How To Use Tumble In A Sentence
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He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
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A couple of blokes tried to glass me in the face with a pint tumbler.
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I let the word tumble out of my mouth as I made a vow to stay aware of what I was saying.
Good Fortune
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As Locke and Jean stumbled to their feet, the door on the wall opposite the window slammed open, and in stepped a broad-shouldered man with the slablike muscles of a stevedore or a smith.
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“No, there ain’t no Bowlong,” said the barmaid, taking up a glasscloth and a drying tumbler and beginning to polish the latter.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
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These companies will also sell you mason bee cocoons, if you don't want to wait for the neighborhood bees to stumble across your beehouse on their own.
Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
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Picture a cross between Machu Picchu and greek acropolis, all tumbled down.
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For all their rough-and-tumble, burly-bully image, I haven't yet met one who doesn't go all moony over a good painting.
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The line of stemware and tumblers feature a unique magnesium-based crystal that the company says eliminates the trade-off between clarity and durability in this product category.
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The most popular story concerning her conception was that a golden egg tumbled out of Chaos in the beginning of the world.
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rough-and-tumble politics
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Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
The Volokh Conspiracy » Democracy and the Appeal of Socialism
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For the tumblebug was sincere in his insane doings, and all Philistia honored him sincerely, so that there was nowhere any hope for this people.
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
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She picked herself up and stumbled over to the wall, bracing herself against it.
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Its images tumble, proliferate and cross-hatch; they are extravagant and loopy and defiantly enormous in their ambition, making everything else look petty and piddling.
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She misjudged them and stumbled, but Damin caught her before she fell.
TREASON KEEP
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After a long flight, all you can do is stumble around its pathways and cactus gardens, marvelling at the sheer audacity of it all.
Times, Sunday Times
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To make your life a sound structrure that will serve others and fulfil your own potential, you have to remember that strength, however massive , can't endure unless it has the interlocking supprt of others. Go it alone and you'll inevitably tumble.
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As the water tumbles over the huge boulders forming a great cloak of foam, the dorsal fins of the salmon along their blue/black backs pierce the sudsy water like an emerging submarine.
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I stumbled over the fallen coon who had pivoted me, ducked a swat from a club, dived between a bull's legs, and was free.
Some Adventures With the Police
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We overbalanced and tumbled towards the window, smashing it and falling through.
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If buying a new tumble dryer, think about one with a sensor that switches off when the laundry is ready.
The Sun
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At other times it provokes genuine, childish delight, the wonderment of having stumbled across a secret.
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I couldn't see where I was going most of the time and people used to yell at me as I stumbled randomly, blindly down the street.
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In front of each god was a miniature steel plate and a tumbler the size of a large thimble.
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The tumbledown exterior walls were smothered with moss and ivy, and many of the original features, including fragments from the first-floor medieval loo - known as the garderobe - were strewn around the overgrown garden.
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I don’t know whether this is just a stumble, or the beginning of a real fall, for the bloody-handed, doughfaced Democratic leadership.
House of Representatives rejects war funding bill
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Focusing his firelance on the leading black cat of the two that trail, he discharges the entire lance before the cat staggers and tumbles.
The Magi'i Of Cyador
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Fill a tumbler with more ice cubes and strain in the negroni.
Times, Sunday Times
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And security staff had to rescue a woman who had taken a tumble outside a venue in the city.
The Sun
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Beyond, the Pacific, dim and vast, was raising on its sky-line tumbled cloud-masses that swept landward, giving warning of the first blustering breath of winter.
Chapter 21
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On a rare recording, he can be heard to stumble on the next-to-last line-something unheard-of for one who enunciated so exactingly.
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The company was slow to react when rival cut their prices and sales tumbled.
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The brown water, grass-sheeted at the sides, conceals the bright yellow sand of the bed; when placed in a tumbler it looks clear and colourless, and the taste is perfectly sweet — brackishness does not extend far above Porto da Lenha.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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A long screech was followed by a thud as a matronly passenger tumbled forward, breaking her arm.
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The moist eastern slopes of the Andes tumble to dank, humid, jungle lowlands whose rivers are the highways for transportation.
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You've gotta be the luckiest guy under the sun to stumble on this.
