| 单词 | shambling |
| 例句 | Those congressmen probably ain't seen the dead shambling through the fields for years, going after folks, trying to eat them. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z For some reason, I arrived when all the sidewalks had been pulled up, rendering the only refuge from the city’s murderous traffic a shambling crater-scape. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Mr. Burson, the owner and proprietor of Riverbank Books, had always reminded Dill of a shambling, humanoid badger. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z A man stepped out of the shadows, heavyset, thick of neck, shambling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Indeed, it has been over a month since he has had to curl up against the wall in his study and pray that he does not see ghosts shambling through the walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I make my way to the kitchenette, shambling a little, keeping my coat on because of the cold. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He caught the lantern and ran outside into the gale, and he saw Gabilan weakly shambling away into the darkness, head down, legs working slowly and mechanically. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Shreve was coming up the walk, shambling, fatly earnest, his glasses glinting beneath the running leaves like little pools. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z When they had hidden the treasures in a nearby cave they separated, she to summon Telemachus home, he, whom her art had turned into a shambling ragged old man, to seek the swineherd. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, I saw only one pair of trousers actually completed during the time that I spent there, although the factory workers were shambling about clutching all sorts of scraps of cloth. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All the intelligence she had gathered on the Black Tips came back to her in a sickening rush—Oomen, Geels’ shambling enforcer, the one who could crush skulls with his bare hands. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Something droned in the distance, and our shambling column—so much smaller now than when we had begun our journey—slowed to look up. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z James' chubby face was set and unsmiling as Major continued his imitation, scratching his nose, pouting his lips, and shambling loosely like a puppet at the end of jerking strings. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z A big-bellied, shambling hulk of a man, the sellsword had a seamed face crisscrossed with old scars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Hush, Benjy,” Luster said, but Ben went on at his shambling trot, clinging to the fence, wailing in his hoarse, hopeless voice. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A shambling form loomed in the shadows of the alley. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z No sooner had they stopped than the press began to thicken around them, as more and more of the afflicted came limping and shambling toward the wagons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I head for the next car over, but the alligator turns as well, shambling beside the train, its blunt, toothy snout open, grinning. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I think, when the wind shuffles them, they are shambling and beautiful as old people. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z The dog was a shambling mountain of black fur, easily as big as a rhino. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z His skin was dead looking and hairless; dropsical too, he moved with a shambling gait like a trained bear. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He could no longer stand the rooms where Antonapoulos had lived, and he rented a place in a shambling boardinghouse not far from the center of the town. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Aurelia glanced unseeingly at the huge shambling animal, but she didn’t wait to see it go through its weary tricks, restoring the old carefree spirit to the great audience. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The queen remembered the Maid of Tarth, a huge, ugly, shambling thing who dressed in man’s mail. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z You get a sense of him shambling around in search of the weird and ugly truth, like Elliott Gould in “The Long Goodbye.” Books of The Times: That Perfect Florida Tomato, Cultivated for Bland Uniformity 2011-07-05T21:04:11Z Although miscast, a reviewer for The Times of London wrote, he had “shambling and inarticulate charm.” Sean Connery, Who Embodied James Bond and More, Dies at 90 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Soon it became a contrived and shambling hybrid of the two. ‘NPR Voice’ Has Taken Over the Airwaves 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z Thus, as well as people running away from shambling animated corpses, we also get the military and political response to the apocalyptic event. When horror stopped being supernatural 2013-05-16T09:55:38Z I love a kind of shambling outsider protagonist who always feels like they’re “other.” 'Transparent' Creator Jill Soloway on Making the World Safer for Trans People 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z Immediately Dani dims from a beacon positivity with supernatural accuracy to a gloomy, shambling pile of insecurities. What "Ted Lasso" could help us to understand about athletes protecting their mental health 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z With its skeletal narrative and desolate tone, “Bad Fever” is a low-budget oddity, a shambling study of pathological loneliness that begs for our sympathies with defiant reticence. Movie Review: ?Bad Fever,? Directed by Dustin Guy Defa 2012-02-03T01:37:26Z It's self-conscious, but it doesn't feel fake, and situates him as the shambling butt of many of his best jokes. Jason Manford – review 2013-07-22T17:49:08Z It’s closer to the low end, but for fans of a certain earlier strain of his work, its shambling, amiable vibe may seem comfortingly familiar. Review: ‘Crisis in Six Scenes,’ a Mere Ghost of Woody Allen Past 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The film begins slowly, as a series of apparently banal and disconnected episodes, not to mention a shambling, comic quest for the most dismal and painful moan in the history of movies. “Reality”: A mind-melting journey into the subconscious of ’70s cinema 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z But Bujalski’s comic touch — his ability to capture unease and indecision among shambling recent college grads — still stands out from the cohort. 4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Oscar Angulo, in his shifty, shambling way, uses the same terms to explain the crushing decision he made for his sons. Escape from Childhood 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z The bright-eyed, chipper runner that I first saw last Sunday was reduced to a shambling, hollow-eyed shell.” Runner's lie? Cheating rumors didn’t stop Robert Young – but something else did 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The shambling, eccentric Terry is so lost in his world of gadgets that he reacts to the surrounding drama with a sheepish, good-natured shrug, as if none of it were his problem. Movie Review: ‘The Oranges,’ Directed by Julian Farino 2012-10-04T23:32:00Z “Mr. Costner and Mr. Paxton acquit themselves well, and Mr. Reynolds gives the ambushes and shootouts, filmed in Romania, a shambling, ugly realism,” Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times in May. DVD: New on DVD: ‘Jean Grémillon During the Occupation’ 2012-07-29T03:13:01Z These people still think that the disease is treatable – we know that in a matter of days this guy is going to be shambling around on a relentless quest for human flesh. Fear the Walking Dead: Season one, episode two – So Close, Yet So Far 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Taylor points out that, in the past, colonial subjects were often described as both disabled and animal-like: they were seen as shambling, hunched, and bestial, and, therefore, as “lower” on the chain of being. Are Disability Rights and Animal Rights Connected? 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Dressed in a bright red suit with a black shirt and a bow tie, Pryor cuts a dandified, but somewhat shambling figure. Glenn Ligon takes apart a Richard Pryor performance 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z But to understand the GOP’s internal contradictions, and the dangers posed by its rotting, shambling undead carcass, I suspect we need to reach even further back. Jeb! Agonistes: Being the sad and gruesome history of a frontrunner who never was and the GOP’s zombie apocalypse 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z A sweet, shambling poem to the tenacity of hope and the sustaining power of friendship, “Hunter Gatherer” joins two luckless strivers on a picaresque journey to nowhere. Review: ‘Hunter Gatherer’ Profiles Two Men Living on the Margins 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z His Semitic features suggested intelligence, but his shambling gait and inattention to his tonsure and sartorial presence suggested a man under extraordinary stress. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: A new dog. A closed door. A mysterious puddle. Can Sherlock Holmes solve this case? 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z But let’s return to “Mr. Turner,” anchored by a grunting, shambling, perversely charismatic performance by Timothy Spall, who was rewarded for his labor with the best actor prize at Cannes this spring. The Telluride Film Festival Features ‘Mr. Turner’ 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z “The house felt more like a night zoo,” Nathaniel says, “with moles and jackdaws and shambling beasts who happened to be chess players, a gardener, a possible greyhound thief, a slow-moving opera singer.” A Mother Keeps Wartime Secrets in Michael Ondaatje’s New Novel 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Take the shambling parody of Hollywood noir that replaced the glorious southern gothic of True Detective’s season one as a recent example. Sophomore slump: can Westworld avoid a poor second season? 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z His role as a shambling, tragicomic mess of an impoverished patriarch in the now-ended series was just one more of the character actor’s indelible creations. AP Emmy pundits favor ‘The Crown,’ ‘Ted Lasso’ for honors 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z You see, the title of the series doesn't just refer to the hordes of undead people shambling about the face of the earth. 'The Walking Dead' recap: The one where the title gets explained 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Parker, as played by Andrew Garfield, is no hapless super-nerd, but a mumbling, shambling skateboarder who, though perhaps not extra-strength catnip to the ladies, has no trouble in catching their eye. The Amazing Spider-Man 2012-06-19T08:16:43Z Webb has reinvented Parker as a shambling, mumbling skateboarder; a loner, sure, but a long way from Tobey Maguire's grinning mute. Marc Webb: the latest director caught in Spider-Man's web 2012-06-21T20:00:01Z You stagger back and forth across it like a shambling drunk, until there is no more sleeping and waking; there is just this dim, dull, soupy consciousness. ‘Reality shrivels. This is your life now’: 88 days trapped in bed to save a pregnancy 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z If there’s a unifying thread in all this teeming human traffic, it’s the shambling figure of Ai himself. Ai Weiwei: ‘Without the prison, the beatings, what would I be? 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z More zombies are slowly shambling their way toward your TV screen. 