Off tumbles Momus, and you hear him splash in the river.
Clown tumbles head over heels and sends the Man of the World flying.
You blacken over him And, charged with passion, make an atmosphere Of sulphur and in it, as in native air, Hell slips her flame and the trunk tumbles down To darkness.
Much rather would he see the brother lost-- (The women press too close and the crucifix tumbles down the steps.
We march southwards up on to the Pamir, following a narrow valley where a foaming stream tumbles over ice-draped boulders.
Monkeys climb actively among the trees, and sit swinging on the boughs, and a high waterfall tumbles down a cliff surrounded by dense luxuriant vegetation.
She tumbles into verse and sketching on slight provocation, but her worst vice is that of curiosity.
In one story a monk crosses his legs to scare away the specter, but forgets and presently tumbles over.
The instant that an insect tumbles into the pitfall, the grub pounces upon it, writhes itself round it like a serpent, transfixes it with its jaws, and sucks its juices at its ease.
But when the leader falls, it is like withdrawing a magnet, and the heap of iron filingstumbles back to the ground inert.
If he gets into a typhoon he will be wrecked; if he tumbles over Niagara he will be drowned.
A lanky gawky fellow," said Crawley, "tumbles over everybody.
When the great house tumbles down, these miserable wretches fall under it unnoticed: as they say in the old legends, before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.
So very small a vessel tumbles about a good deal even with a very light breeze, and instead of going to dinner I lay on the roof of the cabin studying blue-books.
The house on my side has a magnificent view of the beautiful Hijan hills, down which a waterfall tumbles in a broad sheet of foam only half a mile off, and which breed a rampageous fresh breeze for a great part of the day.
First she tumbles the soft mass out on the board; then she kneads it, with much play of dimpled elbow and slender wrist.
But bimeby she tumbles down, and the p'int of it went right through her cheek.
That girl would fall into an ink bottle, if you left it uncorked--she just naturally tumbles into things.
Her tumble into the lake, followed by sundry other tumblesup and down the sand bank, had certainly not improved the appearance of Mabel's pink gingham frock.
The steward follows the lord, and gives the woman twenty marks, when he also is sent upstairs, and tumbles through the trap-door.
Next comes the proctor, who also gives the woman twenty marks, and likewise tumbles through the hole prepared for his reception.
The same is clear from the allusions in the Agamemnon to the nerveless lion, who tumbles in the royal couch, and is a sorry housekeeper for the departed king.
Supine he tumbles on the crimson sands, Before his helpless friends, and native bands, And spreads for aid his unavailing hands.
With that, his weapon deep inflicts the wound; The bleeding savage tumbles to the ground; The sacred herald rolls the victim slain (A feast for fish) into the foaming main.
O’ertaken Neamas by Merion bleeds, Pierced through the shoulder as he mounts his steeds; Back from the car he tumbles to the ground: His swimming eyes eternal shades surround.
The Cretan javelin reach’d him from afar, And pierced his shoulder as he mounts his car; Back from the car he tumbles to the ground, And everlasting shades his eyes surround.
From the high poop he tumbles on the sand, And lies a lifeless load along the land.
Likely tumbles in the fire, / When unlikely rises higher.
Man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other.
After a time a little door opens at the bottom of each egg, and a tiny grub tumblesout into the water.
So long are these limbs, that the animal finds a good deal of difficulty in running downhill, and often tumbles head over heels and rolls for several yards before it can recover its footing.
This is the future tadpole, and after a time the egg-skin splits, and out it tumbles into the water.
Unlike Salisbury, however, where the Avon tumbles through the heart of the town before skirting the sacred groves where Mrs. Proudie once reigned, the Itchen only skirts the older city, which lies like Salisbury in the lap of downs.
The Chelan River falls three hundred and eighty-five feet in the four miles from the outlet of the lake to where it tumbles into the Columbia.
The towering split crest of Mitre Rock marked the approach to the slack stretch of water backed up by the boulder barrage over which tumbles Spokane Rapids.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tumbles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
