Shuffled
[ʃʌfəld]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Shuffle
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Examples
- He got up hastily, and saying, By the way, I must speak to Wright about the horses, shuffled quickly out of the room. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And he shuffled across the room to a cupboard, from which he took a little old case containing jewels of some value. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It is wonderful, though, he said to himself as he shuffled out of the room--it is wonderful that she should have liked him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The ground heaved and swelled like a rolling sea, and several houses, still standing, were shuffled and moved some yards out of their places. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- For two streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I recalled, too, that the one-eyed gentleman had shuffled forth against the wall when I was the innocent cause of his being turned out. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She pushed the candle impatiently away; and once or twice as she feverishly changed her position, shuffled her feet upon the ground; but this was all. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- They shuffled and lied--said that they found it on the moor on Tuesday morning. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I shuffled and equivocated, you know. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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