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He pursued her briefly and cumbrously with unexpected visits and tentative love-letters; she eluded him without much difficulty.

Both were men-of-war that moved forward slowly, cumbrously, as if in pain.

The Dragon reeled cumbrously sideways and bit the dust, of which there was plenty.

At that time we had only the vaguest idea of what the Commune was, and none whatsoever of the new ideas of justice and equality which underlay that cumbrously ill-managed business.

The machine will go forward ponderously and cumbrously, but it will not go backward without an infinite amount of toil and trouble.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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