"Stumblingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by showing everything she had and then been so sick that she had completely ruined one of the muslin curtains. The men had at least the decency to go into the street; Lorilleux and Poisson, feeling their stomachs upset, had stumblingly glided as far as the pork-butcher's shop. It is easy to see when a person has been well brought up. For instance, the ladies, Madame Putois, Madame Lerat, and Virginie, indisposed by the heat, had simply gone into the back-room and taken ...
— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola
... the American people. This is the very darkest day that we have seen. But we believe in ourselves and we believe in our own kind, and believe in a something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness,—slowly, stumblingly, but, as ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane
... to leave his seat, the steely fingers on his wrist ran up his forearm and pressed down hard upon a nerve-center. The pain was almost unbearable, and for the moment his arm was paralyzed. A quick jerk brought him to the ground. As he alighted, stumblingly, Maku caught him by the other arm. He was held in such a way that for the moment it seemed futile to struggle. Arima, meantime, spoke rapidly in Japanese to Maku. Perhaps he, as commander of the situation, was giving precise orders as to what was to ...
— The Girl and The Bill - An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure • Bannister Merwin
... bellowing. There was an explosion. Flames sprouted everywhere. The three men ran stumblingly. But even as they ran, the ...
— Space Platform • Murray Leinster |
