Which preposition to use with fumbling

in Occurrences 127%

Have you got the key about you?" He fumbled in his pocket, and presently produced a bunch of keys.

with Occurrences 93%

For a moment, I fumbled with the knots, weakly; but they were wet and hard, and I could do nothing.

at Occurrences 72%

There is something fumbling at the door-handle.

for Occurrences 72%

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

about Occurrences 23%

" 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.

at Occurrences 15%

It was whilst thus employed, that I heard a fumbling at the door, and the latch was tried.

on Occurrences 8%

Of a consequence, I fumbled on my own devices, possibly to the increase of my general knowledge, but without gaining what I sought.

among Occurrences 8%

She fumbled among them, blind with tears.

over Occurrences 8%

he exclaimed, after fumbling over the leaves for several minutes.

through Occurrences 8%

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!

in Occurrences 4%

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.

under Occurrences 4%

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

behind Occurrences 3%

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.

with Occurrences 2%

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.

along Occurrences 2%

His thick hand was fumbling along the wall.

amid Occurrences 2%

With a shaking hand he fumbled amid his cigarette papers.

by Occurrences 2%

But to their surprise Brill shifted to the leftthat one weak spotand got the ball on a fumble by the Roxley half-back.

after Occurrences 2%

Dibdin's letter of discovery was signed D. Hence Lamb's fumbling after his Christian name, which he probably knew all the time.

for Occurrences 2%

With a spring, she flung herself on me, her hand fumbling for the pocket I had tapped suggestively a moment ago.

into Occurrences 1%

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.

toward Occurrences 1%

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.

inside Occurrences 1%

"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.

down Occurrences 1%

Suddenly I felt a hand fumbling down the coverlid, and 't was Nannie, my old nurse, and her arm was laid heavily across me.

within Occurrences 1%

" 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.

about Occurrences 1%

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.

Which preposition to use with  fumbling