Shuffling

Examples

• I says, frank and open--no shuffling, mind you, Captain! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• At last Mr Flintwinch came shuffling down the staircase into the hall, muttering and calling 'Affery woman! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• After that knock they heard a movement below, and somebody shuffling up towards the door. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Mr. Guppy, slightly nudging his friend to take another look, makes a shuffling bow to Mr. Tulkinghorn, who returns it with an easy nod. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• De Bracy and I will instantly go among these shuffling cowards, and convince them they have gone too far to recede. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Suddenly I heard the shuffling noise at my right, and, looking, saw another pair of eyes, evidently approaching from an intersecting corridor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• A faint shuffling sounded behind me, and as I cast a hasty glance over my shoulder my blood froze in my veins for the thing I saw there. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• A shuffling step was soon heard on the stone floor of the hall, and the door was opened by an old man, bent and dried, but with keen eyes. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• At this juncture, shuffling is heard in the hall, and tapping is heard at the dining-room door. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Ten minutes had not succeeded the promulgation of this decree when Rosine's French pantoufles were again heard shuffling along the corridor. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I will either be all or nothing to a man like Robert; no feeble shuffling or false cant is endurable. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We turned down it, and as we went shuffling through the sleet, I heard the clocks strike half-past five. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• To be present at the election of a Protector, and to give our yea or nay for his shuffling Grace of----? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I shall let him off easily, you know, said Mr. Brooke aside to Dorothea, shuffling away very cheerfully. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Editor: Pratt