38 collocations for fumbles

Late that night a small square man, in a wet overcoat, fumbled his way into the damp entrance of the house, stumbled up the cracking stairs, unlocked, after many languid efforts, the door of the two rooms, and falling over the hair-trunk, slept until the morning sunbeams climbed over the balcony and in at the window, and shone full on the back of his head.

He fumbled about a moment and then drew forth a paper.

Andy climbed over the window sill and stood fumbling his cap.

but he really is crazy?" He led the way up an outside staircase at the end of the Brick Row, and, after fumbling a long time in several deep pockets, produced a huge rusty iron key, and unlocked the door at the head of the stairs.

For on a pass from quarter to left half, the latter, one Joel March of our acquaintance, fumbled the ball, dived quickly after it, and landed on the Yates left guard, who had plunged through and now lay with the pigskin safe beneath him!

"His Excellency knows not what he asks," said the patron, fumbling the coin between a finger and thumb; "our Genevese citizens love to keep house till the sun is up, lest they should break their necks by walking about the uneven streets in the dark, and it will be two long hours before a single bureau will open its windows in the town.

He fumbles the cross on his breast, adjusts his jewels, scratches his cosmos, plays the devil's tattoo, gets up nervously and looks behind the throne, holds his breath to listen.

Meeker returned his gaze in a disinterested manner, swaying in his chair with the motion of the ship, and fumbling his shell crucifix, as if it was a talisman to guard him against danger.

It was a bit hard when you had been thinking you had played your part fairly creditably to discover you had been fumbling your cues wretchedly all along.

He sank his hand into his pants pocket and fumbled a solitary dime.

Here," he fumbled out a square envelope and Cake took it between her hands.

He fumbled the fastenings on his coon-skin coat, tried to pull his cap lower and looked altogether unhappy.

If you're slow at it, if you fumble your fingers, and tie knots in your tongue, and stop to think about your 'going to,' you'll find maybe that 'going to' has gone before you make up your mind, and the only thing 'going to' will be you and your detachment; and its Kingdom Come you'll be 'going to' at that.

I fumbled round the glass, which was large, with handsome brass sconces, to find the blind cord.

He bowed low and turned to fumble the sweet, dried grasses in Surry's manger; and beneath his coarse shirt the feel of the rawhide was sweeter than the embrace of a loved woman.

Annie Oombrella pattered along beside him, fumbling his hand and trying not to cry.

"I don't mean you, Mr. Saunders," she added sharply, as the little clerk set the suitcase down abruptly and stepped forward, again fumbling his much-fumbled straw hat.

"] Charming Billy, fumbling the latigo absently, felt a sudden belligerence toward her father.

Some of the actors fumbled their lines as if they had never read English before.

As he fumbled the lock, a gust of wind came along, wrenched the door from his hand and swung it open.

John fumbled round his neck for the bit of black cord on which he kept two keysthe key of his room while he was away, and the key of the box itself.

The old man fumbled the note in a daze, but what chiefly interested me was the amazed look on the faces of the little crowd.

One hand rested in his pocket, and as his fingers fumbled some object there, he suddenly recalled the knife Sexton had found in the alley.

He fumbled the papers once more, and frowned.

Here," continued he, fumbling in his pocket"here's a picayune.

38 collocations for  fumbles