In entering the house they had closed the door after them, and now Beveridge had to stop and fumble a moment with the lock.
What could Beveridge do but fumble in his pockets, bring out a handful of papers, look them over until he found a time-table, and announce that the next train was the ten-twelve?
And when next his mother let him wear his suit, he was tempted and nearly gave way to the temptation just to fumble off one little bit of tissue paper and see if indeed the buttons were keeping as bright as ever.
It was a joke among his students that he could not lecture without that piece of chalk to fumble in his fingers, and once he had been stricken to impotence by their hiding his supply.
She halted again under the lantern which stands not far from our house, and leaned against, almost hung over, the fence, and began to fumble for something among her skirts, with benumbed and awkward hands.
The youth made no reply, but began to fumble with the buttons of his jacket.
The youth sat obediently and the corporal, laying aside his rifle, began to fumble in the bushy hair of his comrade.
The Chairman was adroit, he had pulled himself out of many tight places in the Assembly Chamber, but now he began to perspire, to fumble in his coat tails for a handkerchief.
He began to fumble with extraordinary intensity in the pocket of his dinner jacket for his cigarette case.
He had an absurd vision of his two hands feeling about in the polished interior of a skull, as one might fumble for something in a large jar.
Then two players of Hixley High managed to make singles, and on a fumble by one of the new men playing for Colby one of these hits was turned into a run.
By a supreme effort Longley managed, on a fumble by one of the new players for Colby Hall, to bring in another run, at which the cheering on their side was tremendous.
It was his fumble to-day when we had a chance to score on Barrows that upset the team.
He stumbled over a chair which didn't seem to be where it ought to be, certainly it wasn't there when he went out, but he reached the mantel and began to fumble for the box which he distinctly remembered was there.
If it hadn't been for that rotten fumble of young Turner I think the Wheel-barrows wouldn't have gone home so full.
Here he paused to fumble for his snuff-box, and, opening it, held it towards me.
An unsteady hand began to fumble at the door, and Anne glanced up with a start.
She caught up her cloak and began tofumble with it.
Then it was lost on a fumble by Darrell, Sheehan coming through and falling on it.
But Fardale was fierce, and a fumble gave Ted Smart his chance.
He will most likely fumble the whole thing and drop the pistol.
Why it is loaded," he casually remarked, re-inserting the cartridge and beginning again to fumble with the lock, whilst he held the muzzle against his body.
Forrest threw a glance at his wrist watch as he talked, but in that glance, without pause or fumble of focus, with swift certainty of correlation, he read the dial.
Then he reined in his gas snorter long enough to fumblewith his bed roll in the wagon box.
Grant saw him fumble in his shirt and bring out a bright bit of metal, saw him approach the head of the line and tinker with the first fellow's wrist shackle.
Dangerous to risk a fumble on the first play, even a tiny risk.
And if I fumble now, it'll all be down the drain, finished, washed up.
Was it worth a chance of a fumble to get out there this year instead of next?
He began to fumble at his rifle in ominous fashion.
Those hands are the most distinctive feature of his person; they are full of expression; tenderly groping hands, that hesitate and fumble in wistful fashion like the feelers of some sensitive creature of night.
Surprise will, of course, be expressed on his part, when you will fumble about in his hair, and eventually find the coin which you have had palmed.
When thefumble occurred, I happened at the time to break through very fast.
It was a Yale fumble that gave us the chance we were waiting for.
Kelly took the ball for 40 consecutive yards up the field in gains of from one to three yards each, when fortunately for Yale, a fumble gave them the ball.
In a real football family there isn't much bluffing as to what you can do nor are there many excuses for a fumble or a missed tackle.
Let me fumble it gently and patiently out--with fever and fidget laid to rest--as in all the old enchanted months!
It was known that the agitated Yahoos from up in Catfish Country were likely to fumble and spill their saved-up Currency, thereby avoiding the trouble of handing it over to the Grafters later on.
Just enough to protect her against a Fumble if she found herself next to a Book Sharp.