FINAL RESORT
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Swing doors give access to a utility room plumbed for a dishwasher, washing machine and tumble dryer.
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After a long flight, all you can do is stumble around its pathways and cactus gardens, marvelling at the sheer audacity of it all.
Times, Sunday Times
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This point-of-view tale meanders and stumbles in a blurry daze with characters coming and going.
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We clip it back to 1 billion as asset values tumble.
Times, Sunday Times
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I remember during the 8-year Bush Presidency, various friends of mine on the Left eviscerated President Bush on every word stumble, misplaced thought, "unpolitical" correct utterance, and his Texas ways many times.
The Moderate Voice
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Saturate lump sugar with bitters in a thick tumbler or mug.
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The actor botch botched ( ie forgot or stumbled over ) his lines.
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In her earlier, greater work, someone - in the end, among the disasters and the funny bits and the painful stumbles and everyone crashing out in some way - would have come through smiling.
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‘When I stumbled upon the technique of creating montages it was like rediscovering photography’ says Gallant.
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He didn't attempt to swat it a third time, but opened the door, and stumbled downstairs, wailing.
SACRAMENT
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She poured from both into her tumbler, inhaled on her cigar, and sat there silently watching us from her malevolent little eyes.
DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
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Before he could reach it, Jason stumbled on a raised section of the ground and landed on his forearms, struggling to regain his footing.
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Roll the head up, stitch it together and braize it in half a tumbler of Malmsey or Australian Muscat (Burgoyne's), half a cup of very good white stock, some bits of ham and bacon, and a clove of garlic with two cuts.
The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes
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From page one, you know that you have stumbled across a unique voice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those rough and tumble, layer-upon-layer, torn advertising labels made of self-adhesive paper have become a headache for local people to eliminate.
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I took an enormous step backward, too fast, and I stumbled, my hands crablike behind me, gripping tufts of spring grass.
The Bird House
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She stumbles off the escalator and is swept along with the crowd of Asian businessmen and tourists towards the luggage carousel.
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We clip it back to 1 billion as asset values tumble.
Times, Sunday Times
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It tumbles through steep gorges and follows a course through affluent Cheshire towns and countryside before its confluence with the Mersey.
Times, Sunday Times
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An excited group of children tumbled out of school/the bus.
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Upton had just been telling Eric the splendid phrase, "anerhithmon gelasma ponton", which he had stumbled upon in an Aeschylus lesson that morning, and they were trying which would hit on the best rendering of it.
Eric, or Little by Little
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During the orientation picnic, kegs of beer flowed, faculty and students drank together, and I wondered what kind of hellhole I had stumbled into.
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'Christian youth,' but he stumbles upon the term 'new ideas,' and, falling precipitately into a fury, neither evangelical nor angelical, calls Napoleon a sicario (cut-throat), and Vittorio Emanuele an assassino.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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People who easily tumble on land can become quickly disoriented trying to do the same move in the water.
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The past is violently, thrillingly, even painfully restored to us by the texture of a towel, a stumble on a paving stone, the clinking of a teaspoon against a cup and, yes, the taste of a madeleine dipped in tea.
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Every week starts fresh, so do not let your past stumbles affect your future progress!
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He said the lyrics just tumbled out of his head in one continuous, rapid stream.
The Sun
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It has been my experience that hellebores do not make good long term pot plants; it's best to get them in the ground as quickly as you can once they are of a size to handle the rough and tumble world of the garden.
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And by this, I mean the many overlapping discoveries of unvoiced knowledge, feelings and imagination that we stumble upon via images.
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BRITAIN'S lousy spring weather has seen the price of suncream tumble by up to 8.5 per cent, figures showed yesterday.
The Sun
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Our poler dipped his hand down into the water at one point where a waterfall tumbled into the canal and picked up some as if to drink it, but wisely decided to just let the sparkling stuff sprinkle through his fingers and splash back into the canal.
Xochimilco - Up A Lazy River In Mexico City
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His intellectual incoherence should not blind us to the populist possibilities he has stumbled upon.
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But the holes soon become bracketed by trees and tumble down side slopes, across ravines and up hills.
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France passes G20 baton after messy summit FRANCE'S year-long G20 term stumbled to a messy end at the Cannes summit, where President Nicolas Sarkozy's dreams of reforming world finance were torpedoed by the eurozone debt crisis.
