How To Use Lumbering In A Sentence

That call my slumbering life to wake to happy things. A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul
One minister counseled his people, let us do nothing to rekindle the slumbering fires of prejudice between the two races. A Renegade History of the United States
Cats were slumbering noisily beneath the TV set and a smallish party of utter strangers were drinking Harp in the saloon lounge. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
Perhaps the biggest myth Yi dispelled was that he's some kind of big lumbering center.
It's not fun, it does hurt, abominably, and I do feel like a lumbering bear, huffing and puffing like Pooh on a bad day.

In their opening and closing games England's lumbering back four were hopelessly outmanoeuvred by bursts of fast, mobile, unpredictable attacks, like tankers anchored as speedboats darted around them.
During this time, all the big herbivores and carnivores were great lumbering creatures; some of which may have been semi-aquatic, while others were fully terrestrial.
The drums often play not so much a beat or a pulse, but lumbering repetitions - just as Eastburn's violin at the start of ‘Repent’ is the weariest sawing I've ever heard.
I am a huge fan of fast, movie style fiction, so the slow lumbering is too much for me. The Life Counted In Pages Meme - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn
Currently, he says, enough waste biomass is being generated by lumbering, by farming, and as urban waste to meet 10 percent of U.S. transportation needs.
I never went on some crazy adventure, this lumbering failure of a journey not included, I never got to do any distinctly princely duties…
The company's advisers, BNP Paribas and Rothschild, will earn every centime of their fees if they can deliver a successful stock market launch for this lumbering behemoth.
He is enormous, with a caveman's backward-sloping brow, a hawklike proboscis, and a lumbering walk.
Despite this, none of the newer buses has been assigned to the route, so Victoria buses, slow and lumbering old cows, are often broken-down, causing even more frequent delays.
However, don't think Queen Mary 2 is another clone for the lumbering, simpering, overblown jolly boats wallowing and waddling around the world's sunshine destinations.
David's light caught the long-eared hump-backed shape of an aardvark, lumbering ahead of us at a steady trot.
Why are you lumbering around with that lump on your back on this sweltering summer morning? Times, Sunday Times
New England farmers are also engaged in lumbering and raising livestock.
In the headlamps, Ellie saw a herd of apatosaurs lumbering across the road. Jurassic Park
After much search, and lumbering painfully up two or three staircases in vain, and at last going about in a strange circuity, we found her in a small chamber of a large old building, situated a little way from the brow of the Tarpeian Rock. Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1.
Lumbering, which occupies a department of production by itself in statistics, is also to a great extent a manufacturing operation. An Address by Major L.L. Anthes
The infamous Patterson-Gimlin bigfoot film has been stabilized frame-by-frame to give you a better view of the lumbering woodland beast. Bigfoot Film, Frame-by-Frame | Disinformation
But when they started wandering about her yard and peeping into her outhouse, she came lumbering out. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
The discovery smudges the common picture of sauropods as unspecialized, lumbering dinosaurs that used very long necks to munch away at any greenery in sight, including treetops.
It's a rare occasion that I can consciously recall getting up, lugging my bod into the shower, shoveling some toast in my cakehole and lumbering out the door.
Both were big and lumbering and unfeasibly tough, and it could be said that neither had an awful lot to speak of between the ears, but they were a family unit, and both cared for the other far more than they cared for themselves.
Dear, go to bed. You're slumbering.
The position of the candelabrum displeased me, and outreaching my hand with difficulty, rather than disturb my slumbering valet, I placed it so as to throw its rays more fully upon the book.
Lumbering estate cars honked, gleaming BMWs tooted and a black cab gave a prolonged blast.
But the humpback gives the lie to the notion that things of great bulk move only by lumbering.
