Through the silence came the dull thunder of hoofs as the men cantered on, swerving and blundering through the trees.
Then he struck and struck again, without uttering a word, playing so fast upon Raniero that he had his man smothered, blundering and dazed.
He knows how proverbially blundering are British diplomacy and British administration, so he puts it all down to the luck of the nation and goes grumbling contentedly on his way.
But what the American people really objected to in Matthew Arnold was not any blundering things that he said of them, but the fact that he wore on inappropriate occasions in New York a brown checked suit.
We are constantlyblundering and straightening out after each other.
Experience should have taught some of us how to improve upon blundering ways.
But there are days when the magnetisms are all wrong, and a person not ordinarily deficient in tact, having begun wrong, goes on blundering like a schoolboy.
That the book should produce such an impression in a translation so uncouth and blundering as Mr. Schuyler has given us is a strong testimony to its merit.
But at last I emerged upon a small open space, and as I did so, a Morlock came blunderingtowards me, and past me, and went on straight into the fire!
Two or three Morlocks came blundering into me, and I drove them off with blows of my fists, trembling as I did so.
Upon the hill-side were some thirty or forty Morlocks, dazzled by the light and heat, and blundering hither and thither against each other in their bewilderment.
In this coarse expedient, as in the clumsy means employed for disposing of Darnley, we see the blundering fool-hardiness of the man.
The blundering and bullying policy of the Protector Somerset had driven the Scotch to renew their ancient alliance with France.
Even supposing that James Benstead is nothing worse than a blundering Jack-in-office, he is just of the sort to bring the law into contempt and ridicule, and the sooner he is cashiered the better.
As they approached the first of the little groves they sent scouts along the ravine ahead of the war party to watch the plain and guard against blundering into their foes.
Dancing Rabbit declared that the Blackfeet camp was a number of days' travel farther to the northward, and for the present at least the Sioux had little fear of blundering into those foes.
Then, as a further precaution against blundering into a trap, he asked White Otter and Little Raven to accompany him on a reconnaissance far in advance of the war party.
They realized the peril to which they were exposing themselves, and Sun Bird took every precaution to guard againstblundering upon the Blackfeet.
Dicky, raising his right hand as the Hatter comes blundering through the quickset fence into the hard lane, his horse nearly alighting on his nose.
No sooner had blundering man accomplished the ruin of Halifax than Mother Nature sent a blizzard with a foot or two of snow.
So on your way, old globe, wherever aiming, Go blundering down the endless slopes of space: As far away the prospect of reclaiming The so-called human race.
So I sped on, the gigantic Ramiro blundering after me, panting and blaspheming, for although powerful, his bulk and the wine he had taken left him no nimbleness.
There should be no blundering through an excessive precipitancy.
But, in any event, they have the right to make for that wisdom which comes of living amid toil and weariness and agony and all the never wholly hopeless blundering of life.
It may be true, as has lately been suggested by the same wise teacher, that the children of our time are in protest against parents, because these are the authors and agents of the sadly blundering world by them inherited.
It is the primary and inalienable right of children to blunder, to falter upon the altar-steps, and blundering is a teacher wiser though costlier than parents.
This whole Caffre War had exemplified the blundering of the British authorities, and was teaching the natives developments, the issue of which could not be foreseen.
His big, kindly, blunderingfeet would stray into all sorts of forbidden paths.
Maybe it's a blundering bad way, but at least give me credit for trying to make the best of things.
After which graceful piece of humour Mr. Halliday went blundering up the staircase, followed by his aggrieved wife.
But if the interests of other people require--" I began, in a very blundering manner.
The servants had retired at eleven, after a good deal ofblundering with bars and shutters, and unnecessary banging of doors.
Now though I could ply a decent ready blade, or keep a firing line from lurching at a pinch, I had not learned to put a snaffle on a blundering tongue, as I have said before.
None the less, 'twas full of crooks and windings; and in the sharpest elbow of them all, where we were like to lose our way by blundering into one of the many branching side passages, Richard stopped me with a hand thrust back.
How to do this unaided I could not determine; and, since any fresh blundering would surely breed new trouble for Margery, I was forced to wait for her return.
For example, when Napoleon at La Mure advanced to meet the soldiers who were sent against him, if a sub-lieutenant of any kind had taken him by the collar the return from Elba would have been nothing more than a blundering affair.
You have had no training, no blundering to fit you for such work.
Ay can I,' answered Robert, with some pride, and laid the bow on the violin, and played the air through without blundering a single note.
Who but a blundering man, like dear honest Rube, would have so completely let the domestic cat out of the bag?
That beautiful delineation of a blundering high-minded failure had made its appeal.
Judy was not familiar with that definition of a patriot as one who makes trouble for his harmless fellow-citizens; but it looked as though she was blundering into some more of the tribulations they had had at home.
Thicker and thicker they come, their gauzy wings fluttering in the sunlight, blundering into the spectator's face, colliding with the walls, falling to the ground.
It would have been a case of every one hurrying to ecarter themselves as soon as they saw as together, doing it, too, in the usual blundering and clumsy manner.
I can only tell you how sorry I am, and how I have spent life cursing my blundering asinine stupidity ever since.
She had dreaded a mistake, a blundering discord, but now with the thing hung she could see her quick eye had not betrayed her.
There is much dishonesty due to the blundering desire for consistency in people of hasty intention, much artless and a little calculated self-seeking, but far more vanity and amiable feebleness of mind in their general attainment of failure.
I am a blundering fool--and I have to tell you so--to tell you what an unseeing fool I have been.
