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Meanings of stumbling among in English

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Usage of stumbling among in English
1
He waked as Nathan came running and stumbling among the scattered stones.
The Sad Shepherd: A Christmas Story
2
He paced the Chamber in blind arcs, stumbling among the chairs.
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
3
He found himself stumbling among the level gravestones, and stopped and sat down.
Thomas Wingfold, Curate V2
4
Thus he goes on his way, stumbling among delights and agonies.
Lay Morals, and Other Papers
5
I listened, and caught the sound of a horse's hoofs stumbling among the rocks.
Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain
6
Talk went on between her and Waits-by-the-Fire, purring, spitting talk like water stumbling among stones.
The Trail Book
7
One of the guards of the Legion who had remained outside was stumbling among the stones.
Salammbo
8
Last of all he shouldered the heavy gold sack, stumbling among the rocks under its weight.
The Shagganappi
9
Then he heard Pete stumbling among the stones, and presently the man came up, panting with haste.
Carmen's Messenger
10
A voice was calling to him from it, and he struggled to get near, falling and stumbling among the yellow waves.
A Soldier of the Legion
11
They appeared to be stumbling among the masses of fallen ruins, looking into every hole, and poking their swords into every crevice.
Saved from the Sea; Or, The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Sa...
12
What was life to Aunt Madge now but suffering and deprivation, a daily stumbling among shadows, as she had once called it.
Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
13
He was stumbling among the people who begat other people when Mary-Ellen came in with coffee and biscuits and gave him a welcome break.
The Lives of Christopher Chant
14
I tied Modestine to a gate, and groped forward, stumbling among rocks, plunging mid-leg in bog, until I gained the entrance of the village.
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
15
Staggering and stumbling among the slush and snow, more dead than alive, he was half carried, half dragged by his comrades to the fire.
The Cannibal Islands: Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas
16
Nearer they came and nearer, and now in the night he could discern a great rabble stumbling among the dips and rises of the hills.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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Stumbling among through the time
Stumbling among across language varieties
United Kingdom
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