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Sentences ending with stumbled

Then striking him with one of the clubs, it broke in pieces; the bear stumbled. [5]
One of them stumbled. [2]
At the doorway of the house Orlando Guise stumbled. [11]
Five miles or more they went so, and then the mare stumbled. [11]

More example sentences with the word stumbled in them

He took it with him from the Southern Hotel, when he went to walk, and read it over and again in an unfrequented street as he stumbled along. [5]
When the nuts were all gone, he stumbled upon some inviting books in a closet, among them one about the etiquette of the English court. [5]
I stumbled my way in the dark among the ranks of canvas scenery, and stood on the stage. [5]
Long afterwards I was hunting out a paper of Dumeril's in an old journal,--the "Magazin Encyclopedique" for l'an troisieme, (1795,) when I stumbled upon a brief article on the vibrations of the spire of Strasburg Cathedral. [6]
At moments he was at once bewildered and inebriated by the rare delicacy of fabric of the woman whom he had somehow stumbled upon and possessed. [9]
Presently he stumbled upon Huck Finn the Red-Handed. [5]
One stumbled over unseen passengers on the lounges, or sitting on kits on the floor. [9]
The puncheon rose under me, I stumbled, and it fell again. [9]
He leaped over two, five, ten graves--then he stumbled over a head-stone concealed by the snow. [10]
It was as though Ferens had stumbled and been badly hit in his fall, but there were no signs of permanent evil in his countenance. [11]
Rostov did not think what this call for stretchers meant; he ran on, trying only to be ahead of the others; but just at the bridge, not looking at the ground, he came on some sticky, trodden mud, stumbled, and fell on his hands. [2]
But this time they stumbled upon the misfortune of an honest Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. James Guthrie), and he spoiled everything. [5]
And pretty soon there was a regular storm, and in the middle of it a man that was running aft stumbled and fell and sprained his ankle so that he had to lay up. [5]
He stumbled into the saddle with a moan. [11]
I turned towards the north, and slipped and stumbled along. [4]
He stumbled, and the gun went off. [11]
But George was the first person she stumbled on in the hall, so she took it out of George. [5]
The first time that he came, roused by the grating noise as he sat below, he stumbled in the very centre of the cell, and fell upon his knees. [11]
As she staggered, stumbled, through the village, Yusef, the drunken ghaffir, saw her. [11]
She looked, then stumbled forward with a cry. [11]
We stumbled over stick-bombs and unexploded shells. [9]
Presently, a few steps up the almost deserted street, I stumbled on Boggs, and asked him where he was going. [5]
Presently, a few steps up the almost deserted street I stumbled on Boggs and asked him where he was going. [5]
Two or three steps down shuffled the Chinaman; then, as it were by accident, he stumbled and fell, the tray with the beautiful china crashing down to the feet of Joel Mazarine, followed by the tumbling, chirruping Li Choo. [11]
Maybe a merciful Spirit sees how, left alone, we should have stumbled and lost ourselves in our own gloom, and so gives us a new temper fitted to our needs. [11]
He would not soon have remembered this, such was his state of forgetfulness, had he not halfway up the hill stumbled upon his groom, who had been to look for him in the town and was returning to the inn. [2]
Gardiner had his shoulders and I his legs; in an unfortunate moment I stumbled and the patient fell heavily on the bed in an agony of torture. [5]
His brain had seemingly ceased to work, and he stumbled at the curb, for he was very tired. [9]
As he stepped past the generals in the crowded hut, feeling embarrassed as he always was by the sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and stumbled over it. [2]
A citizen stumbled over that head, and drove his own head into the back of somebody in front of him, who turned and knocked down the first person that came handy, and was promptly laid out himself by that person's friend. [5]
On the pavement outside the house, Krool staggered, stumbled, and fell down; but he slowly gathered himself up, and turned to the doorway, where Byng stood panting with the sjambok in his hand. [11]
But there were other carriages at the door, there was a pile of trunks on the veranda, which he nearly stumbled over, although his foot struck nothing, and the chairs were full, and people were strolling up and down the piazza. [4]
After a moment or two, as he stumbled on, he said it again--"Me, I am a philosopher! [11]
On its being opened the bald and toothless Abednego stumbled in with the word that immediately after Angele and her father came aboard the Honeyflower some fifty halberdiers suddenly appeared upon the Couperon. [11]
I stumbled upon one curious character in the Island of Mani. [5]
He was standing on the pavement, when an awkward express employee, carrying a brick weighing a hundred pounds, stumbled and let it fall on the bummer's foot. [5]
Tim Foley stumbled on him, and he put up as good a fight with his fists as any man I ever saw. [9]
Thus he stumbled on Bagovut's corps in a wood when it was already broad daylight, though the corps should long before have joined Orlov-Denisov. [2]
Once she stumbled on a stranger with a game leg; and she was the most grateful thing in this world--but it was the wrong leg, and it was days and days before she could leave her bed. [5]
A miner does not know where to look for such leads, but they are often stumbled upon by accident in the course of driving a tunnel or sinking a shaft. [5]
In ten minutes more we struck into a beautiful road, and unlike some others we had stumbled upon at intervals, it led in the right direction. [5]
While they were looking, Hanuman stumbled, and a small ridge of red sandstone twenty miles long was jolted loose and fell. [5]
