The ship dropped anchor, and the front part of Rio town, a tumble of fantastic red and yellow washed houses, was for all the world like a drop curtain to a stage.
I was obliged to get out of the pulk frequently and punch him in the flanks, taking my chance to tumble in headlong as he sprang forward again.
The lady had one harmless tumble into the mud, and we were all pretty well fatigued with our rough walk, when we reached the Lapp encampment.
Sergeants, surcharged with a rude, luminous unshaken faith in the republic, tumblestumblingly into their positions.
From roseate fantasy to grim realism is a tumble sharp and sudden to the dreamer in the Shelter Tent.
I tumble into bed with a sigh of unutterable relief.
It won't do either of us any good to have a rough andtumble here, but of course" .
Then the light faded from the sky, the gloaming star shone out in the east, big waves began to tumble in, and the night breeze blew cold and chill from off the broad Atlantic Ocean.
You'd tumbledown and break your neck if you tried to climb to the truck the first time you ever went up the mast.
But one night while Davy lay sound asleep in his warm hammock, he was startled by a cry on deck, which was followed by a loud order for "all hands" to tumbleup and shorten sail.
Come below and I'll give you summat to do you good, and tumble you into your hammock.
Take away that navy, and the insurance offices in Wall-street would tumble like a New York party-wall in a fire.
Another earthquake, and the massive roof may tumble headlong into the abyss which now yawns beneath its cornice of snow.
Their masonry of cemented blocks gives them the appearance of castles, the work of a more than human hand; they threaten to tumble headlong into the valley, a fate to which some have already succumbed.
Eh bien; they would soon tumble the Bourbons into oblivion again.
Holleran leaped to his feet, but there was a glitter in Picard's eye that did not promise well for any rough-and-tumble fight.
Tried to double-cross me, and in the rough-and-tumble that followed he was more or less banged up.
You were in a rough-and-tumble down the Chinese Bund, and we got you away.
Was there ever a rough-and-tumble that anybody could explain lucidly the morning after?
The bare sight of the fall below me would turn me sick; it looks just as if it was watching for me totumble in!
He's got one there, I know, for I saw it tumble out of the boat as she swamped; but how are we to get at it?
Tumble out," said Frank, himself hitting the floor.
The children took advantage of the pause to tumble out, but we sat still.
Molly, rubbing the tears out of her eyes and looking up at the back of the big round sun; "and shall I tumble all the way down when I get to the other side?
And if you tumble down, don't cry but pick yourself up again," said Captious.
If you know how to tumble down properly, it is the best fun in the world.
Looking upstream, the church forms the central feature of a pleasant, restful prospect; its picturesque tower reflected in the clear waters of the Cleddau, which rushes onward to tumble with refreshing roar over a weir close at hand.
No, no, master, I have had a roll and tumble with the flesh.
First thing you know, you'll tumble off your pony with a bad case of heat knock-out.
When they did finally tumble in and pull the blankets over them they were unable to sleep, between the howling of the coyotes and their laughter over Stacy Brown's new-found talent.
Mean time let us leave looking for these weeping Heliades, and enquire what became of the Swan, that poor Phaeton's friend and cousin turned into, for very grief and fear at seeing him tumble in the water.
Moses striking the rock, at another fountain, where water in torrents tumble forth at the touch of the rod, has a glorious effect, from the happiness of the thought, and an expression so suitable to the subject.
I did nothing buttumble into it from my boyhood up to my marriage; since which great disillusioning--yes!
Keep thy lips shut, lad, or thy luck will tumble out of thy mouth with thy speech!
Here are two paths; take thou the one to the right hand, and I will take the one to the left, and then let us each walk straight ahead till he tumble into some merry doing or other.
Then we will fight until one or the other of us tumble into the stream by dint of blows.