Brockman: Yes, well … Homer, organized labor has been called a lumbering dinosaur … The Big Lead
The forces that did all this vast delving and sculpturing -- the air, the rains, the frost, the sunshine -- are as active now as they ever were; but their activity is a kind of slumbering that rarely makes a sign. Time and Change
Apart from his moments of glory on the American football field, he is a lumbering giant mostly used to elicit reactions from the cast around him. Times, Sunday Times
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries lumbering, seal hunting, and whaling attracted a few European settlers to New Zealand.
The foes are also more elusive: Lumbering zombies are replaced by elusive ghosts that materialise and dematerialise at will.
What films remain of Jess show him not to be lumbering and slow but rather agile and balanced.
As we made camp well into our fourth night on the road, I curled up into a little ball, pretending to sleep until I was sure all the others were slumbering.
The clumber spaniel — that lumbering lemon and white teddy bear, its square muzzle as blunt as an old-fashioned rolling pin — was once acclaimed ‘the most handsomest animal this kingdom ever produced’. Dog days for British breeds
Graham and I took a wing each, and bowling along down the slope we got up enough speed and launched the lumbering thing into the void.
Among love's hidden terrors is its capacity to knock away old crutches and breathe on fiercely, and arouse, comfortably slumbering life. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
The lumbering giant turned about, it's piggish face framed with an expression of pure malice.
Eventually a few sticks of dynamite are employed to rid the backwoods of a lumbering odiferous fiend from the Prehistoric era.
A city of northwest Oregon on the Willamette River south of Salem. It is a lumbering and metallurgical center.
A teen girl laid on her side, slumbering in her waterbed, with dark black, down covers and pillows.
Though all the clever and distinctive stylistic tics are there, the dialogue isn't nearly as sharp or quick-witted and the plot itself is rather lumbering, meaning the pace flags and sags on too many occasions.
Outfielders tended to lay back, which suited the era of lumbering, station-to-station baseball. WILLIE MAYS
Fishing and lumbering became major enterprises.
The sea always reminds me of a slumbering monster, waiting for a storm to whip it into a wild frenzy.
We came through Bari, which involved long waits between connections and a lumbering run along the waterfront to the ferry in Patras, with wheeled case bouncing behind.
It was immediately succeeded by a blank look of indifference, yet beneath the assumption of indifference his eyes seemed to burn with a kind of slumbering hostility. The Hermit of Far End
Apart from his moments of glory on the American football field, he is a lumbering giant mostly used to elicit reactions from the cast around him. Times, Sunday Times
I recall a comely plant, for instance, seven feet high at the end of June, though now slumbering underground, in the Chemin de Saint Jacques -- there, where the steps begin ---- Alone
She smirked at the intriguing fruitlessness of it all and recalled what a lumberingly absurd dream life had been.
In the shrinking light, I imagine brontosaurs lumbering up the hillsides and an orange pterodactyl soaring above me. Down and Delirious in Mexico City
He's big and lumbering and doesn't run that well after the catch, but he doesn't drop many passes.
Agriculture, lumbering, mining and the fish habitat are considered in Chapter 8.
States are lumbering dinosaurs that take years to adapt to change.
I'm getting more used to walking and have nearly overcome the feeling of slogging through mud as I walk and visualizing a lumbering elephant with each step, but I still don't like it.
The internet has undercut the lumbering movements of the fashion industry. Times, Sunday Times
Didn't you see the 263 word lumbering monster of a comment I painfully and needlessly deposited late yesterday evening. Urban Tools: Curatorial Commitment
Like any other titanic, lumbering, inefficient machine, Hollywood studios dangerously pollute the atmosphere.
I love being tall and strong but that is little use today; huge and lumbering are more apt. Times, Sunday Times
The disc closes with "Praise Be to the Man," a twelve-minute opus with more sitars, a lumbering bass line, and amorphous wordless shouts in the background.
