She wasn't the gawky, timid, awestruck girl Samuel remembered.

All it takes to win him, apparently, is two years in Paris, which transforms a gawky girl into a supremely confident woman of the world.

He says you go along for hours not hearing when you are spoken to and acting like a gawky girl.

So, how does a gawky girl from a Czech mountain town grow up to achieve worldwide fame as a fraternity house muse?

There was a short black kid and a gawky white girl.

This now-adult Prince is introduced to a gawky girl called "the Girlfriend".

A gawky young girl, no more than fourteen, with a head of robust red curls, handed the outraged dwarf a towel.

The tall, gawky girl, with her affectation for slang out of the twenties, had gotten to him.

Behind her were a dozen or more children, varying from toddlers to gawky girls and boys of school age.

And, in that same miserable family, there's that great big, gawky girl, over six feet tall.