The Judge was slumped over the big, shining table, his jaws trembling, his hands fumbling the ink stands and paper weights.
Fumbling nervously for his letter-case, he rose from his seat and walked across to the fireplace.
He stared into the darkness for an instant in dazed apprehension; then he slid out of bed, fumbling blindly for his dressing-gown.
I don't know what you mean," replied the colonel, following his own code of combat and mentally fumbling at a net to throw over this antagonist.
Yes, it was too bad," I muttered, fumbling in my pocket for my catalogue, to find that I had left it in the coat I had taken off.
He could talk no French but a little boy at the inn, seeing him fumbling through his clothes with an unlighted pipe, came running to us with a little blue box of matches.
They wasted no time fumbling for the knob, but put all the strength of their shoulders against the opening.
For a full quarter-hour he sobbed like a child--this great sturdy fellow of thirty-five, and through the mist in my eyes I could see that my companion had turned her back on us and was fumbling for her handkerchief in her pocket.
We'll see in a short time," said his father, fumbling his rifle.
He was fumbling at the door-handle before the wheels stopped turning.
The midget showed no signs of the fumbling uncertainty the others had displayed--but he'd been a member of a midget acrobatic team before he went to work at the Shed.
It might-- Mike was fumbling tin cans out of the net bag from which Haney had been throwing them away.
Down on hands and knees went the big man, fumbling at the fragments.
Toward this vivid beam, Gavin bent his steps, fumbling in his pocket as he went, for something with which to tie Bobby to the nearest tree.
Then, dazedly, he stumbled to the front door and pushed it shut, fumblingwith its bolts.
When I was abreast of the middle of the village a sudden desire for a pipe--that solace of the lone man--took possession of me and I began fumbling about my clothes for my matchbox.
She was fumbling at her dress, loosening the top buttons close under her chin; then she ripped it clear, exposing her neck and back.
After fumbling about for a bit he tried a second, and then a third.
Armitage wasfumbling in his pocket for a coin, but this impertinence caused him to change his mind.
In fumbling for the front door he found a hat, and, having lost his own, placed it upon his head, drew his inverness about his shoulders, and went quickly out.
As Philip ran behind he made a fumbling inventory of the loose rifle cartridges in the pocket of his coat, and under his breath prayed to God that the day would come before the Eskimos closed in.
In all that time Master Vallance, fumbling foolishly with flagrant questions, learned little of his companion save what that companion was willing, or maybe determined, that he should learn.
The president watched him covertly, fumbling the seal that dangled from his watch-chain.
He was coming slowly down the steps, one arm encircling a great bundle of books, one hand fumbling at his neck scarf.
The cook, who had been fumbling uneasily with her apron, looked up.
And at the moment, he was fumbling with the chains that fastened the little golden cage to his chest.
I recall that I was at that moment fumbling at my belt in two small compartments in which I was carrying the two vials of the drugs which Glora had given me.