Like all lumbering communities Dryden did not present a very advanced or refined state of development in that period, and John Southworth, who was a keen and careful observer of men and things in those times in which he participated, used to say in after years that the Dryden farmer, who occasionally took out of his clearing in those days to the county seat of this or an adjoining county with his ox team a load of lumber, or perhaps a cargo of charcoal, or sometimes a few barrels of potash salts leached from the ashes gathered after the burning of his fallow, when he was interrogated by the tradesmen to who he sold his products as to where his home was, would admit with no little hesitation and embarrassment, that he lived "just in the edge of Dryden. Living in Dryden: Developing Dryden, circa 1825
Deliver us all from filmmaking as lumbering and blinkered as this, a purported homage to female wisdom and bounteousness that is instead stodgy and convictionless.
So now we see him at the lowest ebb of his fortunes, flung down in a moment by a lie from the height to which he had slowly been climbing, having lost the confidence of his master, and earned the unslumbering hatred of a wicked woman. Expositions of Holy Scripture
For two years we had been close; she had been so much my friend, she could not in maiden charity seal for me a so unwelcome fate, I had awakened her slumbering soul with my first look into the sphinx wonder of her eyes. The Kempton-Wace Letters
Origen: Or, Whilst the bridegroom "tarried," and the Word comes not speedily to the consummation of this life, the senses suffer, slumbering and moving in the night of the world; and sleep, as energizing feebly, and with no quick sense. Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
At one point, the pharmacist came lumbering out to instruct an anxious customer in the use of a non-prescription nutritional supplement.
Apart from his moments of glory on the American football field, he is a lumbering giant mostly used to elicit reactions from the cast around him. Times, Sunday Times
What deterred her was not so much the idea of displeasing her lover, who would have looked upon such a journey as bad form, as the vague fear of awakening the slumbering shadow. A Mummer's Tale
The buildings look animate, Elizabeth, as though they are about to begin lumbering forward — perhaps to scrape against the wires in order to remove the barnacles. Apartments | clusterflock
Despite the absence of external ears, the alien's hearing was acute-which was why he was presently shadowing the two humans and their lumbering beast, his mind filled with visions of ornithoid larceny. Snakes Eyes
The lumbering "ships of the desert" are not as cloddish as they seem? Dubai Camel Milk Producers Hope To Export 'Camelicious' Brand (PHOTOS)
You go down to the beach in a group after dark and wait patiently until the turtles turn up - big, lumbering, shelled shapes, dragging themselves over the sand.
I am writing this in a room strewn with wine bottles, dirty clothes, coffee cups, overturned books, and slumbering men. Exit the Actress
At one stage a bleeper went off in the press gallery which woke up one or two slumbering hacks.
Lumbering was an attack operation, as thoroughly strategic and disciplined as a military siege.
Before the eighteenth century is called lumbering, let us set a page of Hume against a page of Hobbes, or a passage out of Berkeley by a passage out of Selden. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
He and his group expected to have a hard go of it in Hokkaido at first, and for a few years crops were poor, but after 1913 their life settled down thanks to the increasing income from lumbering.
Looking to the couch she saw Brandon sleeping, one arm slung protectively across a slumbering Danielle.
No matter what movie you put him in, he's always going to be the same lumbering, thick accented beefcake he's always been.
Not only so, but from this same unslumbering quality of self-love you have to develop regard for others. Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
Sam Lipsyte's third novel, The Ask, is a dark and jaded beast — the sort of book that, if it were an animal, would be a lumbering, hairy, cryptozoological ape-man with a near-crippling case of elephantiasis. The Ask: Summary and book reviews of The Ask by Sam Lipsyte.
But she immediately knows in her heart that her youngest child is not safe and sound and slumbering away in dreamland..
Why are you lumbering around with that lump on your back on this sweltering summer morning? Times, Sunday Times
R.L. comes lumbering out onto the porch, looking old and tired, wearing mud-smeared trousers held up with braces and a checked shirt fraying at the collar.
The lumbering shuttle lazily side slipped from port to starboard and back in futile attempts to shake off pursuit.
