1 Ethan paused also, affecting to fumble for the peg on which he hung his coat and cap.
2 Before he could even fumble at his belt, she pulled the trigger.
3 She heard him fumble in the dark, strike a match and the room sprang into light.
4 Rosedale continued to fumble awkwardly with the tea-pot, and she felt sure that he had heard what had been said of her.
5 The youth sat obediently and the corporal, laying aside his rifle, began to fumble in the bushy hair of his comrade.
6 The youth made no reply, but began to fumble with the buttons of his jacket.
7 All the other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled state they fumble about.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 8 He was getting into his clothes in fumbling haste.
9 "Our people and the Wilkes are different," he went on slowly, fumbling for words.
10 "Oh, now I've made you cry, too," sobbed Pittypat, in a pleased way, fumbling in her skirt pocket for her handkerchief.
11 Had Charles with his fumbling awkwardness and his embarrassed intimacies tapped any of the deep vein of passionate feeling within her, her dreams of Ashley would not be ending with a kiss.
12 For a moment Scarlett went faint, already feeling rough hands thrusting themselves into her bosom, fumbling at her garters.
13 She remembered the embarrassing and disgusting events of her brief honeymoon with Charles, his fumbling hands, his awkwardness, his incomprehensible emotions--and Wade Hampton.
14 Now, she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.
15 Late at night, a step on the wooden porch, heard through her confusion of sleep; the storm-door opened; fumbling over the inner door-panels; the buzz of the electric bell.