'The Walking Dead' companion series gets pilot order at AMC 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Far from shambling, like Columbo, he’s ceaselessly cheerful and confident. ‘Inspector Ike’ Review: A Murder Mystery Send-Up, ’70s-TV style 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z All we got from him — again, at least in the first few years — was a purposeful façade of the clueless, shambling detective…until the very last moments, when he explained everything. Is The Blacklist Today’s Columbo? 2014-01-21T10:00:58Z The book, which features classic horror elements — shambling corpses, an ancient evil unleashed — is either creepily satisfying or a trigger for your worst nightmare. Review | ‘Red Hands’ is either creepily satisfying or a trigger for your worst nightmare 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z The undead protagonist of the title is Gwendolyn Dylan, 20 and holding, who must eat a brain once a month to avoid becoming the shambling stereotype. Comics: Flaws aside, animated 'All-Star Superman' still fun 2011-03-01T19:20:03Z Watching these shambling insectivores quarrel and cavort invites us to meditate on what it means to be an animal, human or otherwise. Theatrical Moles Put Out Their Paws for a Visit 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Tuesday night finished with Mr. Arthur as the charmingly shambling performer of “As You Like It.” Review: The Bard as Bedtime Story in ‘Table Top Shakespeare’ 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z In the same manner as before, the chefs gathered around Nilsson as he assembled the plate, arranging the dandelions in three shambling piles over the curving tongue. Magic out of mould: inside the world’s wildest restaurant | Jordan Kisner 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z And Wray's shambling, endearing, mildly grouchy Matthew doesn't have the roar or presence of a thundering old warrior on his last hurrah. Review: 'Sunlight' examines murky post-9/11 issues 2010-03-18T22:05:00Z I had so completely bought into Hoffman’s character, in all his shambling, flawed humanity, that I wanted to play god, play Anton, and protect him. A Preview of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Last, Enthralling Role 2014-02-02T20:30:40Z When the women hurl themselves into a shambling, splayed leg run, or lunge into a stomping run-walk, you want them to push into — or through — a state of collapse. Dance Review: ?X? by Melinda Ring at Danspace Project 2010-05-14T21:59:00Z One snippet of video showed Monk himself dancing, shambling into the lurching shuffle that he would rise from the piano to do when he felt his band was really swinging. Review: ‘Thelonious’ is a Tap Tribute to a Musician 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Soon, Allie joins him — both of them more Bernsteins, in their restless energy and shambling attire, than “clean-cut” Woodwards. Review | Val McDermid’s new novel is a delightful throwback, complete with a retro song list 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z In La Plaza Cultural garden in the East Village, a weeping willow, like some shambling teenager, hunches toward a clutch of young people as if trying to join their conversation. Voyages: How to See a Tree 2012-02-10T16:53:39Z The stunning Queenie is a translucent gray exoskeleton with three humans visibly ensnared in her inner workings, strapped into harnesses, busily manipulating the levers that power each shambling step of her hinged legs. With the Ringling era ending, two acrobatic shows fly high with modern takes on the circus 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Her CV is wild: like the inky passport of a student who’s been InterRailing on gut, shambling upon great things, then oversleeping stops, ending up in sidings. Jennifer Jason Leigh: ‘I've been at this precipice so many times' 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z “Ira has a deceptively offhand, shambling way of directing,” Mr. Lithgow said. John Lithgow and Alfred Molina Play a Longtime Couple 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z His diffidence blends well with his shambling characterization and Ford’s unhurried tempo. Mr. Lincoln Goes to Hollywood (and Looks Like Henry Fonda) 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z They are about as precise as Twombly gets; the motif turns shambling in four larger oil paint drawings nearby. Cy Twombly, Redefined by His Drawings 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z Instead it fell into familiar, rote patterns of Event TV – patterns, as The Walking Dead sheds viewers in their shambling hordes, it desperately needs to break free from. The Walking Dead: season 8, episode 12 recap – The Key 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z As Hagen, the production’s linchpin, the bass Mika Kares, a newcomer to the cast, was most memorable: aggressive and doleful, stony and agonized, shambling around the set like the overgrown child he is. At Bayreuth, the Work on Wagner’s Operas Is Never Done 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z The shambling, craggy-face performer had a decades-long career that included memorable turns in "Alien," ''Paris, Texas," ''Cool Hand Luke" and many other films and TV shows. Character Actor Harry Dean Stanton Dies at 91 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Cut to a shot of a walker shambling ever forward, presumably happy and fulfilled by his life’s “ambition” to eat another brain. The Walking Dead 'Self Help' Recap: The Big Lie 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z In the taxonomy of horror, its undead are “fast zombies,” as opposed to the shambling hordes in old-time creature features. Review: ‘The Last of Us’ Is a Zombie Thriller About Single Parenting 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z And it works, with the movie’s many fans admiring in particular Murray’s expert way of playing shambling idiots. Top 10 Movie Shrinks 2011-11-22T09:59:12Z For fans of a certain earlier strain of Mr. Allen’s work, the comedy’s “shambling, amiable vibe may seem comfortingly familiar,” Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Friday: Woody Allen’s ‘Crisis in Six Scenes’ and ‘Marvel’s Luke Cage’ 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The only reason it isn't offensive to straight men is that there aren't any; Big is something else, a shambling, half-dead ghoul enslaved to a demonic harridan. "Sex and the City 2's" incomprehensible badness 2010-05-27T00:20:00Z And Rich Gray beguiles in the role of shambling, gullible Amos. Killers in lingerie: Village’s snazzy ‘Chicago’ 2013-05-23T21:19:28Z I came unglued, shambling to my car like some blithering zombie, saying your name over and over to myself, like a mantra. 'What should I have done differently?' A conversation with my son about divorce 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z I n time, they began shambling away over the parking lot, toward the woods. Will Russia thwart Karl Bushby’s epic hike around the globe? From there, Brazil-born soundscapist Amon Tobin, shambling scamp Mr Scruff and the Cinematic Orchestra's lush ensemble splendour came to epitomise a groundbreaking, bravely eclectic dynasty. Label of love: Ninja Tune 2010-09-22T11:16:00Z So how many zombies are shambling around Seattle, anyway? 'iZombie' recap: Kung fu fighting in 'Live and Let Clive' 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Gainsbourg becomes arrogant and dangerous, and the sweetie pie turns into a shambling drunk, the kind who has trouble connecting cigarette with mouth. Midnight in Paris. And 2 a.m. And 4 a.m. 2011-08-31T14:20:00Z Bruno is a beautiful man; Stolarsky is, at least on the surface, a shambling mess. This Week in Fiction: Jonathan Lethem on the Poignance of Backgammon 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Warrior's three principle characterizations are compelling — Nolte in particular gives a tempered performance as the shambling, sad-eyed wreck of a dad — but not enough to mask the film's lesser elements. Warrior: The Pugilists Are Restless 2011-09-09T14:30:00Z Despite its shambling, slapdash manner, it shares overly much in the very media gloss that it lampoons; the movie is both soigné and clumsy, unable to break through its own sheen. The Scattershot Satire of “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie” 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z Newman doesn't impose his performing talent on proceedings: he's shambling and distracted, as if technique might undermine his moral seriousness. Robert Newman – review 2013-05-23T17:21:02Z The underworld they live in is a shambling travesty of normal life, a bit like Romero’s ghoul-filled mall in Dawn of the Dead. The woke undead: how zombie movies are taking on racial politics 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z This is what “Ye Bear & Ye Cubb” seeks, in its shambling way, to honor. Review: In ‘Ye Bear & Ye Cubb,’ Colonial America Takes the Stage 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z “Scuffling” is a word without contextual meaning — technically, it means fighting or walking in a shambling manner — but coaches and managers, seeking the balm of euphemism, apply it to players who are playing dreadfully. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Take me out to the Old. Word. Game. 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Mike is drawn to Brooke, and her ambivalent attitude to him resembles the relationship Saint has to Brando's similarly shambling, dubiously employed and charming Terry Molloy. Magic Mike – review 2012-07-14T23:05:59Z A shambling, snow-pale creature with “deranged” hair and a massive white dog or wolf encircle. Peter Straub reviews ‘The Boy Who Drew Monsters,’ by Keith Donohue But that’s no more fair than the opposite — the notion that a shambling appearance is evidence of depth and selfless commitment to principles. Why does Bernie Sanders dress like that? Because he can. 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z In the aftermath of that, hopelessness that proves to be the slow, shambling, inescapable inevitability that does in everyone else. "Army of the Dead" is what happens when desperation meets a thrilling zombie conflagration 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z “He’s everything you want him to be — this fascinating, hilarious, shambling, angry writer,” says Cromer. Playwright Ethan Coen Fears He’s Selling Out 2013-09-13T23:32:26Z Not even Sawyer from Lost could come close to his shambling brilliance, which is saying something. It was acceptable in the 80s: why Magnum PI should be spared reboot hell 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z "In classic westerns, the hero rides off into the sunset, but in The Lone Ranger, it's Tonto we see shambling off toward Monument Valley as the credits roll," he points out. Lone Ranger shot down in early reviews 2013-07-01T11:20:58Z Throughout what is likely the series' final season, Fleabag endeavors to grow and to improve herself; she also frequently finds herself shambling from one disaster of her own making to the next. "Fleabag" gets a brilliant swan song: Who says there are no great finales? 