They tarried till a booming bell gave signal that the dance was over and then they joined the throng of toddling women and shuffling men who turned toward their homes.
Slippers were provided them and shuffling in with these upon their feet they sat on cushions, when a little maid in kimono and broad obi came forward to ask if the honorable ladies would like some honorable tea.
The cries of boisterous laughter mingled with the strumming of the banjo and the shuffling of feet told him that they were engaged in one of their rude hoe-down dances.
Paul's cousin came in, shuffling a little, blinking his eyes in the light of the unshaded lamp, and looking very cross and tired.
At Lilly's entrance, Isaac Neugass came shuffling around the ground-glass prescription partition, his hands at their perpetual dry washing of each other.
The slamming up of chairs and mussy shuffling into wraps recalled her.
None but fools and invalids can find pleasure in shuffling cards all evening long to find out whether they shall win a few pence at the end.
In pity for himself and the whole world, his heart ached within him, as a rustling of gowns and a shuffling of feet told that the worshippers had risen from their knees and were coming toward him.
There was an eager catching up of bags and baskets, a shuffling forward of unsteady feet, and the goody came out of her day-dream to throw herself into the strife over a jar of peppered broth.
So, seemingly for years and years, we sat there, with the water lapping against the side of the ship, and the sound of the straining of leather and the shuffling of feet as the men sleepily put on their arms on the fore-deck.
The shuffling tread of the insurgent infantry echoed across the gravel court-yard; torches behind the walls were extinguished; blackness enveloped the cliffs.
The mayor handed him the rolls, and the lieutenant, facing the shuffling single rank, began to call off: "Roux of Bannalec?
These remonstrances affected the consul, but the situation of affairs obliged him to act in a shuffling manner: so completely had not only his colleague, but the whole of the patrician party, enthusiastically taken up the opposite cause.
From an arched entrance across the room were coming shuffling figures whose black wings were wrapped about their chalk-white bodies.
As the shuffling figures closed about him and led him away he found relief in the thought of his ship, of Spud's safety, and of his return to the world that they both knew as home.
A dull sound, like footsteps shuffling in the dark passage behind the arras, struck her ear; she knew her strange visitant was come.
Presently were heard the shuffling steps of a number of men in the great hall, bearing the body of the Bourgeois into the large room where the sunshine was playing so gloriously.
The gray fogs of the night lie low, and lights begin to twinkle, lines of shuffling figures to find their way to the nearest suburban station.
Figure then the septuagenarian's amaze when, one fine morning, as he was shuffling about in his carpet slippers, the servant brought him word that his six daughters demanded his instantaneous presence in the drawing-room.
Presently came timid, shuffling steps; a shutter opened in the door, and the grille thus disclosed was pierced by a shaft of feeble yellow light.
A faint exclamation suggestive of dismay was the answer, the shutter closed again with a snap, the shuffling steps retreated and unbroken silence followed.
When you have done shuffling the cards, perhaps you will give me the one you have in your hand," cried Molly.
She missed her husband's rough voice, the heavy shuffling tread, above all the rare endearments that she valued for their infrequency.
I must care, since I am shuffling about before you; getting a cuffing for my pains!
A shuffling sound was heard outside, a muffled step in the outer room.
She even failed to hear the shuffling step of two men who stealthily entered the room.
She listened with throbbing heart to discover whether there was any shuffling sound to betray the approach of one of the Koshare.
The fish walks, or rather shambles along ungracefully, by the shuffling movement of a pair of stiff spines placed close behind his head, aided by the steering action of his tail, and a constant snake-like wriggling motion of his entire body.
He went out and stood at the top of the beach as they went past, their feet scrunching on the stones and shuffling through the sand as they marched down to No.
He watched him shuffling and dealing the cards, and then fell asleep.
To her ears there came the sound of a blow in the room she had just left, a groan, the dull thud of a body striking the floor, accompanied by a Spanish oath, and a shuffling of feet.
Those within could hear the shuffling of the horses' feet as though they were eager to be off.
In a subtle fashion the news from within floated out and communicated itself to the lines of men impatiently shuffling their feet in the streets.
Soon I am shuffling afield of the fallen chimney, one hand on my lumbar, crouched over like a chimp, knees splayed in an effort to shift stress away from my grooved calves.
I rain gravel down the exhaust tube by the handful, getting into a mindless, shuffling rhythm, wearing the sides of my hands raw and red as I scrape the pebbles up into handy piles.
And why do I see her as a rag-picker on the American cinema, shuffling along wrapped in a filthy shawl with her old claws crooked over a stick?
And then the station--unforgettable--with the sight of the jaunty little train shuffling away and those hideous children waving from the windows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shuffling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
