Stumbling

Examples

• And that stumbling-block he never got over. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A great warrior and yet a stumbling little child. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• But the one great stumbling-block lay in my want of capital. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Not stumbling on the means after all, I was fain to go out to the adjacent Lodge and get the watchman there to come with his lantern. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Brute-like, he saw without perceiving; and, stumbling forward, poured out a tumbler of brandy, and drank half of it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And so he started, stumbling back through the thick and matted underbrush in the direction that he thought the cabin lay. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• But by-and-by we shall meet with plenty of stumbling-blocks, no doubt. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Let him be prepared to be assailed by the odours of undrained gutters, ditches, and roads called streets, and escape, if he can, stumbling and falling into them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He went through the wood, stumbling and feeling his way to the Mill. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And was he after all to become a mere stone of stumbling and a rock of offence? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Stumbling against a door on the landing, he rapped at it with his knuckles. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• His intellect reaches no standard I can esteem: there is a second stumbling-block. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• On the man's stumbling into the room, Lizzie rose to leave it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• With wild cries and desperate energy she leaped to another and still another cake; stumbling--leaping--slipping--springing upwards again! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• To the non-expert, however, this perfected form is a stumbling block. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

Editor: Theresa