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Wachterman is particularly hilarious as Tom’s boy-man brother, whose shambling doofus exterior hides a sharp scientific mind and more than a little bit of anger. Review: ‘Losing Tom Pecinka’ Challenges Audience to Get the Message 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z After a brief, shambling start before the band hits its stride, we’re flooded with the ecstasy of how as well as what Conor hears. ‘Sing Street’ Review: New Wave Music as Sweet Deliverance 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z This shambling style would seem at odds with the digital precision of Industrial Light. The Carpetbagger: ?Rango,? Oscar Nominee From Industrial Light, Began in Pencil 2012-02-15T23:12:47Z Here, the notion of integrating dog and human performers is terrific, and the canine songs — composed by Shane Chapman in shambling roots-rock style and played by the cast — are groovy. Review: ‘Comfort Dogs’ Explores the Solace of Communing With Canines 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z As deadpan as Buster Keaton, Mr. Kitano has the title role, shambling through the mean streets of Yokohama, often to a disco version of Erik Satie’s Gnossienne No. 1. Ida Lupino, a Woman of Spine on Both Sides of the Lens 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Showtime’s “Shameless” is lead by William H. Macy as a shambling mess of a dad whose offspring reflect their scattershot upbringing on Chicago’s South Side, but with bravado and loyalty in their favor. Pandemic casts inevitable shadow on final ‘Shameless’ season 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z The shambling quality of the show is among its central themes. Norm Macdonald’s Press Tour Was a Debacle. His New Show Is a Loose Hang. 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The shoot lasted for three weeks, with Schneider, as he recalled in an essay about directing “Film,” following Keaton’s every “shambling gait,” shooting “more 180-degree and 360-degree pans than in a dozen Westerns.” When Samuel Beckett Tried to Capture the Power of the Movies 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z At the heart of the action, there’s Selina, barely shambling through her status as the widely disliked, former short-term president. The ecstasy of defeat: “Veep” is back and better than ever 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Birbiglia recently had a child and, when explaining why, the shambling, rumpled Mr. Birbiglia said, “I wanted to grow into my look.” ‘Trainwreck Comedy Tour’ Is Amy Schumer’s Thing 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Lipsyte, through the shambling, highly articulate and pathetic persona of Milo Burke, has announced the onset of the Generation X midlife crisis. Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis 2010-05-08T18:21:00Z The shambling tale of friends unto death propels Audrey and Morgan through other European venues, including Prague, Paris, and Berlin, which, dramatically, proves to be one trip too far. Review: “The Spy Who Dumped Me” Is the Best Secret-Agent Movie in Theatres Right Now 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Davis plays Da Mayor, a shambling souse who’s by turns tolerated, mocked and valued by younger people, while Dee’s Mother Sister mostly watches the world pass by. Why ‘Do the Right Thing’ Is Still a Great Movie 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z He is pear-shaped and swaybacked, rumpled and shambling, his body as indifferently maintained as an old jalopy. ‘Mank’ Review: A Rosebud by Any Other Name 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Now here comes “Divine Providence,” a studio recording with the scrappy clamor of one of the band’s shows and with songs that often make a point of shambling. New Music: Kelly Clarkson and Deer Tick - New Album Reviews 2011-10-24T22:00:18Z He laughs a lot, and has a likable, shambling presence. Roy Williams: Confessions of an uncool kid 2010-06-07T20:31:00Z It discovers a hero in the person of Daniel Dromm, a New York City councilman who tackles the job of representing his neighborhood with shambling, inexhaustible good cheer. Frederick Wiseman: The Filmmaker Who Shows Us Ourselves 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z But to those of us watching his shambling incompetence over the Jimmy Savile scandal, it sounded spot on. George Entwistle: Media reaction 2012-11-11T10:30:05Z Even so—what is Dominic Cooper, perfectly fine in pictures like The Duchess, An Education and The History Boys, doing shambling about in sub-King Arthur gear? Review: Warcraft Is Ridiculous, But Paula Patton Is Not 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z He’s accorded the shambling ineptitude and misdirected lust we expect from a modern man, but at heart he’s a good guy. Gone Girl revamps gender stereotypes – for the worse 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Liv: “Like someone moaning the word brains? No. If you heard the aimless shambling of the undead that might have just been me.” 'iZombie' recap: 'Dead Rat, Live Rat, Brown Rat, White Rat' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Played by Benoît Magimel with shambling delicacy, De Roller is like the French cousin of a character you might find in a Graham Greene novel or a tale by Joseph Conrad. ‘Pacifiction’ Review: Trouble in Paradise 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z ‘It’s already too late’ After Maddy stops to alert Philip to Zombie Susan, who is shambling about their weird backyard vineyard maze, the national guard shows up and makes them all stay in their houses. Fear the Walking Dead: season one, episode three – The Dog 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z This was the shambling, full system malfunction of a body and brain that could no longer outrun its own basic need for rest. Why lack of sleep literally feels like dementia, according to experts 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z A shambling, melancholic truth-teller, with a talent for riling up censors, Levant said things that weren’t supposed to be spoken aloud on national TV. Unhappiness made Oscar Levant a laugh riot. Sean Hayes carves a portrayal in a marble of suffering 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z The old sexist tropes are still shambling along in too many novels. Perspective | What readers hate most in books — from dreams to italics 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z For much of that period he was considered the dean of the Richmond press corps, known for his tough, aggressive questioning and for his shambling style, which led friends to liken him to Columbo. Donald P. Baker, who chronicled Va. politics for The Post, dies at 90 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z So, the elder Adam has left to humanity an untidy and decaying world, just as he has left to his family a shambling, untidy, decaying house. Review | John Banville is up to some fine mischief in ‘The Singularities’ 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z The Walking Dead Yet another Walking Dead show is shambling our way: the Tales of the Walking Dead follows six different characters through the land of the undead and premieres on AMC on August 14th. All the best trailers from SDCC 2022 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Both will face questions from a Conservative electorate which once savored Mr. Johnson’s shambling style but had recently grown frustrated with the seemingly endless parade of scandals in his government. Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss Will Compete to Replace Boris Johnson 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z This joyously shambling ’70s comedy obviously has a few things in common with “Boogie Nights” or “Punch-Drunk Love,” his previous odes to the San Fernando Valley he calls home. All 10 of the 2022 best picture Oscar nominees ranked, from worst to best 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Let’s start with the hosts and a nice early mention of the King’s Road in this shambling and enjoyable ditty from post-punk Chelsea band The Television Personalities. Chelsea v Brighton: Premier League – live! 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Whatever left them walked on two legs, “somewhat shambling, with one foot crossing in front of the other,” Leakey wrote. Ancient footprints suggest famed human ancestor ‘Lucy’ had company 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Like Ji-Yoon, I am not comfortable with my level of attraction to Jay Duplass, or in her case, a shambling widower who looks exactly like him. Review | Sandra Oh’s ‘The Chair’ has its flaws. But its Asian American protagonist is unlike anyone I’ve seen on TV. 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z His shambling appearance and down-home manner were not a liability but part of his appeal to jurors in a county of almond groves and citrus orchards, cattle ranches and rodeos. A rebel lawyer accused California cops of corruption. Then they accused him of murder 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Plot twist: Vegas has been overrun by zombies— not the shambling, mindless creepers from The Walking Dead, mind you; these zombies are organized and smart. New Trailers: Army of the Dead, The Underground Railroad, Resident Evil, and more 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z Honestly, that's giving the shambling zombie shell of the party that once represented old money, hardware store managers and small-town Presbyterian ministers way too much credit. Democracy's dance of death: Trump is gone — kinda. But the crisis is still here 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Trumpism has left the United States in a condition where it is a morally and ethically undead country, shambling on by instinct and compulsion with no real direction or vision. Biographer Michael D'Antonio on the most "subversive and traitorous federal official" in history 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Though their relationship is cool — she seems vaccinated against the shambling charm of Mr. Johnson — she delivered. For the European Union, It’s a Pretty Good Deal 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z They may come on as rugged individualists, but the giveaway is they’re always in shambling mobs looking for something to eat. Perspective | The thoughtless husks who plunged this NFL season into chaos deserve a public shaming 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z And then there are notes of grace like when the whole shambling clan stumbles into the night from a restaurant and begins dancing arm in arm to a street musician’s music. Review: A master class by Catherine Deneuve in ‘The Truth’ 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Effectively, the PDC banked that a certain shambling charm would shine through. Darts finds way in pandemic, airing by cellphone from players’ homes with a quirky charm 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Another song from the Disney music compilation — an ode to the villain from “101 Dalmations” — bashed out by the Replacements in a shambling version. 10 inspired, singularly eclectic productions by Hal Willner, music's hippest curator 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z "Zombies used to be these shambling, reanimated corpses that lurched through graveyards and they tended to comment on consumerism and social unrest, "explains Barber. How Hollywood films handle deadly viruses 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z Bones from animals other than sloths have been found at the site, too, but the vast majority belonged to the shaggy, shambling sloths. Paleontologists Dig Into a Giant Sloth Boneyard 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Johnson is famous for his shambling manner, a raffish untidiness that extends from his clothes to his personal life. Boris Johnson Tries On a New Campaign Persona: Disciplined 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z A shambling, slipshod figure in the best of times, the prime minister has seemed undisciplined and occasionally uninformed during several recent appearances — lending weight to past criticism that he is often lazy and ill-prepared. Boris Johnson Was Supposed to Be an Ace Campaigner. So Why Is He Stumbling? 