First painted in October of 2002, the strange organic planet of then-nameless Felucia depicted sun-catching pod-like plants of enormous height, with an AT-TE walker lumbering in the underbrush.
Otherwise, we have more of the lumbering and vaguely stegosaur-like "stegodons" seen elsewhere in Azeroth and a bizarre mutation of basilisk that they're calling "Diemetradon" (clearly loosely inspired by the Permian-aged Dimetrodon, which, you'll note, isn't a dinosaur, but, rather, a pelycosaurian synapsid). Howard Hughes Looks the Other Way
The model suggests the Cretaceous landscape was filled with large, lumbering creatures that any human with a fast car or bike or maybe even a quick sprint could outpace.
One expects really big heavyweights to be lumbering creatures, powerful but as clumsy as the larger dinosaurs. Times, Sunday Times
What is more than evident is that breakbeat was slumbering away peacefully before the Plump DJs gave it a loud wakeup call with their first release.
Through their viewing windows, you can see pregnant sows lumbering around a barren concrete pen.
We anticipate a slumbering audience, and Samuel explaining a new kind of googlie he's invented. The Sunny Side
The Democratic Party had to shed everything that was slow-moving and lumbering in its ideological presentation.
Why are you lumbering around with that lump on your back on this sweltering summer morning? Times, Sunday Times
The tank was lumbering up a slope.
Early nineteenth-century colonial economies were based primarily on agriculture, lumbering, and fishing.
We were forced to purchase rice and wheat with the money we got from lumbering.
The foot through the motel lifted off like some kind of lumbering rocket ship. Archive 2009-10-01
Word of the venture spread among the miners, who at first could not fathom camels lumbering into their camps, but Laumeister made the caravans a familiar sight.
An archaeopteryx, feathers and all, spreads its wings as you open one page; a lumbering ankylosaur rises from the folds of another, its spiny tail raised threateningly.
The hype has worked, but the reality is a lumbering, unconvincing tale that is filled with one cliffhanging moment after another but never builds into a satisfying thriller.
But with kids today more interested in gloomy mortal Bella locking lips with the moody and misunderstood vampire Edward in the “Twilight” books and movies, vampires are no longer slumbering in coffins. VAMPIRE NEWS FOR OCTOBER 4 | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
A lumbering fish with legs might seem a rather unglamorous ancestor. Times, Sunday Times
When completed, Art started barnstorming the lumbering biplane throughout the Midwest.
Two years ago, when the National Forests were laid out, the lumbering men -- that is, the loggers, sawmill hands, and so on -- found they did not get as much employment as formerly. The Young Forester
This he did by striking out wildly upon the keys in all directions; and at the same time the faithful Clarence, slumberingly waiting for his master's return to earthly matters, burst into full cry. Tutors' Lane
They were succeeded by mastodons, lumbering giants with bigger brains and huge tusks but not much in the way of IQ. Why did Google pay $12.5bn for Motorola Mobile? Search me...
I looked across the fields towards the slumbering village.
A tea-house tucked under it is described curiously in my guidebook as a place, ‘to sit and drink tea or smoke the hubble-bubble, surrounded by slumbering Esfahan manhood.’
You have to admit that there's something fascinating about dinosaurs, those lumbering reptilian giants of a bygone age.
As part of the agreement, Pacific Lumber agrees to strict monitoring of and restrictions on lumbering in its other forest holdings.
The lumbering operations constituted the staple commerce, and the shanties were the winter homes of the greater number of the people. Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear
As we made camp well into our fourth night on the road, I curled up into a little ball, pretending to sleep until I was sure all the others were slumbering.
Those who have been lumbering may easily be known among the others, by sporting a flashy stock or waistcoat, and by being arrayed in "boughten" clothes, procured in town at a most expensive rate in lieu of their lumber. Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America
In ‘The Hippopotamus’, for instance, this most untuneful animal is associated with ‘sound-slumbering music’, an altogether unexpected conjunction.
