1 The ivory Pequod was turned into what seemed a shamble; every sailor a butcher.
2 The animal broke into a shambling trot, his breath panting and labored, and the wagon swayed forward with a jolt that threw them about like popcorn in a popper.
3 If we will keep a shambling, loose, untaught set in the community, for our convenience, why, we must take the consequence.
4 The shambling figure, and the scanty great-coat, were not to be mistaken.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP 5 He moved with a shambling gait round the group and spoke to Stephen.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 6 The exhausted horse did not respond to the whip or reins but shambled on, dragging his feet, stumbling on small rocks and swaying as if ready to fall to his knees.
7 He shambled along with bowed head, his brain in a tumult of agony and despair.
8 The man shambled down the passage in his slippers.
9 Begone, then; and if thou wilt do mine errand, and if thou return hither when it is done, thou shalt see Saxon flesh cheap as ever was hog's in the shambles of Sheffield.
10 When it cleared again the place was a shambles.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott" 11 When about to be sent to the same market, an older sister went to the shambles, to plead with the wretch who owned them, for the love of God, to spare his victims.