As I fumble for another, the thing shines out again.

In the second inning the Bostons started as bravely as they had in the first, as Gardner, the first batter, was safe on Fletcher's fumble.

Snodgrass was safe in the sixth on Wagner's fumble, but was doubled off first when Murray drove a line hit straight to Stahl.

In the eighth, with two out, Snodgrass was safe on Wagner's fumble.

While Fletcher was getting Gardner out of the way, Speaker scored and Lewis reached home on Doyle's fumble of Stahl's grounder.

Now Giles, meeting Beltane's wide stare, must needs cough and fumble with his bow, whiles Roger stood with bowed head and fingers tight-clenched upon his quarter-staff: whereat, fierce-frowning, Beltane spake.

I saw Mr. Sims fumble under his cloak and take a quick step backwards.

Kurt saw the girl fumble with the door on her side, open it, and stagger out of his sight.

You see from these conning towers how they call and find each other in the slender gorges; how they fumble in the meadows, needing the sheer nearing walls to give them countenance and show the way; and how the pine woods are made glad by them.

She began to fumble in the pretty workbag she carried.

He withdrew his hand to fumble in an inner pocket.

She found the key, and in the darkness of the porch she began to fumble for the lock.

"I found that it saved time not to have to fumble all through a portemonnaie for a ten-cent piece.

[Organ of touch] hand, finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler, antenna; palpus^. V. touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble; twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the fingers over; manipulate, wield; throw out a feeler.

He replaced the drawer and continued to fumble among the clothing it contained.

" He was so surprised that his eyeglass dropped, and he had to fumble to find it, so by that time I had begun to talk to old Colonel Blake, who was at the other side of me.

But recollection of that fumble crushed down each time the inclination to yield, and one after another the nearly obliterated lines passed under foot.

The coolest hand may fumble with the gears at such a moment, and it is surprising how difficult it is to work them neatly when every second may be a matter of life or death, when a stopped engine may settle the fate of everyone in the car.

Then the man at the bat reached first on a scratch hit and a fumble, and there seemed to be a small rift in the clouds which had lowered over the heads of the Yale freshmen so long.

If you fumble things, or make a noise, I'll stop.

His look of comical surprise and the half-dazed fashion of his lifting a hand to fumble cautiously at his head raised some laughter and a good deal of chaff.

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.

" She took my stupid fumble very nicely, laughing merrily while saying, "If you like mountains and moonlight, Mr. Gordon, and don't mind the lack of a chaperon, get a stool for yourself, too."

"It's extraordinary what a lot of character there is in locks; they let some people open them without any trouble, while others may fumble at them till they're tired.

" The old man began to fumble in his breastpocket, and drawing out a photograph, handed it across.