Through a broken window a few feet away I watched the zombies lumbering outdoors.
With airspeed picked up, the lumbering giant quit moving with the movement of the heavy swells and leaving one crest we ploughed into the next.
He helped computerise the PAYE system - and this apparently is his unique qualification for turning the lumbering government into a lean, mean Internet machine.
In early illustrations, dinosaurs were often portrayed as lumbering, upright, tail-dragging behemoths.
But clearly the lumbering oaf thinks they're all trying it on.
Late in the evening, freight cars rumble past, lumbering along in the wake of the engine's distant whistle.
Apart from his moments of glory on the American football field, he is a lumbering giant mostly used to elicit reactions from the cast around him. Times, Sunday Times
The recipes inside are a grim compendium of lumberingly heavy dinosaur classics - flour-thickened cream sauces, heart - clogging glacages and soubises, the obligatory triumvirate of ‘protein, starch, vegetable’ on nearly every plate.
But the last two seasons, his moves became lumbering.
A city of southern British Columbia, Canada, on Okanagan Lake east - northeast of Vancouver andand lumbering area.
In further bilingual fun, Lucille Ball on an old Jack Benny TV show (rerun Sept. 24, 1981) dubbed lumbering John Wayne "El Klutzo" [kluhts, var. of klots ` log ']. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2
Otherwise, we have more of the lumbering and vaguely stegosaur-like "stegodons" seen elsewhere in Azeroth and a bizarre mutation of basilisk that they're calling "Diemetradon" (clearly loosely inspired by the Permian-aged Dimetrodon, which, you'll note, isn't a dinosaur, but, rather, a pelycosaurian synapsid). Howard Hughes Looks the Other Way
He looked straight ahead and overtook a lumbering lorry.
When you spend a good time alone, like a week, without hardly saying a word to anyone, with hardly any phone calls, you tend to retreat into lumbering bear mode.
Just inside the French doors, a daybed works for sitting by day and slumbering by night.
Sixty years later he was amazed that more timber was being cut than during the bonanza era of lumbering.
a diluted upas-antiar of Macassar, tainting, albeit with no deadly essence, the muggy air that rocks its slumbering branches and rolls away thence along the parapets and in at the windows of the sleepers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860
On the plus side of the ledger, Iraq has many of the structural features of a modern, functioning society - an educated populace, an economic middle class and bureaucratic institutions that, while lumbering and more corrupt than would be conscionable by our standards, still manage to deliver services to the public. Rep. John Sarbanes: Key Tests Loom in Iraq and Afghanistan
Movies made with the full intention of shining during the autumn Academy Awards selection season often come across as graceless, lumbering creatures - disjointed messes that fall victim to their own pomposity and presumptuousness.
But he fought his way back, sent his ships, singly or in couples, to Torbay or Plymouth for a moment's breathing space, but himself held on, with a grim courage and an unslumbering vigilance which have never been surpassed. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes
The dream faded away as Zack slept on, smiling as he hugged a slumbering Curtis tighter.
She had no intention of actually slumbering, just in case she talked in her sleep.
Those that allow themselves in slumbering, will scarcely keep themselves from sleeping; therefore dread the beginning of spiritual decays; Venienti occurrite morbo -- Attend to the first symptoms of disease. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
Look at this prisoner slumbering peacefully beside his _huqqa_ under the suggestive bottle tree (there is something touching in his selecting the shade of a _bottle_ tree: Horace clearly had no _bottle_ tree; or he would never have lain under a strawberry (and cream) tree). Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series
A dark silhouette of a large man was lumbering across the deck toward them.
Playing off allegations that Christie can be something of a bully, Corzine ads talked about him "throwing his weight around" as the phrase was juxtaposed with unflattering shots that exaggerated Christie's midsection and lumbering movement. Reuters: Press Release
Finally, he shows off the pioneer wagon, a huge lumbering cart drawn by oxen.
