2174 examples of stumbled in sentences

Whether he had meant to drown himself, and lighting on the shallow, had stumbled on till he fell exhausted: or whether he had merely blundered into the stream, careless whither he went, Tom knew not, and never knew; for Elsley himself could not recollect.

Nial stumbled on with sob and sigh, Christ heard him panting sore and hard.

Alarmed by the sounds in the rear, and not attending to the keeper's caution, he urged his horse on, and the animal coming in contact with a stone, stumbled, and precipitated him and Nizza Macascree to the ground.

It was buried in profound darkness, and he had not proceeded far when he stumbled over something lying in his path, and found from the groan that followed that it was a plague-patient.

In doing so, I stumbled and fell over some loose stones.

The by-lane was interrupted at one place by a deep pool of water, through which the detachment plunging, half-leg deep, some of the weak-legged stumbled and fell, getting their cartridge-boxes under, and spoiling their ammunition.

She was away from the camp at the time in a Moorish town when the news came to her; and she stumbled on Berkeley Cecil, and, knowing him for an Englishman, worked on his feelings, and gave him no rest till he had acknowledged the condemned man for his elder brother and the lawful Viscount Royallieu, peer of England.

For here, where I was walking, men had stumbled up with bullets and shells raining about them.

If it was hard for us to make this climb, if we stumbled as we walked, what had it been for them?

I remembered that, as I stumbled up the hill, I had tripped over a bit of barbed wire and scratched my leg.

At one moment I stumbled and fell over some unseen obstacle; at another I was turned back by an impediment I could not overcome.

He had no weapon, but as he stumbled in the direction of the camp in the little plain he picked up a club that lay in his path.

He stumbled, almost fell, and before he could recover himself Quade was at him again.

But, strangely enough, these people forgot the Whitney home, upon which it may be said the horsemen stumbled the next moment.

The horse avoids the stone at which it once has stumbled.

Sometimes you stumbled upon an escarmouche, sometimes you fled from one, sometimes you drew blank.

All I wanted was to prove I was not an English officer, but an American correspondent who by accident had stumbled upon their secret.

To guide him a priest took his arm, and the officer turned and stumbled against him.

I found all the hotels closed and on their doors I pounded in vain, and was planning to go back to my car when I stumbled upon the Hôtel du Nord.

She stumbled on a block of stone, sank on it and cowered there, sobbing and shivering.

I this morning accidentally stumbled upon the word "Porcellagium," which is interpreted in Ducange's Glossary, "Tributum ex porcis seu porcellis.

We have stumbled on a lion home, the breeding place of hundreds of lions that infest the north rim of the canyon.

While Wesley Tiffles was taking this rosy view of the "Cosmopolitan Window Fastener," he stumbled upon Fayette Overtop, Esq., who was walking briskly toward his office, and thinking over a hard case in which his services had been secured the day before.

When Tiffles stumbled against Fayette Overtop, he at once invited his friend to go with him to Mrs. Crull's.

I ran up to my room for some music, and, not having a lamp, stumbled over my shawl and bonnet and various bundles which somebody had deposited on the floor.

2174 examples of  stumbled  in sentences