He was soon led on by the malicious dwarf to smoke himself into a relapse, and in that state stumbled upon a settee where he slept till morning. [12]
How long I kept this course, and how far I went on, I do not know; but suddenly I stumbled against an ill-placed tree, and sat down on the soaked ground, a trifle out of breath. [4]
But it kept its distance, as only a mountain can, while I stumbled and slid down the rocky way. [4]
She knew what it was that had wetted her foot--blood--noble, human blood--and every obstacle against which she stumbled was a human body. [10]
I stumbled on it by luck, after I had given up. [13]
While disputes and intrigues were going on about the future field of battle, and while we were looking for the French--having lost touch with them--the French stumbled upon Neverovski's division and reached the walls of Smolensk. [2]
I stumbled right in on him without expecting anybody was there. [5]
A distant man in a yellow hunting shirt stumbled, and was drowned in the tangle as in water. [9]
An aged peasant, in a sudden fit of weakness, had stumbled on the road, and, in falling, had struck his head on a stone and had lost consciousness. [11]
I stumbled forward in a daze to where the Colonel stood, and the cheering from the ranks was a thing beyond me. [9]
One day, however, I stumbled upon the cause of this fermentation, to wonder that I had not discovered it before. [9]
A week later, I stumbled upon Backus--arrayed in the height of fashion-- in Montgomery Street. [5]
All my life I have stumbled upon lucky chances of large size, and whenever they were wasted it was because of my own stupidity and carelessness. [5]
He staggered to his feet with a terror-stricken cry, stumbled down the aisle, through the front door, and out into the night. [11]
With a sigh he turned to his law-books again, and sat for a while staring steadfastly at a section of the 'Act of Consolidation of the Northeastern Railroads' which he had stumbled on that morning. [9]
She saw that he stumbled as he walked, and that, every now and then, he lifted his head with an effort and threw it back, and threw his shoulders back also, as though to assert his physical manhood. [11]
The night when he had stumbled into the cafe in Dalton Street might well have been termed the nadir of Hodder's experience. [9]
His one desire had been to get away, out of hearing, and he pressed forward over the tiled pavement until he stumbled against a stone balustrade that guarded a drop of five feet or so to the lawn below. [9]
The man who had been ordered to go for ammunition stumbled against Pierre. [2]
And, as she gazed, Lassiter's horse stumbled and fell. [13]
His head bent forward, his shoulders thrust out, he stumbled towards her. [11]
A mad act; for the horse stumbled, and in recovering himself plunged forward heavily. [11]
I stumbled and fell on some one. [5]
We followed it, feeling carefully, and at length, when we had suffered all that we could bear, we stumbled on to a dry ridge. [9]
He shut his eyes and moved towards it, but a voice stopped him, and it said, "Come away, come away," and two arms folded him round, and as he went back from the shore he stumbled and fell, and . [11]
I entered the door of the church, and stumbled upon a body. [11]
This longing to distinguish themselves, to maneuver, to overthrow, and to cut off showed itself particularly whenever the Russians stumbled on the French army. [2]
Objects appeared more dim, the noise less, the path more rugged and uneven, for sometimes she stumbled, and became roused, as it were, in the effort to prevent herself from falling. [12]
At that instant Dennis stumbled out of the house, blind with smoke, his clothes aflame, carrying a man in his arms. [11]
But walking one day in the fields about the city, I stumbled over a fragment of broken masonry, and lo! [6]
It was so dark that I stumbled right on a dim figure almost before I could get out a protecting word. [5]
The boat, urged by his companions' oars, had already moved forward, and he stumbled, the brown cap falling from his woolly head in the act. [10]
Then he moved away to take off his hat, and, as he did so, stumbled slightly. [11]
He was too athletic to step carelessly, and yet he stumbled and giggled. [11]
So it was at Krasnoe, where they expected to find one of the three French columns and stumbled instead on Napoleon himself with sixteen thousand men. [2]
My head swam as I stumbled up the stairs and fumbled at the knob, when I heard voices raised inside, and the door was suddenly and violently thrown open. [9]
But I thought, as I stumbled along in the dismal actuality, that, if I ever got out of it, I would write a letter to the newspapers, exposing the whole thing. [4]
Some few happy and glad days were at that time vouchsafed to them in the old well-known forest; but on the ride home Margery's palfrey stumbled close without the city gates on the frozen ground. [10]
Once she stumbled, an' we knowed it wasn't an ant-bear's hole she'd found in the veld, and that she'd been hurt. [11]
The tall youth, against whom he stumbled, seized his thin neck with his hands and, yelling wildly, fell with him under the feet of the pressing, struggling crowd. [2]
Thus; by no accountable process of reasoning, he stumbled into the path which was to lead him to one of the widest and brightest of his vistas, the secret of eternity hidden in the Parable of the Talents! [9]
It was by accident that I stumbled on this bit of archaeology, and as I have a good many namesakes, it may perhaps please some of them to be told about it. [6]
But all of a sudden I stumbled on the very thing, just by luck. [5]
I recalled oddly a story of a peasant who, yearning for the great life, had stumbled upon an empty palace, its tables set with food in golden dishes. [9]
Mr. Jones said: "Tom wasn't at home, yet, so I gave him up; but I stumbled on him and Huck right at my door, and so I just brought them along in a hurry. [5]

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