23 adverbs to describe how to floundering

I felt that I was floundering hopelessly, and stopped.

He wallowed and floundered helplessly.

It was hard going, and when a bare dozen long strokes had been made his burden so dragged him down that he was obliged to stop, and, floundering desperately to keep the white face above water, take a fresh store of breath into his aching lungs.

Never such a storm goes over the mountains that the Indians do not catch them floundering belly deep among the lower rifts.

It'sit's the way they look," he floundered, briefly, but recovered.

"No," he said, gravely; "because you are a lady; because you are soso refined, so graceful, so"he dared not say "beautiful," and consequently he floundered and broke down.

Louder and louder the terrific yells of the outlaws and savages rang out on our flanks; I saw our soldiers in the ravine running frantically in all directions, falling on the log-road, floundering waist-deep in the water and mud, slipping, stumbling, staggering; while faster and faster cracked the hidden rifles, and the pitiless bullets pelted them from the heights above.

It seemed that Marcos de Sarrion was behind the timesthese new and wordy times into which Spain has floundered so disastrously since Charles III was kingfor he gave a deeper attention to the matter in hand than most have time for.

When he ventures upon such topics he flounders dreadfully, and rather reminds us of an artist who should attempt to paint miniatures with a mop.

Sulla's whole soul must have recoiled from the coarse manners of the man under whom he first won distinction, and, while he scorned his motives, he must, as he saw him gradually floundering into villainy, have felt the serene superiority of a natural genius for vice.

After floundering about heroically but hopelessly through the introductory chapter of the first French grammar, she gave up the polite tongue in despair, consoling herself with the reflection, that speaking bad French was worse than speaking no French at all.

The Colonel floundered madly through the slush and mud, calling and gesticulating, "I've got the thief!"

We threw in bundle after bundle of grass, till we had the yielding sand covered with a thick passage of firmly bound fascines, on which the hathee, staggering and floundering painfully, managed to reach firm land.

This induces a loose, gambling propensity, which, indulged in to excess, often leads to ruin and involvement, and, if absolute beggary is deferred, causes numerous victims to be perpetually floundering in debt, difficulty, and disgrace.

And if Wayeeses wanted game to try his mettle and cunning, there were the big fat seals barking on the black rocks, and he had only to cut between them and the sea and throw himself upon the largest seal as the herd floundered ponderously back to safety.

They were floundering on at a trot through mud and mire, boldly regardless of danger; but it seemed to the English eyes of the travellers impossible that such a vehicle should ever be able to reach Libokavo, to which it was bound.

" Once more with an utterly unexpected shift she left him floundering, speechless.

Two or three others, dragging a thin, stiff wire rope, floundered unsteadily across the deck.

You must imagine snow waist-deep, the heights furrowed with trenches, the frosty balsam stillness split with screaming shells and shrapnel and the rat-tat-tat of machine guns; imagine yourself floundering upward with winter overcoat, blanket, pack, rifle, and cartridge-beltany one who has snow-shoed in mountains in midwinter can fancy what fighting meant in a place like this.

You can believe I floundered alongside, and oh, such sweetness as trilled out into the clear air!

He strolled around as though walking on hard ground in places where he floundered woefully without them.

As he began to flounder ashore through the mud, I started to flounder out into it, going over the same course which the Chinese had taken in landing me and in returning to the junk.

There being no provision for the study of divinity, Schiller was put into law, with the result that he floundered badly for two years.

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