Tumbling

Examples

• Well it's only a pretty deep flesh-wound; but, then, tumbling and scratching down that place didn't help him much. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Reacting against an empty formalism they are tumbling over themselves to prove how directly they touch daily life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I found, now I had leisure to count them, that there were no fewer than six little Pockets present, in various stages of tumbling up. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• From time to time I heard loud voices in the parlour overhead, and occasionally a violent tumbling about of the furniture. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The conversation had arrived at a crisis to justify Miss Pleasant's hair in tumbling down. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• At this French party, I expected that the men would be tumbling over each other in their too great zeal to show me their national politeness. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• O yes, I constantly expect to see him, returned Herbert, because I never hear him, without expecting him to come tumbling through the ceiling. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I never saw anyone faint, and I don't choose to make myself all black and blue, tumbling flat as you do. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• But in the general tumbling up of the family, his tumbling out in life somewhere, was a thing to transact itself somehow. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• To us some of his difficulties are puzzling only from their simplicity: we do not perceive that the answer to them 'is tumbling out at our feet. Plato. The Republic.
• Was short in his leaps and bad in his tumbling,' Mr. Childers interpreted. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and tumbling, and the jingling of cap and bells? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• While we are straining our eyes into the distance, justice is tumbling out at our feet. Plato. The Republic.
• As to me,' said Tom, tumbling his hair all manner of ways with his sulky hands, 'I am a Donkey, that's what _I_ am. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

Edited by Henry