"Not as weak-willed blunderers have we under-taken the fearful risk of this war.

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

" "Some blunderers, you men," Miss Grimes sighed.

His excellency, Prince Boris, evidently did not wish, or had no time, to bother with blunderers; if they got in his way so much the worse for them.

III. Mowbray and Tourville, the two greatest blunderers of the four, I allow to be acquainted with the widow and nieces, from the knowledge they had of the colonel.

"Have you neglected to remark that since the blunderer failed to find the Council Chamber that night, when his raid at the Red Moon netted him only a handful of coolie gamblers and drug-addicts, he has left us to our own devices?"

It has been the fashion, set by such presumptuous blunderers as Warburton and such formal prigs as Gifford, to deny our Laureate the possession of those ethereal attributes of invention and fancy which play about the creations of Shakspeare, and constitute their exquisite charm.

Dear blunderers, I am one of you.

But avoid calling us ugly names; we may be stubborn and we may be blunderers, but we love you more than aught else in the world, and once you have won your partnership we shall all be welcoming you.

And then the exquisite self-conceit of the blunderer!

You are merely an inconsiderate blunderer, to say no more.

It was indeed a fatal day for Mr. Jeffrey, when he degraded both himself and his original coadjutors, by taking into pay such an unprincipled blunderer as Hazlitt.

"When I attended her about seven in the evening, she had hardly spoken to me, when she started, and a blush overspread her sweet face on hearing, as I also did, a sort of lumbering noise upon the stairs, as if a large trunk were bringing up between two people. 'Blunderers!' said she.

Look at the characters in the Bible, "resisting unto blood, striving against sin"; what blunderers they were to do that!...

But, in obvious absurdity most strangely overlooked by the writer, all these blunderers are outdone by a later one, who says: "Need and dare are sometimes used in a general sense without a nominative: as, 'There needed no prophet to tell us that;' 'There wanted no advocates to secure the voice of the people.'

The outward reason has the world in store, Regenerates passion with the stress of want, Regenerates knowledge with discovery, Shows sly rapacious self a blunderer, Widens dependence, knits the social whole

He classes himself as one of the blunderers he would portray, as having the faults and foibles he finds in others.

The small lady gave the blunderer a grave, brief, now-you-have-done-it glance and looked down.

I have been a terrible blunderer, but I mean well; I misread your eyes.

"Many women, even of the best," he told her, "would have resorted to little feminine ways of humbling such a blunderer as I have been: they would have spurned him for weeks; made him come to them on his knees; perhaps have thought that his brutality of a moment outweighed all his love.

Was he a social blunderer, and weren't a Virginia gentleman's manners to be trusted in England without leading-strings?

But four months later he was lamenting Washington's "fatal indecision," and by inference was calling him "a blunderer."

Should the two bundles not correspond, a chest is missing somewhere, and woe betide the blunderer!

A blunderer would have destroyed or hidden it, thereby warning Garcia that he was being looked after, and causing him to be more careful about his hiding places.

The rock ledges, among which we were clambering, were in many places fearful spots enoughplaces where a stumble or a divagation of the foot but six or eight inches from the narrow path would have precipitated the blunderer to assured and inevitable destruction.