Steering's eyes were travelling the long tumbling Tigmore line.
But before she went downstairs she crossed to the window and looked out at the tumbling Tigmore line, a kissing sigh on her lips.
Also he showed surprising agility in tumbling out of his saddle; which he had scarcely done before the crupper resounded with a whack, of which one of the borough maces bears an eloquent dent to this day.
In a score of places, since we left the Tavern, we had crossed little streams of snow-water that had come tumbling down from the banks above.
The tumbling billows come thundering in to the shining strand, and sending their hissing, seething, whirling waters, all shimmer and radiance, to the very feet of the groups of spectators.
Once only they circled the sawdust ring; then the band stopped, the last of the procession disappeared, the clown came shrieking and tumbling out into the arena with his "Here we are again!
She told it so graphically that by the time she reached the "big, black hole, and the groaning ropes of the old dummy" the girls were howling and tumbling around in a pretty good imitation of Madam Z herself.
Here," she had the armor off its big hook and simply made Dozia hold the tumbling parts.
We followed the wretched footpath, slipping on the slimy mud, and either tumbling over each other or else side-slipping into the morass, which was a jolly sight worse.
From hatchways fore and aft, seamen clad in grey fearnought coats came tumbling on deck, greeting the British with jibes and laughter.
It was a large room with two windows, and the windows were barred to keep small people from tumbling into the garden.
To witness this spectacle I have walked miles; and the roaring and tumbling of the billows excited in my heart feelings of joyous pleasure.
But alas, there was only one man, old Uncle John, resting there safely when Sally cametumbling in.
We could see them tumbling over each other in their hurry to scramble out of the forts, and after we'd ceased firing someone hauled down their colours and hoisted a white flag as big as a sheet.
He roosted in trees like a fat brown bird, and came tumbling down unexpectedly on lovers who sought quiet nooks to be romantic in.
Oh dear, I hope he isn't dead," cried Billy, tumbling out of bed and into his clothes as fast as he could.
Just as we were tumbling in upon them our colonel, who was braver and better than any of us, was shot through the brain and instantly killed.
At this stage observation was cut short by a whole battalion of Japanese infantry tumbling over the parapet, followed by swarms of reserves.
Quhair as thir hes twa short, and ane lang throuch all the lyne, quhen they keip ordour: albeit the maist part of thame be out of ordour, and keipis na kynde nor reule of Flowing, and for that cause are callit Tumbling verse.
The old "tumbling verse" of our ancestors depended on this principle, and so did the revival of it in Coleridge's Christabel.
Through the cold garden boughs we went Where the tumbling roses shed their scent.
Spenser's use of the tumbling verse in the Shepherd's Calendar was a part of his imitation of older forms for the sake of an uncultivated, bucolic effect.
And again: "Ye man observe that thir Tumblingverse flowis not on that fassoun, as utheris dois.
By Literall I meane, that the maist part of your lyne sall rynne upon a letter, as this tumbling lyne rynnis upon F: Fetching fude for to feid it fast furth of the Farie.
Or the City of Wild Parsley in March with a wave of wild flowers breaking over the ruins of Selinunte and the tumbling pillars of the Temple of Olympian Zeus lying time-mellowed in the clear Sicilian sunlight!
All I know is that holster and belt came tumbling down as I sprang and caught at the Colt handle.
One of the three players sprawled on the floor, rubbing his head and sobbing, and in front of the gunfighter was an abashed puncher from the Tumbling K range.
Often he spent hours with the baby Tommy, fashioning him ridiculous playthings, and tumbling on the ground for the child's delectation.
Knocking down the fire-irons, tumbling over the chairs, bumping up against the piano, smothering himself among the curtains, wherever she went there went he!
The rocks presented a high, impenetrable wall, over which the torrent came tumbling in a sheet of feathery foam, and fell into a broad, deep basin, black from the shadows of the surrounding forest.
But Irene was in raptures with the great brown streams tumbling down everywhere; and Lootie shared in her delight, for she too had been confined to the house for three days.
Susan, however, with that instinct which makes a woman grab at her petticoats when she is tumbling over a precipice, exclaimed shrilly: "Joe!
It brought to mind what, for the moment, he had forgotten--the loss of the key and its tumbling out of the bottle.
The boys all came tumbling up the ladders, and the first lieutenant desired each of them to take a seat upon the carronade slides.
I don't smell the pitch and tar, and I can get into my hammock withouttumbling out on the other side.
There was Flint and Gyngell, with fellowstumbling over head and heels, playing such tricks--eating fire, and drawing yards of tape out of their mouths.
On the farther side of the river were low, wooded hills, and opposite our camp a brook came tumbling through the wall of evergreens into the river.
If all be well, rising above the foam, she obeys the guiding paddles in stem and stern, and dances over the tumbling waves, while her excited crew exult at their success.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tumbling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: acrobatics; athletics; bathing; gymnastics; palaestra; sport; swimming; track
