His step was more shambling than ever, and his hands, clutching his hat-brim, trembled more than her gnarled, palsied ones.
He was as erect as Pennold was shambling and stoop-shouldered, and although gray and lined of features, his eyes were clear and more steady, his chin more firm, his whole bearing more elastic and forceful.
He did not heed her shouted answer, for he had heard steps on the stony track, and seen the shambling figure of a man coming towards him.
All of a sudden, led by about a dozen of the largest, the whole troop of hairy monsters came shambling forward--gibbering and gnashing their great tusks in unpleasantly suggestive fashion.
The leaping, bounding crowd of hideous barbarians came shambling down like a troop of apes, in hot pursuit, eagerly anticipating the sport of tearing limb from limb the two white invaders.
Day broke, after that tremendous night, in a somewhat shambling and odd fashion.
A few days ago an old rag-picker was seen outside the Tartar Wall shambling along half dazed towards the Water-Gate, which runs in under the Great Wall into the dry canal in our centre.
Malling said no more; but as he watched the professor shambling to the garden gate, he felt as if he had betrayed Marcus Harding.
And you might give me a cup of tea in the afternoon," the professor had added, looking at the rector rather narrowly before shambling off to his hotel to get the plaid shawl which he often wore at night.
He saw only half a dozen pedestrians--shambling creatures who appeared to seek the plentiful darkness.
And, perhaps, the shambling creature outside had put the inspector's party on the wrong track.
When he got home, Vessons came shamblingto the door.
In and out of the stealthy afternoon shadows, black and solemn, went the shambling old figure with his relentless face and outraged heart.
An old carry-all came shambling along the road; there were two people in it, and one of them leaned over from the back seat and said to the driver: "This is my house.
Ethan was angry indeed when he heard the boy once more shambling back.
As the echo of the boy's shambling step died in the distance, a redoubled sense of loneliness fell upon Ethan Tynes.
Ethan expected to hear theshambling step going away with a celerity proportionate to the importance of the errand.
He raised himself from his recumbent position, and Ethan heard him shambling off, kicking every now and then at the fallen leaves as he went.
Waal, Steve," yelled the miller, shambling forward as the blacksmith appeared in the doorway.
But it did not die away, it grew more and more distinct,--a shambling step, that curiously stopped at intervals and kicked the fallen leaves.
He saw him stride forward and, with a well-directed shove, send the shambling inebriate reeling across the floor.
The porter, his waistcoat gaping, cameshambling over to him.
Queer, shambling sort of fellow, all hair and eyes, with the scar of an old cut, or something, across one side of his face.
He was well intrenched, and all opponents, such as this shamblinggiant with the red beard and nondescript carriage, must attack in the open.
A few eyes turned from the adequate figure of Judge Henderson to the loose and shambling form of the man who edged in to the front of the table.
And presently she was sensible that his shambling figure was passing away down the street under the checkered shadows of the maples.
Wilbur started off at a shambling run, half wondering, as he did so, how it was he was able to keep up at all.
Perilous though every second's delay was, Merritt would not go ahead of the boy, though he could have outdistanced his shambling and footsore pace two to one, but kept beside him urging and threatening him alternately.
As soon as they reached the clearing they were met by a big, shambling youth, whose general appearance and hesitating air proclaimed him to be the half-witted lad of whom Wilbur had heard.
Suddenly, from out the door of the mill, outlined clearly against the fire within, came an ungainly, shambling figure.
Though his gait was shambling and his huge splay feet rose and fell in the most awkward way, he went over the ground with a swiftness that made it rather doubtful whether Jake was gaining on him at all.
George, as with Shep and with Jenny (who had been waiting to be unpacked) faithfully shambling after, they hastened for the nearest store.
As I watched themshambling along over the somewhat uneven ground I was struck by something rather unusual in their appearance; and presently I discovered what it was: there seemed to be not quite so many of them.
There was much wine still a drinking, and still they slew many flocks of sheep by the seashore and kine with trailing feet and shambling gait.
All that dwelt around were her wooers; but Neleus would not give her, save to him who should drive off from Phylace the kine of mighty Iphicles, with shambling gait and broad of brow, hard cattle to drive.
On the eighteenth day we gave thy body to the flames, and many well-fatted sheep we slew around thee, and kine of shambling gait.
Now when the lady their mother had borne and nursed them, she carried them to the isle Thrinacia to dwell afar, that they should guard their father's flocks and his kine with shambling gait.
Forthwith they drave off the best of the kine of Helios that were nigh at hand, for the fair kine of shambling gait and broad of brow were feeding no great way from the dark-prowed ship.
There came shambling footsteps upon the turf, and the old Michel advanced into the moonlight from the gloom of the trees, emitting mechanical and not very realistic groans.
The result was a looseness and carelessness of good things--giving him, in a way, the look of shambling power.
A bullet spat at her feet, another cut the skirt of her dress, but all she saw was the shambling figure of the man who, but a few minutes before, was so flexible and alert with life, eager to relieve the wounds of those who had fallen.
Ethan expected to hear the shambling step going away with a [v]celerity in keeping with the importance of the errand.
But it did not die away, it grew more and more distinct,--a shamblingstep that curiously stopped at intervals and kicked the fallen leaves.
He raised himself from his [v]recumbent position, and Ethan heard him shambling off, kicking every now and then at the fallen leaves as he went.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shambling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
