"Unwieldsome" Quotes from Famous Books
... indeed still survives in provincial dialects; but of the others all save 'delightsome' are gone; and that, although used in our Authorized Version (Mal. iii, 12), is now only employed in poetry. So too 'mightsome' (see Coleridge's Glossary), 'brightsome' (Marlowe), 'wieldsome', and 'unwieldsome' (Golding), 'unlightsome' (Milton), 'healthsome' (Homilies), 'ugsome' and 'ugglesome' (both in Foxe), 'laboursome' (Shakespeare), 'friendsome', 'longsome' (Bacon), 'quietsome', 'mirksome' (both in Spenser), ... — English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench |