Which preposition to use with fumbling
Have you got the key about you?" He fumbled in his pocket, and presently produced a bunch of keys.
For a moment, I fumbled with the knots, weakly; but they were wet and hard, and I could do nothing.
There is something fumbling at the door-handle.
As I fumble for another, the thing shines out again.
" The boy crept cautiously in the direction of the passage leading into the house; he fumbled about, an age, as it seemed to the impatient Barney, and at last uttered an exclamation: "Got 'em?" "No, massa, but Ise suah deys kep dar.
It was whilst thus employed, that I heard a fumbling at the door, and the latch was tried.
Of a consequence, I fumbled on my own devices, possibly to the increase of my general knowledge, but without gaining what I sought.
She fumbled among them, blind with tears.
he exclaimed, after fumbling over the leaves for several minutes.
The tired turtle, Fumbling through the wood, Came, asking hospitably "If I would?" Even a hornet came, With sheathed sting, He never yet had seen So lost a thing!
I goes to the National Gallery, makes a sketch, 'ere it is,' and after some fumbling in his breast pocket, he produced a greasy piece of paper, which he handed to Hubert.
I saw Mr. Sims fumble under his cloak and take a quick step backwards.
She kept her eye on the little man, as if to watch against a surprise attack, and, fumbling behind her, her hand found the hand of Landis and closed over it with the reassurance of a mother.
And I to begin again to live in my body, and I made, mayhap, a little fumbling with my hands; for she to take and to hold them; and life to come from her to me; and she to be ever wordless and gentle; and contentment to grow in me, and presently a natural slumber.
His thick hand was fumbling along the wall.
With a shaking hand he fumbled amid his cigarette papers.
But to their surprise Brill shifted to the leftthat one weak spotand got the ball on a fumble by the Roxley half-back.
Dibdin's letter of discovery was signed D. Hence Lamb's fumbling after his Christian name, which he probably knew all the time.
With a spring, she flung herself on me, her hand fumbling for the pocket I had tapped suggestively a moment ago.
He laid the gloves on the table and reached into an inner pocket of his torn coat and drew out a little cloth pouch and he fumbled into this and I heard the clink of coins.
I think I mean that perhaps our race, not especially inspired in its instinct for color and external form, may possibly be fumbling toward an art of living.
"Then here's the pledge of it!" Calder fumbled inside his shirt for a moment, and then withdrawing his hand placed it palm down in that of Dan.
Suddenly I felt a hand fumbling down the coverlid, and 't was Nannie, my old nurse, and her arm was laid heavily across me.
" Valencia fumbled within his sash and brought forth the small, folded square of paper, went up two steps and placed it in Jack's upturned palm, gave Jack also a glance more kindly and loyal than ever he had received from that minx, Teresita, and went away to the vaqueros' quarters.
At length the Rover heard a hand fumbling about the handle of the cabin door, and then his military friend once more made his appearance.