Till champagne and tripudiation do their work; and all lie silent, horizontal; passively slumbering, with meed-of-battle dreams! The French Revolution
Then the goddess, strange and ominous to see, fashions into the likeness of Aeneas a thin and pithless shade of hollow mist, decks it with Dardanian weapons, and gives it the mimicry of shield and divine helmet plume, gives unsubstantial [640-673] words and senseless utterance, and the mould and motion of his tread: like shapes rumoured to flit when death is past, or dreams that delude the slumbering senses. The Aeneid of Virgil
The tank was lumbering up a slope.
But the humpback gives the lie to the notion that things of great bulk move only by lumbering.
In groups they can poison the atmosphere of an entire pub in seconds, swilling ale, braying, tormenting the barmaid, spilling ale and lumbering against bystanders.
All the light, softened and tinted as it were by the green foliage, rested slumberingly upon the tall gilded La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
Soft candlelight from the hallway played upon the slumbering girl, shining on her hair, and lancing off her stark, milky-white shoulders.
It is possible for the tsaddik, the Rebbe, to awaken powers slumbering within a man. Chabad.org Weekly Magazine [ Sukkot & Simchat Torah 5770 - October 2-11, 2009 ]
One expects really big heavyweights to be lumbering creatures, powerful but as clumsy as the larger dinosaurs. Times, Sunday Times
For as long as I can remember, he has looked like an elephant, heavy and lumbering with big ears and baggy wrinkled skin.
I see people with laptops, cellular phones and PDAs lumbering about like beasts of burden, talking aloud in public like village idiots.
Did you ever hear someone describe a big, lumbering, warm-hearted bear of a guy?
Why didn't you preboard?" the flight attendant says as she sees us lumbering down the ramp at her. Motherhood is Not for Wimps
The capital is a lumbering beast - and we love it that way. Times, Sunday Times
Over the week they were rewarded by the sight of slumbering nurse sharks, moray eels, hawksbill turtles, stingrays, bounteous barracuda, big solitary midnight parrotfish and African pompano.
Within the Abbey, all was slumberingly still; it was after midnight — other than he, no human remained awake. A Lady of His Own
In order to preserve this reticence, unslumbering care and many precautions were absolutely necessary. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1
Over the week they were rewarded by the sight of slumbering nurse sharks, moray eels, hawksbill turtles, stingrays, bounteous barracuda, big solitary midnight parrotfish and African pompano.
Smoke and steam blow sideways from ranks of traction engines at rest after lumbering around the ring of Stithians showground. Country diary: Stithians, Cornwall
It was a peculiar feeling, standing with all that dark latent power just slumbering around her. TICKLED PINK
A lumbering, ill-formed young man, very dark, and uncouth in his speech. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
If you look at this tiny, eight-legged creature under a magnifying lens, you can see it lumbering along like a bear.
Where was the dweller of her daily thoughts, the bright apparition of her unslumbering pillow? The Scottish Chiefs
Finally, he shows off the pioneer wagon, a huge lumbering cart drawn by oxen.
Didst thou not, by the conclusion of my former, perceive the consternation I was in, just as I was about to reperuse thy letter, in order to prevail upon myself to recede from my purpose of awaking in terrors my slumbering charmer? Clarissa Harlowe
Doubtless, her blood is fed by those tropical fires which had slumberingly crept through many generations, but now awaken in her veins; akin to those rivers which mysteriously disappear in the bosom of the desert, and unexpectedly burst forth in springs of pure and living water. Narrative of Sojourner Truth; a Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life;" Also, a Memorial Chapter,
Retired vicars slumbering in deckchairs around village grounds will awaken with a jolt and splutter into their teas when they hear the suggestion that the French invented cricket.