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z From his elite education to his posh accent, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is, despite his shambling appearance, the very embodiment of a wealthy, powerful and privileged British establishment. Heading into crucial British vote, a patrician prime minister takes up the populist Brexit banner 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z So let’s play out this first week of the election campaign with the prime minister shambling about, like the grotesque illustration to some cautionary nursery rhyme. Lurching and rambling, Boris Johnson is in charge. But he’s lost control | Marina Hyde 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Luminous as always, Tomei enlivens all of her scenes, whether reacting to her gentleman friend’s shambling advances, a sudden revelation of sad news or the suggestion that she marry Paul. Review | ‘Frankie’ has it all: Beautiful scenery, family drama — and Isabelle Huppert 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Tall and trim, speaking in clipped sentences, Mr. Varadkar was a stark contrast to the shambling, discursive Mr. Johnson, who rankled some in Dublin by referring to his host as Leo. Britain Once Held All the Cards With Ireland. Brexit Turned the Tables. 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Being in proximity to such overwhelming masculine beauty is so intoxicating to shambling Benjamin that he has trouble remembering that this tantalizing object of desire belongs to his grandfather. Review: Idina Menzel lights up the sexy-neurotic comedy 'Skintight' at the Geffen Playhouse 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Sure enough, Carnival Row meets the dark god: a slimy, shambling horror, with tentacles hanging from its face. Carnival Row openly subverts H.P. Lovecraft’s racism 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z A shambling, cheaply made, mostly non-professional production seemed surely headed for the dustbin before a crowded theater got a look at it - and loved it. At Toronto, audiences to feast on a fall film omnibus 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z A shambling, cheaply made, mostly non-professional production seemed surely headed for the dustbin before a crowded theater got a look at it — and loved it. At Toronto, audiences to feast on a fall film omnibus 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z But, despite the shambling naturalism of his twitches and his line deliveries, nobody really talks the way he does, with painful hesitations acting, surprise, as perfectly placed transitions. Endgames in “Sea Wall/A Life” and “Coriolanus” 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z He filled the film with the pathos of Frankenstein or Creature from the Black Lagoon, eliciting sympathy for the shambling beast at the center of his picture. This weekend, stream two versions of Swamp Thing online 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Doblin, a shambling sun-bear of a man with a perpetual smile, initially launched an appeal against the DEA decision through its own legal channels, and won. Psychedelic renaissance: could MDMA help with PTSD, depression and anxiety? 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z But “Amazing Grace” is lifted not by the production, which is a little shambling; or the staging, which is an afterthought. Review: How sweet the sound is in Aretha doc ‘Amazing Grace’ 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Whether or not this shambling shutdown harms or helps either political party and to what degree is an entirely open question. There are no corners in an oval office 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Unbelievably enough, despite all evidence to the contrary, there’s still an actual world out there somewhere, even if Donald Trump’s shambling 72-year-old figure has thrown so much of it into shadow. News from the far side of nowhere: In a crippled world, all the news that’s fit to splint 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z The role that Gregory Peck turned into a moral beacon in the classic 1962 film is played by Jeff Daniels with a shambling, heavyhearted ambivalence. Review: In 'To Kill a Mockingbird' on Broadway, the words of Harper Lee but the voice of Aaron Sorkin 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z “It was a mixture of embarrassment, anger, frustration, sadness, everything,” Stephen Hendry says as he remembers how his dominance of snooker unravelled into, in his mind, a shambling wreck of a game. Stephen Hendry: ‘I hate the word yips, it trivialises it. It was much more than that’ | Donald McRae 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z A grim morality tale or a shambling picaresque? Review: John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix play 'The Sisters Brothers' in a soulful, stirring comic western 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Most of these shambling data revenants are computer viruses and the most long-lived of all are worms. Why some computer viruses refuse to die 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z His shambling tableau shows a barnyard troupe preparing to put on the airs of Roman gods and goddesses, including Diana, front and center, hitching up her britches in an un-goddesslike way. This National Gallery of Art exhibit proves humor is an artform 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Then there are the "Never Trumpers," who for their own reasons remain married to the shambling corpse of the old Republican Party in what is clearly an abusive relationship. Lifelong Republican Richard Painter: Trump’s conduct is “very dangerous for the United States” 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z This time, it’s Jean Dubuffet’s “Le Dandy,” a big, shambling figure of a comic urban rake standing more than 10 feet tall. This Miró masterpiece will be sold to the highest bidder. It belongs in a museum instead 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z The screenplay, which Audiard adapted with his longtime collaborator Thomas Bidegain, has a loose, shambling structure and moves to its own poky rhythms. Review: John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix play 'The Sisters Brothers' in a soulful, stirring comic western 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z And a great deal of Cargo is extremely familiar — dodging the shambling undead, dealing with bites and the progression of the disease, watching other people with a wary mixture of need and distrust. Netflix’s Cargo has a few new ideas for the zombie genre 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z It’s still dead, still shambling around and still trying to eat your brain. Exclusive: Chat is Google’s next big fix for Android’s messaging mess 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Instead, The Walking Dead will just continue to be a zombie itself — shambling forward as long as ratings allow, without death, but without many purposes, either. The Walking Dead probably should have ended for good last night 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z And his statement still holds true, with one modification: These days, Republicans are a party of zombie ideas — ideas that should have died long ago, yet still keep shambling along, eating politicians’ brains. Trump, trade and the GOP’s zombie ideas 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z “The average age of a US senator is 62, so … shambling.” Late-night TV hosts: 'Donald Trump hates black and brown people' 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z There is thought to be something unforgivably shambling about him. Stubborn, unloved, always late: why Bill de Blasio’s my kind of mayor | Emma Brockes 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z In the face of this growing challenge, the response from the rest of the world, led by the United States and China, is a shambling mess. Opinion | Fire, fury — and confusion 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z According to The Guardian, Sir Lenny "exudes massive authority" as he transforms "from a shambling klutz into a figure of authoritarian power". Sir Lenny Henry 'needs a shower' after playing thug on stage - BBC News 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Pettibon is a big, doughy, shambling guy, who, when he’s with you, can seem also to be somewhere else, but he’s cordial. The Enigmatic Art of Raymond Pettibon 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Behind Tam Dalyell's somewhat shambling and eccentric demeanour was a keen analytical brain and a passion for meticulous research. Obituary: Tam Dalyell - BBC News 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z But it would take a sharper, nervier movie than “The Comedian,” whose promising setup and shambling rhythms are ultimately deflated by a soggy final punchline, to see that promise realized. Robert De Niro amuses, but 'The Comedian' doesn't kill 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The GOP is a zombie party, shambling across the countryside, spreading terror and devouring any living creature it comes across. The GOP’s Walking Dead: Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz is the latest proof the Republicans are a Zombie Party 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Now its successor is shambling into view, like a figure from a bad dream you hoped you had forgotten. Only true liberalism can thwart the demagogues | Nick Cohen 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z All that shambling and dissembling on the international stage was, however, merely the table-setter for Trump’s big speech in Arizona on immigration. Desperation and demagoguery: Trump play-acts as president in Mexico, then goes full nativist in Arizona 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Always dressed like a homeless person shambling along the hallways, Democrats felt sorry for him and let him into their meetings. Bernie Sanders remains a loser because the fix was in 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z When they reappear, what is rediscovered is a shambling corpse. Why bad ideas refuse to die | Steven Poole 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z The walk-through attraction, located at the front of the park, will include animatronic walkers along with real-life actors portraying the shambling monsters. Universal Studios Hollywood's 'The Walking Dead' attraction will open in July 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z They've eaten the brains of their supporters, and now there is one less soulless zombie Republican shambling toward the White House. Rubio’s Exit and the G.O.P.’s Spoiled Buffet 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Slowly, sinister shapes approach from all directions: shambling pink humanoids, thick-skinned giants, a building-sized behemoth seen in the distance. The Brookhaven Experiment is your endless, inevitable virtual reality death 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z The point of this shambling introduction is that today’s north London derby is different. Tottenham v Arsenal: Premier League – live! 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z His other creation, Shoestring, introduced Trevor Eve in his breakout role as the shambling but shrewd private detective. Bergerac writer Robert Banks Stewart dies aged 84 - BBC News 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Canadian foursome Nap Eyes exists within a proud tradition of shambling, wordy rock bands, one that stretches back nearly half a century to the urban fables of The Velvet Underground and The Modern Lovers. This is your next jam: Brandy, Yeasayer, and more 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z They've eaten the brains of their supporters, and now there is one less soulless zombie Republican shambling toward the White House. Rubio’s Exit and the G.O.P.’s Spoiled Buffet 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Not that any of this will stop him from shambling forward through Iowa and New Hampshire like the most preppily-dressed zombie on “The Walking Dead.” Jeb Bush’s epic implosion: Why it’s high time he gave up his presidential fantasy 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z The point of this shambling introduction is that today’s north London derby is different. Tottenham v Arsenal: Premier League – live! 