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Gonzales tumbled well on floor, showing a double layout, Arabian double front, full-in, and whip to double pike.
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Should the stock market take a big tumble anytime soon, at least one investor is well positioned to benefit.
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Even when black Democratic politicians stumble and engage in borderline corrupt and self-serving feather their own nest antics, they are still regarded as better bets than Republican candidates to be more responsive to black needs.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Black Republicans Peddle Fantasy of Ousting Democrats in November
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Stagger and stumble suggest unsteady or uncontrolledmovement.
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I usually flip back and forth between television stations to check in on who is winning what with the interest of someone who knows they will hear any pertinent information from friends and internet buzz for days following but whose real interest is to see the flustered tech award winners flush and stumble through gratitude they practiced while figuring out how to attach a cumberbund from a rental tuxedo.
Oscars Schmoscars. It's All About The Whiskey And The Twitter.
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Dimitri cringed away from the raging monster and quickly stumbled towards the door.
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He taunted, and I merely stumbled back as I felt more blows upon my side, my front, and my back.
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Suddenly her heel caught in the stairs and she tumbled down, head first, ruining her flowers and expensive hair do.
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Many of Jay Ward's characters and catchphrases have since morphed into pop-culture shorthand: Dudley Do-Right, the clueless Mountie, is shorthand for anybody who stumbles into a situation overconfident he's doing the right thing; Snidely Whiplash, Do-Right's nemesis, for a scenery-chewing villain; the "Waybac" Machine, Mr. Peabody's time-travel system, for a nostalgia flashback; as well as expressions such as "nothing up my sleeve ... presto!" and
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The dairymaid heard the noise, got the churn between her knees, and tumbled over it, spilling all the cream; and yet she jumped up, and gave chase to Tom.
The Water Babies
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Recycle beer or other decorative bottles into tumblers by soaking a piece of garden twine in kero and tying around the bottle at the point you want to separate.
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The airline's shares recorded a further 19% one-day tumble after warning of the impact of higher fuel prices.
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During the brief summer, it is warm enough for a few days or weeks to create meltwater; a few, inconsequential streams tumble down from the glaciers above the valleys.
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Picrochole thus in despair fled towards the Bouchard Island, and in the way to Riviere his horse stumbled and fell down, whereat he on a sudden was so incensed, that he with his sword without more ado killed him in his choler; then, not finding any that would remount him, he was about to have taken an ass at the mill that was thereby; but the miller's men did so baste his bones and so soundly bethwack him that they made him both black and blue with strokes; then stripping him of all his clothes, gave him a scurvy old canvas jacket wherewith to cover his nakedness.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
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I kneed him in the stomach and when he stumbled back I kicked him.
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Wearing a robe, he stumbles out of bed and opens the drapes and shades, gazing down lovingly upon the housekeeper putting Serge's midday snack into his backpack.
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Seated in a large arm-chair, a smoking tumbler of mulled port before him, sat my friend Mike, dressed in my full regimentals, even to the helmet, which, unfortunately however for the effect, he had put on back foremost; a short "dudeen" graced his lip, and the trumpet so frequently alluded to lay near him.
Charles O'Malley — Volume 2
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA @ This GOP pansy attempting to call Clinton a “stumblebum”.
Think Progress » Perry: Anyone Who’s Not A ‘Rank Political Hack’ Realizes That Bush Was A ‘Very, Very Good President’
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The refugees stumbled toward military buses, blinking at the harsh lights.
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He grinned down at her and walked by her giving her a shove making her stumble.
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Homeowners, watching the value of their flats tumble, complain that Tung flip-flopped on his housing policy - without telling the public.
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Too late, Americans began to realize that the Chinese and Russians and North Vietnamese each had their own, not always matching, agendas, and that if South Vietnam fell to the communists, that did not mean that all the "dominoes" of Southeast Asia would tumble as well.
The Mythology of Munich
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Below, the stream tumbles noisily into a large pit broken by an enormous spike of rock.
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Presently, on the path some sixty feet above them, but hidden from them by the mass of tumbled rocks through which they had descended, they heard someone puffing and blowing, a stick striking and slipping on the stones, and weird rays of light stole down the mountain-side, and in and out of the vast blocks with which it was overstrewn.
The History of David Grieve
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Or you accidentally stumble across some unusual snapshots from his overseas " business trip.
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But only the tumbleweeds, sagebrush and cactus, that stood like splintered sentries, were visible in this vast wilderness.
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Bang-the tie fructify a solid one punch to fall on cold Ling Feng's behind and stumble below, but the hands tightly protect the article of brisket and terror it is ordered by a D injure.
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They bolted into the kitchen and before I could even find a weapon big paws were on my chest, I stumbled back, smacked into the counter and got dog slobber all over my neck.
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Don't stint on the pudding... where pudding means tumblers of fine whisky not ice cream or custard.
Times, Sunday Times
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He stumbles up and bumbles through an introduction, reminding her that they've worked in the same shop for four years.
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I have to admit, I was rather hoping he'd stumble on for a few more weeks and take the ID cards down with him.
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The brave Negro troops went forward at a double-quick; the skirmishers were the first to reach the embankments, and were greeted with a shower of bullets which tumbled many headlong and lifeless into the pits.
A School History of the Negro Race in America, from 1619 to 1890, With a Short Introduction as to the Origin of the Race; Also a Short Sketch of Liberia.
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The world is his oyster to discover, as he stumbles on through life towards his future retirement as the ex-leader of the National Party.
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He stumbles through the movie wearing the glazed expression of a hopeless drunk.
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Stumble upon enough ootheca in the basement, and its liable to be the first thing you take to the lab.
Boing Boing
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In an etherized daze, we stumble up, thank our caretaker and falter through halls stinking of sanitized despair.
Habits Die Hard
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Just as it's right that we avoid smug complacency, so we shouldn't tumble into despondency and despair.
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In a distant past, when there were vast territories still unmapped, there were secret places everywhere, though, I imagine, few of them held nostalgic charms for those who stumbled on them accidentally on their way to somewhere else.
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He stumbled into the open exit hole and fired a warning shot into the air.
Times, Sunday Times
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Opened cones need to be tumbled as some seeds adhere to the cone scales.
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[Footnote A: it wuz "tumblebug" as he Writ it, but the parson put the
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I
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Users of Wikipedia do get to recognise which parts are shaky, but the unwise may suddenly stumble into benighted stretches, like some crinkum-crankum byway in old London, where footpads lurked and communicable diseases were offered at low prices.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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The other carabinero jumped for me, but stepped into a wide swing that tumbled him into the canal.
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Machine wash-gentle cycle, cold water, mild detergent, no bleach, keep in pillow case and tumble dry-low heat setting.
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When I opened my mouth, a jumbled mess would tumble out.
Times, Sunday Times
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Shaking my head, I stood shakily to my legs and stumbled over to the water, taking off my sodden shirt and placing it on the ground next to me.
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They stumbled against the sack in which lay Little Claus, and turned it over.
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All kitchens are fitted with an oven, gas hob, cooker hood, fridge-freezer and combined washing machine and tumble drier.
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It's like watching a sober guy walk his drunk friend home; just one stumble and they both hit the sidewalk.
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Tyler came bearing a tray of bootleg whiskey and gin and poured them drinks in squat glass tumblers stained with unwashed fingerprints.
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He stumbled along the bridleway, wiping his eyes, pulling himself together.
LOST SUMMER
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The value of commercial property nationwide tumbled by almost half in a few months.
Times, Sunday Times
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Apologies are forced from our stumblebum government machine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Running along the beach, she stumbled on a log and fell on the sand.
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They learned it was a ‘shagreen patch’ - a classic symptom of TS, and discovered Robert's tumbles from bed were caused by epileptic fits sparked-off by a tuberous lesion - a benign tumour - in his brain.
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The market's latest surge and its propensity to reverse every attempt at an intraday selloff show how investors have become more daring, raising the risk of a near-term stumble as complacency grows.
The Economic Times
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Whereas the code delivered to Bronze Age men simply tumbles the wife in with all the other property, the Catholic catechetical tradition pulled her out of the inventory and makes a rather sharp distinction between the kind of coveting that happens when you've got your eye on the neighbor's Prius and the kind of coveting that happens when you've got your eye on the neighbor's missus.
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High heels, floppy slippers and shoes with slick soles can make you stumble and fall.
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Some thought he was about to insconce himself under the table; he himself alleged that he stumbled in the act of lifting a joint-stool, to prevent mischief, by knocking down
Waverley — Complete
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Some of them stumbled back the way they had come, dragging frozen tanks and trucks out of ice and snowdrifts.
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When Mrs Munson stumbles onto their plot and threatens to notify the authorities, the felonious five decide to do her in.
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According to figures released on Friday, US consumer sentiment tumbled in early July as the stock market drubbing soured Americans' expectations.
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The dollar could tumble and long-term interest rates soar.
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If you stumble across the book, keep it for me.
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But their value tumbled and so he is 500,000 out of pocket.
The Sun
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She let go and the enforcer stumbled back a few paces, getting some distance from her.
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Gone was the safe, familiar home, set amidst a tumble of rolling, well-tilled fields dotted with farm buildings, and grassy meads redolent with the scent of wildflowers.
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The ruling two-party coalition has a mandate until 2012, but its wafer-thin parliamentary majority is crumbling. Few believe it can stumble on much longer.
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We dive, tumble and slide on our rumps down a mud shoot.
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I think the 25-06 would be ok on either, but with the winds and distance for sheep/goats I feel a tad more horsepower is necessary, as you want to drop that animal in it's tracts and not tumble down the mtn and break the head-gear.
Whats the best rifle for antelope hunting? Also whats the best for mountain goat hunting?
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I might break a tumbler to be sure, but I should have the full enjoyment of it while it lasted.
Girls and Women
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I mean, I get mind-dementing hangovers when I party where Irish whiskey is being poured by the tumblerful and this morning was no exception.
Mexican Immigrants in New York City
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It was during his work on the ergot fungus, which grows in rye kernels, that he stumbled on LSD, accidentally ingesting a trace of the compound one Friday afternoon in April 1943.
April « 2008 « Isegoria
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Princess Grace's three children became owners of the tumbledown cottage after her death.
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I uncloak as I land in my yard, and stumble none-too-gracefully to a stop.
Revealers
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They have fled as their native island has tumbled into economic crisis.
Times, Sunday Times
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Above the round glass or iron coverings of coal-cellars the foot-passengers slipped, "ricked" their backs, and swore as they stumbled, if they did not actually fall down, in the filth.
The Mark Of Cain
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To make your life a sound structrure that will serve others and fulfil your own potential, you have to remember that strength, however massive , can't endure unless it has the interlocking supprt of others. Go it alone and you'll inevitably tumble.
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If I hadn't stumbled on a link one day that led me to a snarky sarcastic blonde doing something that resemebled cable access on crack, I would never have made RB one of my daily fixes and BTY, I am one of those conservative viewers you told John Edwards you were trying to "alienate" - obviously it didn't work.
For the Record
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Stealth stumbled over her words, so eager was she to get them out.
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Perhaps it was that competitive spirit which saw him emerge unscathed from so many tumbles during his racing career.
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Decomposition in an untumbled tumbler slows down to a crawl.
Organic Gardener's Composting
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She was obviously enjoying the antics of the jugglers and tumblers illuminated by the flickering light.
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Charles tumbled out of the room, and leaped to his feet.
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All my friends stumbled into the lounge whilst Daisy and me went to the kitchen to get the beers and wine.
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He stumbled slightly on a loose board of one of the bridges.
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Okay, I was just putzing around on the net waiting for R. to wake up and stumbled on to Crazy eBay mom.
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Some loose stones tumbled down the slope behind her.
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But it's not realistic to think the market will crash and prices tumble to the level of two or three years ago, " Wang said.
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Some thought he was about to insconce himself under the table; he himself alleged that he stumbled in the act of lifting a joint-stool, to prevent mischief, by knocking down Balmawhapple.
Waverley
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The lights mysteriously failed, and we stumbled around in complete darkness.
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If you think it will be cool to stumble into lectures wearing track suit bottoms and a hoodie, think again.
Times, Sunday Times
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The monster stumbled back as purple ooze started to spill out of its metallic form.
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One of these days, you'll see me on the news, wandering around downtown Baghdad with a dazed, desperate look in my glinty eyes as I stumble down the streets stopping the passing terrorists as they prepare for a fun-filled day of setting off improvised explosive devices.
Bluemeany Diary Entry
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The mimic finally stumbled upon a vacant hole and squeezed inside; in a last ditch effort at threat display, it extended two sinuous tentacles 180 degrees apart, mimicking a snake!
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Each song is wrapped up in girlish emotion that transcends the love and loss theme that every other female artist seems to stumble into.
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A computer can only wander blindly along the branches of the search tree, until it stumbles across a sequence of moves that may prove beneficial.
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The neckline of the dress is very low, and her brown hair tumbles over her bare shoulders.
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The goat butted him over; Guidry's rowan garland tumbled loose.
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Her hair was a tumble of blonde curls.
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The guard, obviously drunk, stumbled over, hiccuping.
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Most arrived at this condition as industry tumbled in the latter half of the past century; earlier they had been hard-edged, unglamorous communities of strivers.
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Behind her, Tian stumbled forward with a neck-snapping jerk and barked his shin on another rock, one he hadn't seen and the plow had, for a wonder, missed.
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They tumbled up from below, racing to their battle position.
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Prices have tumbled.
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He didn't attempt to swat it a third time, but opened the door, and stumbled downstairs, wailing.
SACRAMENT
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The value of websites that help consumers find cheaper utility suppliers and insurance has also tumbled.
Times, Sunday Times
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Day visited Sir Norman at his nursing home last year and said that despite his failing health, he remembered pretending to stumble after receiving his knighthood from the Queen in 2000, asking: "Do you remember when I tripped?
Norman Wisdom, last survivor of the music halls, dies aged 95
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Yes, well, and if a tumble distorts our ideas of life, and an odd word engrosses our speculations, we are poor creatures, he addressed another friend, from whom he stood constitutionally in dissent naming him Colney; and under pressure of the name, reviving old wrangles between them upon man's present achievements and his probable destinies: especially upon
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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Or they smoke with their head in the tumble dryer and burn incense all the time to disguise the smell.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unless they were only studying eco-friendly disposables, the biodegradable ones, because they are actually not half bad and I can see how they'd be environmentally comparable to cloth nappies regularly bleached and washed at 90 degrees and tumble-dried.
Cloth nappies: The Today Programme
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He held a cut glass tumbler in his hand and gazed at her with dispassionate dark eyes that seemed to miss nothing.
HEAVEN, TEXAS
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Tumbleweed blows through bars that 12 months ago would have been fuggy and packed.
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He's got heaps of photos proving he is a rough-and-tumble Kiwi bloke interested in hunting pigs, the bush, and swannies.
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Be careful not to stumble against that table, or you'll upset the whole bag of tricks.
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His shoes echoing, too, as she stumbled alongside the railings of the gardens.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Someone who wants secretly to sneak off will always stumble somthing ringing.
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I stumbled from the room – aiming for the bourbon bottle.
2009 July « Official Harry Harrison News Blog
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These men who had awakened, laughed dissolvent laughs, and the old muddle of schools and colleges, books and traditions, the old fumbling, half-figurative, half-formal teaching of the Churches, the complex of weakening and confusing suggestions and hints, amidst which the pride and honor of adolescence doubted and stumbled and fell, became nothing but a curious and pleasantly faded memory.
In the Days of the Comet
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You have to give Dole credit for his one stumble.
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The chunky boy asked with a loud bark of a laugh before he shoved Sammy's shoulder hard enough that she stumbled back a step and further into the crates.
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They would stumble about on the queen-size sofa in her room, neither of them really knowing what to do.
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Alternatively, we let inert hanging bug zappers slaughter any bug stupid enough to stumble in with a small shower of crackling blue light.
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They eke out victories now, or inexplicably stumble like they did Tuesday night against 5 - 16 Sacramento.
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She stumbled over the tree root
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This exchange was repeated several times till I poured neat gin into a tumbler and she glugged it happily.
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Lady Gaga have pop sewn up tighter than a tumble-dried Spandex bodysuit, New Yorker magazine.
The Guardian World News
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Soon the neat stores were replaced by faded brownstones and tumbledown colonial houses.
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She tumbled out of bed, the last vestiges of the dream slipping from her mind.
