"Sing a song, Bibbs!" cried one voice; "Where's your neck-tie?" asked another; "What are you grinning at?" demanded a third; while the object of these pleasantries stood, with a vacant smile upon his face, nervously fumbling with his watch-chain.

" "But, messire," quoth Fidelis, faint-voiced, and fumbling awkwardly with the buckle, "indeed II have no art in swimming.

They went up the cliff in a long file, clawing their way, cursing the steepness, now and then one or another of them fumbling uncertainly, close to a slip and a fall.

Hurriedly he fumbled for his note-book, and there, in that house of death, with his paper propped against the wall, he wrote a two-hundred-word description; a description so photographically exact that to this day it is preserved in the Buffalo police archives as a perfect model.

"I know it," she fumbled desperately.

" He walked out into the hall, and reaching the front door fumbled clumsily with the catch.

For a moment, I fumbled with the knots, weakly; but they were wet and hard, and I could do nothing.

The woman gave a little cry of alarm, and confusedly fumbled for the door.

Jump!" shrieked Aunt Kipp, thrusting her head out of the window, while she fumbled madly for the door-handle.

And then Travers showed that he was a thoroughbred, even though he could not ride, for he hastily fumbled for his cigar-case, and when the field came pounding up over the bridge and around the hill, they saw him seated nonchalantly on his saddle, puffing critically at a cigar and giving Satan patronizing pats on the head.

objected Sylvia, peevishly, fuming and fumbling helplessly before the baffling quality of her desires.

The child used to watch him, fascinated, as he fumbled endlessly at the fastenings of his violin-case, and put back the top with uncertain fingers.

she answered, and fell back into her chair again, her hands fumbling feebly at her bag.

It was both or neither, and treading water he fumbled frantically in his pockets for his knife.

As I gazed then I saw this man reappear in front of the fire, fumbling furiously with both his hands in his bosom, and then with a spring he disappeared up the chimney, so that I could only see his shoes and half of his black calves as he stood upon the brickwork at the side of the grate.

Outside he fumbled grotesquely at the silky mane and climbed weakly into the saddle.

I fumbled idiotically and ineffectually with the key, and all the time I stared, with a fear that was like insanity, toward the Barriers.

More than perplexed, concerned, distressed from his very inability to fathom the new mood, the man again brought the team to a walk, fumbled with the reins impotently.

But I do know that the entire book developed, howsoever helterskelter, and after fumbling in no matter how many blind alleys, from that first memorandum about the troubling window of Ageus.

" Meantime the lawyer had been fumbling in the box, and now drew out the genuine will.

Outside he fumbled grotesquely at the silky mane and climbed weakly into the saddle.

She knelt down at his side and helped him count the money, over which his clumsy hands were fumbling pathetically, so that there might be no error in the counting.

The boy fumbled sulkily at the leaves of a magazine that lay on the table.

The flesh-pots of Calcutta are wonderfully pleasant after jungly fare, and there is something rather nice about a big airy bedroom with a bathroom to correspond, hot water at will, and an ayah to look after one's clothes, after the cramped space of a tent, a zinc bath wiggling on an uneven floor, and Autolycus fumbling vaguely among one's belongings.

Poor Tilly checked her sobs by a vigorous effort; but tears continued to flow, and she fumbled vainly for her handkerchief to dry them.