d'ye think on't, eh?"

Edward Robins - The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield