Use stumble in a sentence
Sentences ending with stumble
- The scholar is said to be the torch-bearer, transmitting the increasing light from generation to generation, so that the feet of all, the humblest and the loveliest, may walk in the radiance and not stumble. [4]
- Indeed, I could not but admire the dexterous turn of the wrist which served Mr. Cooke to swing his leaders into the circle and up the hill, while the liveried guard leaned far out in anticipation of a stumble. [9]
Sentences containing stumble two or more times
- If he were to gain the heights, only to stumble in the sight of all men, to stumble and fall. [9]
More example sentences with the word stumble in them
- The corduroy roads which our horses stumble over through the mud, they make as well as march on. [9]
- It is easy to turn a good talker into an insufferable bore by contradicting him, and putting questions for him to stumble over,--that is, if he is not a bore already, as "good talkers" are apt to be, except now and then. [6]
- Presently something appeared to trip or stumble inside of the infernal mechanism. [6]
- To prove that this is true, I will open it at random and copy the page I happen to stumble upon. [5]
- Of all consolations these two are the best: The consciousness of wishing the right however much we may err and stumble through human weakness, and prayer. [10]
- In reading to themselves they glide over these words, in reading aloud they stumble over them. [4]
- In one of the shops I had the luck to stumble upon a book which has charmed me nearly to death. [5]
- If thou shouldest stumble on the nameless trail, The trail that no man rides, Lift up thy heart, Behold, O son of man, thou hast a helper near! [11]
- If they look straight ahead of them they walk straight, but then they get blind by-and-by; if they look round them and get open-eyed, their feet stumble and they fall. [11]
- They stumble and stop, or get interrupted, change a word, begin again, miss connections of verbs and nouns, and so on, till they blunder out their meaning. [6]
- And she'll say, perhaps, Don't shoot your villain this time, you've shot three or four already in the last six weeks; let his mare stumble and throw him and break his neck. [6]
- Taking to the open aisles and patches of the sage, he walked guardedly, careful not to stumble or step in dust or strike against spreading sage-branches. [13]
- Occasionally, you stumble on a stone house. [5]
- When the end of all things at Washington came for Sally, these two men united to bear her up, that her feet should not stumble upon the stony path of the hard journey she had undertaken. [11]
- I am not noisy, like the ocean, except occasionally when I am rudely interrupted, or when I stumble and get a fall. [6]
- I rode until my horse could stumble no farther, and then I took the saddle for a pillow and slept on the bare ground. [11]
- It was a kind of offset to his premonitions and to the peril over which he might stumble at any moment. [11]
- A man could hardly stumble into such a variety of queer vicissitudes in any other country. [5]
- I delight in following my reason, yet I have been of the motes that stumble in the sunlight. [11]
- I will not blame you, for even the wisest has his hours of folly, but on this occasion you have certainly overlooked that which is at hand, in gazing at the distance, and I see you stumble in consequence. [10]
- But later he appeared to stumble into expressions of admiration for her, as though he was carried off his feet and had been stunned by her charm. [11]
- Your crooked paths also lead to the goal, and perhaps one is less likely to stumble in them; but straight ways suit me better, and I think I have already found the right one. [10]
- They must stumble along as best they can, alternately attracting and repelling, until by right of years they join that serene company which is altogether beautiful. [4]
- But more than all, I wished that old Diogenes, groping so patiently with his lantern, searching so zealously for one solitary honest man in all the world, might meander along and stumble on our party. [5]
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