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.

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

So, while his mate fumbles with the bolt lever of his rifle, the driver takes a firmer grip of the wheel, gives her more "juice," and plunges headlong down the road.

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.

A man of thirty years of age, and with legs as thick as a gate-post, stands up in the middle of the room, and gapes, and fumbles with his gloves, looking all the time as if he were burying his grandmother.

"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.

My syce pats, and speaks soothingly to the trembling horse, while my peon with excited fingers fumbles at the straps of my gun-case.

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

And Axel starts at the sight, and fumbles with a hand behind his back for the latch of the door.

Had you gone on across the intervening turf until the lengthened shadow of the nearest goal post was reached you would have seen first a squada veritable awkward squadarranged in a ragged circle and passing a football with much mishandling and many fumbles.

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

He was feeling for himself like a man who fumbles his way down a dark passage dangerous with obstructions.

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.

He dumbly fumbles for his ball, which, with a last bid for exemption, eludes his fingers and rolls under the table.

" 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.

A glimmering before death, 'tis nothing else, Sir, Do you see how he fumbles with the Sheet?

how he fumbles about the domains Which this comfortless oven environ!

He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees, Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow, By fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten, Your brain to bubble cool, Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul.

He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees, Prepares your brittle substance For the ethereal blow, By fainter hammers, further heard, Then nearer, then so slow Your breath has time to straighten, Your brain to bubble cool, Deals one imperial thunderbolt That scalps your naked soul.

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

Guglielmi has a strong conviction that if he turns round Count Nobili may kick him, so, keeping his eyes well balanced upon him, he fumbles with his hands behind his back to find the handle of the door.

Amid the suppressed giggle of the bridesmaids, the disconcerted look of the bride herself, at such a palpable instance of carelessness on the part of the bridegroom thus publicly displayed before all her friends, and the half-repressed disapprobation of the numerous circle around, he fumbles in the coat-pockets, and turns them inside-out.