I tried sleeping on the sofa but my grandma led me to the master bedroom and bid me sleep on the bed beside my slumbering grandfather, who was on a mat.
Especially if the city is older than time, built on the slopes of an uneasily slumbering volcano, atop murmuring catacombs, and the eldritch ruins where men fear to tread loom over the unclimbed and unclimbable far side of the volcano, and strange musics or shrieks of nonhuman laughter ring across the ashy slopes when the moon is dark, or, in the case of Mars, moons. MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
As the food trucks came lumbering down the road, passing the city of shacks and tents, the whole camp stood up as one. Times, Sunday Times
As the food trucks came lumbering down the road, passing the city of shacks and tents, the whole camp stood up as one. Times, Sunday Times
Both men spent more time lumbering around and tossing handfuls of salt into the unsquared circle than they did pushing each other around. 2005 April » Japundit Blog
By the way, his trip to the livery stable revived his slumbering ambition in regard to horses, and thenceforth he spent his regular "nooning" in that vicinity, or mounted on one of the coach boxes with the "brother," who chanced to be one of the finest drivers on the list. Three People
It loves to rev and is the exact opposite of a big, lumbering American engine. Times, Sunday Times
Lumbering was an attack operation, as thoroughly strategic and disciplined as a military siege.
I tried sleeping on the sofa but my grandma led me to the master bedroom and bid me sleep on the bed beside my slumbering grandfather, who was on a mat.
In the distance, we could see a herd of elephants lumbering across the plain.
The unslumbering eye of Heaven, however, and the unerring fiat of divine justice, proved less oblivious of this monstrous crime. The Life of Marie de Medicis
Far more satisfying, however, was picking off the slower vessels that had started before us: the lumbering dories, skiffs, and wherries.
They look like huge slumbering monsters, wrapped in blankets of woolly cloud, their dark cheeks streaming with the tears of innumerable freshwater falls.
Far more satisfying, however, was picking off the slower vessels that had started before us: the lumbering dories, skiffs, and wherries.
Conservative lumbering, which is the term used by foresters to designate the opposite of wasteful lumbering, will be described more fully later in this study. Studies of Trees
More Peggy Noonan Read Peggy Noonan's previous columns click here to order her new book, Patriotic Grace The claim of Abdulmutallab's post-Miranda talkativeness followed Republican accusations that the administration has been lax, lumbering and unfocused in its attitude toward terrorism. Question Time Isn't the Answer
Streaming contrails, the Thunderbolts lazily S-turned over the bomber formation - providing an umbrella for the lumbering Boeings.
Their old feeding grounds have been colonised by a new breed of slippery and sleekit new Labourites which are simply too fast and too nimble for the lumbering old Conservatus.
Duties stand for little! all most slumberingly performed! in a slight, listless, heartless manner; as we do every thing, when we are between sleeping and waking. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
The quiet, deep-grey power of the river flows as steadily as time itself, a dance floor where ferries, barges, and sightseeing boats do their lumbering do-si-do past fabled and treacherous rocks. Rick Steves: The Rhine River Rages With History
I had a great time and managed to break only one thing lumbering around their house in my giant costume.
People like you, who religiously send your hard earned money into your huge lumbering index fund, get maximum disvalue on the exchange because of hedge funds. Your Right Hand Thief
He looked straight ahead and overtook a lumbering lorry.
Some board sleek white yachts and luxury cruisers, while others crowd onto lumbering, hooting ferries or the faster yellow and blue hydrofoils called Flying Dolphins.
At the beginning of the film, we see Dracula slumbering in his coffin in the belly of a ship on its way to England.
Well, really, any kind of naval warfare with big, lumbering oared ships. 2009 October « Third Point of Singularity
A large, lumbering man, who fumbled through the ankle-deep water without grace.
I wonder, too, whether these lumbering uses of the term barber originally had any connection with the notion of poor cutting; the connotations of barber in informal speech have not always been the most favorable. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4

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