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z Not to be confused with "The Walking Dead's" walkers or George Romero's shambling zombies, a Deadite is an entirely different class of monster. Splatstick done the 'Ash Vs. Evil Dead' way 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Today, the news is that there is no news — that, some five years after the recession was officially declared over, the typical American household was still shambling along without a real raise. Lower wages for whites, higher wages for immigrants, and inequality for all 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Golems are commonly pictured as shambling, half-human creatures - a tradition that was developed further by Mary Shelley in her novel Frankenstein, published in 1818, where the artificial human being is a tragic figure. A Point of View: Is it ever right to try to create a superior human being? - BBC News 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z Look, the mission is dreary, cost-effective shambling back and forth, day after day, between school, and store, and home, and work or station, until you die. Kia Sorento: The SUV for the Dispassionate Investor 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z He's a shambling mess — potbellied and sleepy-eyed, with a well-used flask of single malt in his pocket and a bad case of writer's block to go with his bad case of the mumbling ennuis. Review: Irrational Man and the incredible shrinking worldview of Woody Allen 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z My thought here was “How do people like Daryl still get sneaked up on by loud, snarling, shambling walkers after this much time?” 'The Walking Dead' Season 5, Episode 13 Review: Forget Me Not 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Unlike the Medieval setting in Demon’s Souls, however, Bloodborne takes place in a Gothic, monster-filled city filled with shambling villagers and ferocious werewolves. The 10 Biggest, Best-Looking Video Games Of March 2015 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z In the West, zombies are generally depicted as brainless, shambling husks. Why You Can't Probably Play the New Call of Duty Game 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z This time around, the game is set in a dark, Gothic world filled with shambling villagers and massive werewolves. The Top Video Games Of 2015 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z As with past games in the series, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is getting downloadable content that adds zombies to the game, but in this case the shambling hordes are being replaced with robotic terrors. Robot zombies are coming to Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Like Resident Evil, there's a dining room with a large table, and like Resident Evil, there's a shambling, rotting creature crouched over a corpse. The biggest and best games we saw at Tokyo Game Show 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z In a shambling, hour-long set – topical, dark in tone and reflecting a mishmash of musical influences – D’Angelo appeared less interested in showing the crowd where he’s been than where he might be heading. D'Angelo at Afropunk review – neo-soul star keeps it deep and heavy 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Consider the Western obsession with shambling corpses in books, films, TV shows–and in several of the Call of Duty games. Why You Can't Probably Play the New Call of Duty Game 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The flesh-eating zombies in AMC’s hit television series “The Walking Dead” are shambling into a land of even bigger monsters. Under the Feet of Giants 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z This is at the root of our shambling nature. How do you do 'How do you do?'? 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Facing a starter shambling to the end of his night and a middle reliever, the Nationals turned a bases-loaded, no-outs rally into one run. Nats keep searching for clutch hit I mean, who doesn’t want to steamroll these shambling corpses? How Microsoft's Surprisingly Strong Xbox One Video Game Lineup Gives Them An Early Edge 2013-08-23T20:38:00Z Thankfully, the first Call of Mini Zombies game was great fun, and the sequel follows in its shambling footsteps. 20 best iPhone and iPad apps this week 2013-07-15T14:36:04Z Zombie game pop quiz: You've finally found the exit to the abandoned warehouse you'd been scavenging supplies from, but between you and freedom are four shambling infected monstrosities, all eager for tasty man-shaped snacks. The Last of Us review 2013-06-05T14:07:48Z Everyone seems to buy into the game plan engineered by the mop-haired, bespectacled Klopp, a man likened by one British journalist to a “shambling English literature teacher.” The Champions League Final: A German Dichotomy 2013-05-25T05:05:27Z While others are content to merely feature the shambling undead, here is a title that resurrects its first outing wholesale. Dead Island: Riptide – review 2013-05-04T23:01:05Z But there’s nothing to match the shambling, grim Big Daddies of the original Bioshock, or the singular character that was Andrew Ryan. Bioshock: Infinite Review -- Glorious Spectacle 2013-04-10T17:24:53Z His foes nicknamed him the Gorilla, which captures his long-armed, shambling animal strength. Oscar Countdown: How the Legacy of Lincoln Still Influences Politics Today 2013-02-24T00:35:24Z This leaves you wide open to a shambling zombie. The Most Challenging Games Of 2012 2012-12-23T04:49:56Z It's the fear that you as an individual are not a person but just one of a shambling, faceless crowd, no different than those around you. Zombies' rise in modern life 2012-12-05T00:52:35Z After separating from her husband, a major league baseball team executive, she moved with her two sons into the shambling 1846 farmhouse. House Proud: A Minnesota Sculptor Creates an Artistic Mini-Golf Course 2012-10-10T22:00:06Z The rotting, cracking horror of the city around is spilling in over walls and just barely kept at bay by shambling armored stilt-walkers. Dishonored: Dark, Unsettling, and Riveting 2012-10-08T14:35:34Z The basic right-wing story line evokes zombie apocalypse: The shambling, diseased living dead - Obama Zombies - are threatening human civilization. Today's Economist: Nancy Folbre: Conservatives and the Zombie Apocalypse 2012-09-24T10:00:53Z About being alone in a dark corridor hurtling through an uncaring void, with mutated creatures that were once human shambling towards you. Dead Space 3 – hands-on preview 2012-07-27T13:34:49Z In case you've forgotten, he's the shambling forward whose record of one goal last season almost makes Emile Heskey look prolific. Football transfer rumours: Steve Bruce back to Wigan? 2012-05-25T08:08:33Z It is to be noted, however, that those Elizabethans who, like Chapman, Warner and Drayton, aimed at producing a warlike and Homeric effect, did so in shambling fourteen-syllable couplets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z As we neared the Inlet, where a shambling wooden hotel stands on the sandy point, the sound of the motor grew intenser. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z And no one even breathed as a shadowy figure came slowly shambling out of the dusk into the crimson light of the fire. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z He was a shambling, shuffling, whining, servile negro, abjectly sure that some kind white gentleman would give him a pair of shoes, or at least a couple of francs. The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces 2012-03-09T03:00:18.240Z And at this moment the bear emphasized the wisdom of this advice by shambling into full sight. The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret 2012-03-07T03:00:15.897Z I could not be mistaken, though he had put off his slouching, shambling air, and was keenly on the alert, glancing from this side to that, as if he were searching for some one. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z One morning as he stood there he saw a man turn off the road and come shambling towards him. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Now it was a reinforcement of foot from Fulda, rank upon rank of shambling men trailing long pikes, and footsore, and parched as they were, getting over the ground in a wonderful fashion. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z He and a few trusty followers were waiting for the official announcement of Ireland's disgrace in their depot--a shambling set of outhouses situated near Merchant's Quay. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Their especial spokesman was a shambling orphan lad of some fifteen summers, with shrewd and merry eyes. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z The other man--a shambling creature, grey-haired and blear-eyed and unwashed, with a beard of a week's growth--fell back to the table and leaned against it. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z Then a big, loosely-hung figure came shambling down the ladder, and the second withdrew. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Was it possible that this shambling and vacant manner concealed a sound mind and a great understanding? Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Crabb, hands in pockets and shoulders bent, walked with a rapid and shambling gait up the street. The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z Then, just as the drag, with its dark, pathetic burden, was disappearing around a turn of the trail, she started after it, and quickly overtook it with her ungainly, shambling run. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z MM was a young woman who also died at 18 after a short illness, but who was identified 13 years later in the town market, walking around in the characteristic detached shambling way. Scientifically Studying Real Life Zombies 2012-01-13T00:57:59Z All of the town that could be seen from the harbor wore a shambling, dingy, antiquated appearance. The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution 2012-01-09T03:00:21.297Z They were rude and bearded men, for the most part spare and sinewy, but the elder among them tramped with a shambling gait that told of unrelieved drudgery. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z Teddy came shambling into the cabin and held out a paw, suggesting sugar. The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel 2012-01-02T03:00:21.167Z The sight of him shambling along like one of the crew of H. M. S. Pinafore gave me a pleasant thrill of excitement. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z "See Jemmy Twitcher shambles—stop, stop, thief"—an allusion to his shambling gait. The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 2011-12-19T03:00:45.273Z They did, and came in sight of one—an immensely great brute of a Bruin—who, after stopping about a minute to study them, set off again shambling over the bergs. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z Eyes turned curiously on the shambling derelict, but the only expression on Newt's face was one of surly defiance to the world. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z "I want to see 'em when they come in," Antonio remarked, shambling towards the door, where he listened, and then went in. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z But it was no use: while still a quarter of a mile away, the strangers simultaneously wheeled about and made off with shambling gait. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z The man, shambling away round the bend in the path, presently was lost to sight. A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z "I give it up," muttered the operative, shrugging his arms into a threadbare coat and shambling out of the disreputable rooming house which passed for home. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z Abruptly, the whole course of their association spread itself before her, up to her last glimpse of him, that morning, shambling on his way to the miserable daily duty to which he had sunk. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z The beast meanwhile came sniffing and shambling along toward where they were, so that evidently he had not been frightened. Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young 2011-11-17T03:00:36.810Z Sammy--who looked his character, every inch of it!--was a lanky, shambling youth, apparently eighteen or nineteen years old. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z But come!"—he pulled his shambling figure out of the chair and stood before the fire almost erect—"life is nobler than men thought. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z And people like to imagine that when the zombie apocalypse comes, they’ll be among the brave, resourceful few standing against the shambling — or, God forbid, sprinting — hordes of the undead. The Real Reason Zombies Never Die 2011-10-17T09:30:57Z The last introduction was to a shambling, awkward young miner. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z The true Lincoln consists not only of the humble man, of homely face, gaunt form, shambling limbs, quaint utterance, rude story and humble way. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z The animal was led away with a shambling gait to the sacred shambles, where the Roman priest was waiting to set his hand to any Bull that might be presented to him. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z Suddenly he paused, hearing with relief the shambling footsteps of the returning concierge, a relief rudely dashed with fear of the message she might be bringing. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z A shambling step came to his ears, came nearer and nearer; he jumped up in time to meet a tottering figure at the door. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z The boys drew long breaths of relief when the shambling figure of the last bear disappeared. Boy Scouts in the Northwest Fighting Forest Fires 2011-09-22T02:00:25.017Z Some there were of the old men, indeed the majority of them, who wrapping their blankets about them arose, and shambling, withdrew, aloof and soundless. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z He advanced with a shambling walk and with deprecating gestures in keeping with his disguise; but Sybil formed the opinion that all his nervousness was not simulated. The Duke Decides 2011-09-14T02:00:47.307Z There was a moment's pause, and then the father pulled his shambling figure up. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Huish was always bustling, or at least shambling with alacrity; whereas Gabriel went about his lightest business with ponderous deliberation and puzzled frown. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z The old porter happening to glance over his shoulder saw her coming, and broke into a shambling trot, determined to obtain the moral support of Young Tom before another encounter. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z Once he found himself shambling; it horrified him, for it was so that tramps and outcasts walked. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z It was a low-roofed, shambling building, planned for the delectation of the barge-man and the roustabout and now throbbing with their daily—and nightly—pleasures. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z His description—Long grey hair, restless eye, peculiar ears, walks with a shambling gait, and has a melancholy expression of countenance. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z They were May Fisher, Valentine Browne, the Rev. Felix St. Bees, and a tall, ill-dressed, shambling fellow hanging in the rear, whom they called Augustus. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z Billy Ricks, shambling after dandelion greens, stepped out of the road to let a great, olive-green touring car go tearing by and bounce over the railroad track. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z I want no better friend than the black boy who was raised by my side, and who is now trudging patiently, with downcast eyes and shambling figure, through his lowly way in life. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z The rolling, shambling gait that characterizes the badger is doubtless the origin of this absurd theory, which might be equally applied to any other member of the bear family. The Badger A Monograph 2011-07-25T02:00:12.053Z Rick first appeared, a starveling puppy with a large frame and weak, shambling legs, before the windows of a charitable Scotswoman, who was a lover of dogs and a person of sensibility. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z In contrast to these characters, the shambling, fawning, villanous hypocrisy of Uriah Heep is a piece of intense and elaborate workmanship, almost cruelly done without being overdone. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z He saw before him a loosely hung, shambling sort of youth, commonplace of aspect, and in no wise over-burdened with practical intelligence. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z Not a word passed between them; but keeping a vigilant look-out, they trudged on with quick, shambling steps. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z “Lord, what an ape,” remarked Justice, gazing after the departing form of the negro shambling along the road, “he looks like the things you see in nightmares.” The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road or, Glorify Work 2011-06-23T02:00:25.403Z Coleridge tried to frame his thoughts into words, as he strode homeward with his loose shambling gait, continually shifting from one side of the path to the other after his notorious "corkscrew" habit. A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2011-06-08T02:00:18.910Z He got to his feet, with unaccustomed awkwardness, and went into the living-room with shambling steps wholly unlike his usual elastic tread. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z The shambling figure straightened; the dull eyes grew steady; the bold self-possession she remembered well on another occasion again marked his bearing. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z "Onery nor a dog!" hissed Jack, shambling off, and once more taking a long deep dive under the surface of the crowd. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z The two men-at-arms drew the gabardines of the peasants over their armour, so that they closely resembled the thick-set, shambling Normans, and shouldering their heavy baskets, they advanced boldly towards the outwork. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z "He who goes trembling will come back shambling." The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Did you notice an odd-looking, shambling man with preposterous spectacles who spoke to her? A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z Up the Mount with shambling step, head down-bent and the same stupid expression on his face, the mountebank went docilely, though not silently. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z The shambling party drew closer and he saw that she was constructed with a windowed cabin forward to house pilots and passengers. Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman 2011-04-14T02:00:39.800Z Davy Fayle came shambling into the tent on some pretended errand. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z He stooped considerably, and moved along with a shambling gait. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z He came in, swinging his greasy coat-tails about his shambling legs. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z The doctor and Jim Dennis were standing on the verandah, and saw him tooling his team along at a shambling gallop. Settling Day 2011-03-08T03:00:36.623Z Presently the trader came off in a canoe, and, shambling along the deck, went down below to give in his report. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z Every man rose to his feet, and picking up his waterproofs or his long sea-boots, one after one went shambling out. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z Next comes the rattling of wheels, and a cab turns the corner at as near an approach to a gallop as the shambling horse can manage. Friends I Have Made 2011-02-25T03:01:14.587Z Now and then he would encounter a policeman, who turned to look after the slow, shambling figure. Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes 2011-02-25T03:01:05.303Z In contrast to urban planners caught up in political wrangling, budget constraints and bureaucratic shambling, Fetterman embraces a do-it-yourself aesthetic and a tendency to put up his own money to move things along. Mayor of Rust 2011-02-11T05:01:03Z The usual pace is a shambling trot, but when pressed elks break into a gallop. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z An off-hand, matter-of-fact, shambling method of speech would seem to be the fashion in the British House of Commons. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z It suggests a leonine order of values from which the shambling citizen is debarred. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z He broke off, and went shambling over to the box-office and asked for the chamois. A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z Thus the gorilla runs with a sidelong shambling gait, but more commonly 143progresses by resting on its bent hands. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z The latter, sheepish as to the face and with shambling legs, advanced into the room. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z When Steve came shambling into the yard, blinking at the sunlight, she told him that Conal had returned and that he had gone down to the Black Bull, but would be back by the evening. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z Sponsors of the French national team are quickly heading for the hills after the team's World Cup shambling, with Credit Agricole and fast-food company Quick pulling advertisements. The Fiver 2010-06-25T10:35:00Z Having overseen a massive and shambling overhaul of the gambling laws, Labour, one imagines, might seek to finalise some of the now-stalled aspects of their project. Muddled manifestos mean gambling will thrive 2010-04-29T06:00:00Z Angus was a big, rather shambling, man with a powerful voice whose presence filled the room. Sir Michael Angus obituary 2010-04-15T17:50:00Z Matt is gangling and shambling - he's like a terrible mess that somehow becomes elegant by magic, he said. New Doctor Who series premiered 2010-03-19T02:17:00Z To gain access, a thousand ways he tries Oft in the hind, the lover would disguise, The heedless lout comes shambling on, and seems Just sweating from the labour of his teams. Heathen Mythology In the dawn we saw hyenas shambling homeward after their night's prowl. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open Soon it got on all four legs again, and began shambling about, without knowing where it was going. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 He trudged away into the shadows, but presently, as the new master of Damory Court stood in the gloomy hall, he heard the shambling step again behind him. The Valiants of Virginia He was wise enough to see that the odds were against him, and made off at a shambling gallop which the hunters found it difficult to keep up with. In Paths of Peril A Boy's Adventures in Nova Scotia It called a name, which brought into the courtroom, with shambling and uncertain step, a man whose face was pasty with prison pallour. The Tempering His own dark superstitions had hold of him, and his shambling search through the darkened corridors had stretched his nerves to the absolute breaking-point. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery In the meantime it came shambling along the shore towards us, so we lay down quietly behind the kayaks and waited. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 This big, shambling, world-wearied Count, who is, nevertheless, afraid of me? The Moonlit Way The sound of wheels on the wet gravel and the shambling cloppity-clop of horses' hoofs, had indeed announced the arrival of the "coach." Nancy of Paradise Cottage Painfully shambling down the steps, Victoria got off the bus and entered the Green Park. A Bed of Roses He walked even more stooped forward than was usually his case, shambling, his feet turned out at wide angles. The Broken Gate A Novel Curtis expected to find Brisbane a poor shambling wreck of a man, morose and sorrowful to look upon, and his astonishment was correspondingly profound as the ex-Senator descended from the train. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop Accepting his dismissal meekly, he went shambling off to the side entrance from the road. A Traitor's Wooing One of the best known poems in this volume is "The Gravedigger," which opens thus: Oh, the shambling sea is a sexton old, And well his work is done. Later Poems Not a dish; no, a bulging, kneaded, crooked, shambling, squint-cornered, amorphous botch,—a mere enameled vessel of dishonor! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII And presently she was sensible that his shambling figure was passing away down the street under the checkered shadows of the maples. The Broken Gate A Novel For an hour they rode in silence, their panting steeds maintaining a shambling gait through the sand, that was neither a trot nor a lope, but a mixture of the two. Campmates A Story of the Plains He saw only half a dozen pedestrians—shambling creatures who appeared to seek the plentiful darkness. The Gray Mask The other was a big, shambling old man, a dark man gone gray, his face needing the kindly, yellowish-brown eyes to save it from sternness. Ewing\\'s Lady He struggled up and climbed anyhow into trousers, coat, and shoes, and set off at a shambling trot, with no clear notion of what he meant to do but keeping the larrikin in sight. Where the Pavement Ends He was well intrenched, and all opponents, such as this shambling giant with the red beard and nondescript carriage, must attack in the open. The Broken Gate A Novel Old Hesketh was shambling along on a correspondingly veteran steed, but he had no firearm. Harley Greenoak's Charge And, perhaps, the shambling creature outside had put the inspector's party on the wrong track. The Gray Mask I am not even sure that I did not once or twice hear the voice of old Gasitye, and behold his spidery old form shambling among the trees. The Induna's Wife Up a well-nigh perpendicular rock-face, sprawling, shambling like a tarantula on a wall, a huge male baboon was making his way. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance A few eyes turned from the adequate figure of Judge Henderson to the loose and shambling form of the man who edged in to the front of the table. The Broken Gate A Novel All of a sudden, led by about a dozen of the largest, the whole troop of hairy monsters came shambling forward—gibbering and gnashing their great tusks in unpleasantly suggestive fashion. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt Not pausing for a second blow, the enraged brute drove on, eventually shambling through the line of natives, who opened their ranks gladly to let him pass. The Ruined Cities of Zululand Several blue cranes were shambling along just off our way, and the incessant cooing of doves, near and far, blended melodiously with the fair and peaceful evening scene. A Veldt Vendetta Jenkins must have felt it also, for he took the last few steps in a shambling, wide-armed leap, as if he were welcoming it. Castle of Terror The plowman drops the traces on the shambling oxen's backs turns his head and stares wistfully after the train. A Pushcart at the Curb The leaping, bounding crowd of hideous barbarians came shambling down like a troop of apes, in hot pursuit, eagerly anticipating the sport of tearing limb from limb the two white invaders. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt The tailor sits till the stomach and bowels becomes disordered, the spine twisted, the gait shambling, and the power of taking the exercise necessary to health obliterated. The Night Side of London If Conan was a figure out of the dawn of Time, Olmec was a shambling, somber shape from the darkness of Time's pre-dawn. Red Nails They leaped and danced round him on their awkward legs and shambling feet, bit and barked at each other, and rolled on the floor in a heap. Anne And they go walking with soft, shambling steps from ledge to ledge. The Three Mulla-mulgars No farmer, however elegant, will, any longer choose to study agriculture in hexameters, or even in Tusser’s shambling metre. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" It was from a young buck, and would eat well—he went on, in his shambling, diffident way. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion She was rewarded by a slap that half stunned her, and Olmec quickened his pace to a shambling run. Red Nails Just about this time a visitor from the hills had come shambling down to the river-edge,—one of the great black bears of the Quahdavic valley. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life At that moment I saw old Jens pass the window as he came shambling through the churchyard. What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told by Herself Robinson was now going towards the door with his soft, light, though rather shambling movements. The New Warden Your face alone is worth a thousand a year, and you have a shuffling, shambling way of coming into a room that's better than an account at Coutts's. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day His legs were widely bowed, and his gait had that slouching, shambling motion, so indicative of an education cultivated among horses and stable-men. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago She could not fail to recognize the large, shambling figure. Jan Vedder's Wife But when he turned, he saw that the camel, probably startled by the shot, was already on its feet, and shambling along the road in the direction from which he had come. Barclay of the Guides Their shambling gait and crippled figures,—the terrible evidence of their malady,—twisted limbs, contorted into every horrible variety of lameness, hands with deficient fingers, faces without noses, are the ordinary symbols. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas We shook our jaded mounts into a shambling trot and reached it at that hour which ushers in the short November dusk. The Portal of Dreams The latter, especially, make broad paths through the jungle by their heavy tread and shambling gait, leveling the undergrowth right and left as effectually as could be done by an army of bushwhacking road-makers. The Pearl of India "Here, pardner, I'll take a cupful o' that 'ere, too," said a frazzled and frowsy teamster, shambling up through the half-light of the dawn. Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign There was but one animal in that forest world that moved with shambling gait, and whose paws could rake the snow in such a manner. In the Brooding Wild A shambling step along the floor of my hall one evening, long past nine o'clock, aroused me from thoughts of Hosley, the man whose image filled my home hours with a creeping shame and dread. Cupid's Middleman A hundred patent things testified that this shambling tramp of the seas had received a mortal hurt. The Portal of Dreams Past the quiescent, sweat reeking bodies of the bull-muscled guards, into the dimly lit chamber beyond, Bruhlla half walking, half shambling before her. The Women-Stealers of Thrayx He stood irresolute for a moment, then turned and struck off across the fields, his shambling gait increasing the unfavorable impression that Peggy had instantly formed. Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted It turns from its victim with shambling but swiftly moving gait, growling and snarling with terrible ferocity as it goes, but never hesitating. In the Brooding Wild On hearing it, the well-trained quadruped wheeled, as upon a pivot, and in a shambling, but quick pace, started back towards the ravine, whence it had late issued. The Boy Slaves One day a big, angular, shambling girl, with Margret's suspicious eyes and cynical mouth, crossed by the ferry to the Island. An Isle in the Water He lowered his weapon; and, heedless that we also might be armed, he leaped nimbly past Mary's prostrate form and came shambling over the rocks directly for me! Astounding Stories, July, 1931 But when the guard gestured again with his rifle, Musto broke into a shambling run. Take the Reason Prisoner He raised it over his head and brought the thing to Ch'aka at a shambling run. The Ethical Engineer And as he came shambling forward he held up, so that all could see it, the ball that had been only too well aimed when it had hit the gray horse. The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out They were six in number, shambling gallows-birds; but for once the proverb was right, cruelty was coupled with cowardice, and the wretches cursed him and made off. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) With the awkward movements of the newly blind, he got slowly to his feet, and went shambling onward. The Wilderness Trail Behind, at the same gait, came a tall, shambling man, what appeared to be a girl some twelve years of age in tattered calico, and shoeless, and a droop-eared, forlorn, yellow hound. The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended My father regards this life “as a shambling sort of omnibus which is taking him to his hotel.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) It was therefore with a feeling of positive relief that they perceived shambling towards them the uncouth figure of the station-master. His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts At the first sound, Mary was at the door flying a handkerchief by way of answer, and the old long-legged serving-man was shambling down the gravel to the pier. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI A dog came shambling along the path, showed its teeth, snarled, sprang on one side, and, with bristling hair, fled for its life. Byways of Ghost-Land It was a huge green umbrella, and beneath it was the rather shambling figure of the old gentleman whom she had saved from possible accident at this very crossing some weeks before. The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended Then Harris one evening stumbled upon a tapir, just as the great animal had forded the river and was shambling into the bush opposite. Carmen Ariza Unnoticed, an old, shambling negro had approached across the field, and was gazing in wide-eyed dismay at the china vase under her arm. Kildares of Storm He let the big, homely, almost shambling figure in without a word. Prologue to an Analogue The sensitiveness of youth had steeled itself in irony; he was impatient of delusions and exaltations, and scornful of the shambling, shame-faced motives that moved so many of the people who came under his observation. Tante If he were not such an ugly, shambling cub some recruiting sergeant might pick him up. The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam Once he did hear shambling feet on the very steps outside. The Camera Fiend His feet were large and flat, and his knees touched as the one passed the other, and the Seminary was honestly ashamed at the sight of him shambling across the North Meadow. Young Barbarians When travelling they have a shambling sort of gait, half walk, half amble, but manage to get over the ground very quickly, and for such cumbersome animals are very nimble-footed. Burma Peeps at Many Lands But no one who knew Hilary Grendon would have recognized him in the meek, shambling, slightly bent Earth slave who climbed the last rung of the rope ladder out of the hidden gorge. Slaves of Mercury Behind him walked his guard: behind the guard he heard Luke Evans shambling. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 From the first moment that she set eyes upon him, shambling awkwardly into the yard at her husband’s heels, Jabe Smith’s wife was inhospitable toward the ungainly youngling of the wild. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories Beyond the volcano Jim could see what looked like an expanse of ocean. e groaned, and at the sound a creature came shambling forward, carrying what looked like a huge melon in either hand. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 The driver, a tall, thin man, wearing a slouch hat, got down from the front of the wagon and walked with a shambling gait to the head of his horses and loosened their bridles. The Mountain Divide He dreamed that a huge bear appeared on the path, its shambling feet softly treading. Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield His stride lengthened and he broke into a shambling run. hen it was he saw, towering walls rising up on both sides of him—steep walls that he could never scale, even if alone. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 There was the shelter they craved; and down the fields they ran, with long, shambling, awkward strides that took them over the ground at a tremendous pace. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories But Lance waited until, crossing an open space, he saw a rider coming along at a shambling trot on the trail he had himself lately followed. Rim o' the World The shambling barn man, summoned gruffly by McAlpin, hesitated as he appeared at the office door and seemed to regard the situation with suspicion. Nan of Music Mountain Then he moved forward with a terrible, shambling gait, his head lowered, a dark, misshapen shadow seeming to lengthen before him on the sand like a spindle of flame. The Man the Martians Made His step was more shambling than ever, and his hands, clutching his hat-brim, trembled more than her gnarled, palsied ones. The Crevice At this moment the young bull, who had been searching in vain all over the farm for Jabe, came up to the door with a silent, shambling rush. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories Since the Bald-faced Kid's retirement from the turf the Curry secret-service department had consisted of Shanghai and Mose, and there were times when the shambling hostler could be much wiser than he looked. Old Man Curry Race Track Stories In a moment they were gone; but the shambling central figure with its vacant face stayed with her to accentuate her distress. Polly of Lady Gay Cottage The shambling tread of the bear, or whatever it was, had brought it closer, and she saw that it was all white, glittering in the moonlight like a snowdrift. Shaman He was as erect as Pennold was shambling and stoop-shouldered, and although gray and lined of features, his eyes were clear and more steady, his chin more firm, his whole bearing more elastic and forceful. The Crevice They were presently joined by Susan, shambling on her ungainly legs, wagging her big ears, and stretching out her long, ugly, flexible, overhanging nose to sniff inquiringly at the Boy’s jacket. The Backwoodsmen Boss Stobart stood directly in the path of the shambling figure. In the Musgrave Ranges “Most interesting,” said Captain Sartoris, shambling forward in his marvellous garb, and taking hold of the Maori girl’s hand. The Tale of Timber Town The shambling backwoodsman held his coonskin cap in his hand as he approached the witness chair. Shaman This odd formation gives it an awkward shambling manner of walking, which is both ludicrous and hideous. Harper's Young People, May 11, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly So the two of them, without guard, went off together, Robin driving his shambling horse and rickety cart beside the Sheriff's little fat brown pony. Robin Hood Out of the house door slouched a year-old hound puppy with shambling feet and lean ribs. The Roof Tree A lean boy on horseback, without saddle or bridle and guiding the shambling colt he rode by a halter strap, led the van. Battling the Clouds or, For a Comrade's Honor Barely eluding his rush, she went shambling up the shore at a terrific pace, plunged into the woods, and vanished. Kings in Exile He turned and went shambling down the hall, his back very stiff, his ears very red. What's-His-Name "You don't look it," grinned Howard, as he advanced further into the room with shambling, uncertain steps. The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life Nan followed them, and tried to keep step with Mr. Trinder’s shambling footsteps, as he walked between the girls with a hot perplexed face, and still muttering to himself at intervals. Not Like Other Girls But it was neither the lithe leaping form of a deer, nor the uncouth shambling bulk of swamp bear that broke from the cover a moment later. Heart of the Blue Ridge Jase, thus deserted, went shambling back to the cellar and fell to sprouting potatoes with what might almost be termed industry. The Ranch at the Wolverine The shambling old store-houses are crammed with fish, and the heads of fish and the back-bones of fish lie bleaching on the rocks. The Land of Thor A shambling troop of sixteen or eighteen, they quit the room, and enter a small paved yard, preceded by the young man with the lantern. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France A wide gang plank was now being lowered from the boat, and as it touched the bank the boy stepped quickly aboard, followed by the wet, shambling Bear. The Arkansaw Bear A Tale of Fanciful Adventure I remember his appearance, and his feeble, shambling gait as he approached the close of an illustrious life. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century The cattle were before her, shambling along the fenced border of a meadow. The Ranch at the Wolverine Point out how these sentences have been made to hold together, and how their own shambling creations can be corrected. English: Composition and Literature "I met up with these here Britishers when they came in on the train from the East, an' I'm goin' t' enlist," admitted the shambling Joe, his breath confirming his appearance. A Man of Two Countries He had a good excuse now to get away from the shambling peasants whom he hated and who returned the attitude wholeheartedly—the typical provincial's hatred of culture and learning. Strange Alliance For some time, the horsemen could not perceive that they were gaining on the camelopards trotting before them in long shambling strides. The Giraffe Hunters At this moment the sound of heavy shambling footsteps was heard on the stairs. Nobody's Girl (En Famille) The result is that, within a few weeks, an awkward and perhaps shuffling, shambling young man is trained and built into the erect, alert, snappy and dignified soldier. Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks or, Two Recruits in the United States Army Despite the bear's lumbering body and shambling gait he can be spry enough at need. Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants or, Handling Their First Real Commands After him came half a dozen men with shambling gait. The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin There was nothing weak or shambling in those six feet three inches. The Birthright His successor was a shambling, red-nosed, not sailor-like looking man, who had persuaded a counterpart of himself, the village barber, to accompany him as his steward. A Sailor of King George Then one lonely and pathetic figure, with bent head and shambling gait, grew smaller down the great white waste of prairie. Lorimer of the Northwest The long lines of stately, shambling camels, the great droves of sheep herded by wild-looking men on sturdy little ponies told of an open country. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Coming out into the narrow winding lane beyond the lodge gates, Paul saw ahead of him a shambling downcast figure, proceeding up the slope. The Orchard of Tears The shambling figure had a menace for her. Love of Brothers A relic supported by so much history should at least be genuine—the history may be all right, but the tooth is a shambling hoax, at best a crude proxy for the molar of Gautama. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Layroh was abruptly interrupted by a scream of maniacal fury from Olsen, a shambling Swede who stood near the edge of the group. The Cavern of the Shining Ones With this shambling apology,—which, really, is no apology at all,—I lay my book on your knees. When Winter Comes to Main Street He returned to the front of the house, shambling like a somnambulist. The Day Time Stopped Moving There was terror in their faces, and the sight of the revolver held threateningly in the officer's hand sent them past at a shambling trot. With Haig on the Somme As the creatures came shambling rapidly forward on powerful bowed legs, and with the tips of their long hairy arms brushing the ground, they looked like grotesquely distorted apes. Zehru of Xollar Hardly had Waggie made his theatrical entrance 33 into the kitchen before a lean, prematurely shriveled man of fifty, whose long shaggy beard proclaimed him a veritable countryman, came shambling into the room. Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War The boy moved on, with a shambling kind of gait, and to Mr. Carlisle's horror, paused at the form of Eleanor's class. The Old Helmet, Volume II He merely remarked that the dispatch appeared to be all right and walked out again in his peculiar shambling way. The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code He was running—shambling now—along a road. Uncanny Tales The crowning horror of those shambling figures, however, lay in the fact that they were completely headless! Zehru of Xollar Did he drive a shambling old horse?" inquired Oliver, remembering suddenly the person he had noticed on the road, "and a wagon that rattled as though it were twenty years old? The Windy Hill Old Belle was the oldest horse on the farm, a shambling, half-blind creature whose days of work had long been over. Rainbow Hill During this little interchange a procession of men streaming homeward in their hundreds came walking down the Embankment in twos and threes or singly, shambling past the loosely gathered assemblage about the bench. The Convert He leaned heavily on his cane, and took a shambling step toward the door. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan His attention was abruptly recalled to the headless things in front of him as they suddenly began shambling forward again. Zehru of Xollar He was tall, lean, gaunt in figure, with a shambling walk, and his skin was tough and leathery; but in spite of all there was an honest, manly expression, which instantly inspired confidence. In A New World or, Among The Gold Fields Of Australia He did not know why, but he had a sensation that Fate, loose-limbed, big-boned, furtive, was shambling over the grass towards his guest. Tongues of Conscience The next morning after the interview with Jim Crill Bob was at the hardware store assembling the implements he had bought, when a tall, shambling hill billy sauntered up. The Desert Fiddler He scarcely saw a shambling poorly-dressed rather wasted man whom he passed, and who afterwards stumbled along a very little way behind him. Littlebourne Lock Moving with the perfect synchronization of a single unit, one of the main groups came shambling in, followed an instant later by the other group. Zehru of Xollar A quick step, yet shambling, came along the lobby. The House with the Green Shutters The ghost of slavery haunts the houses; and the old, untidy, incapable, lounging, shambling black serves you as a free man. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 Not long afterward, while the three in the cabin were playing cards and Tom was preparing lunch, Jarrow came shambling aft, and without a word went over the side and into the long boat. Isle o' Dreams Robert stopped in his shambling walk and stared at her. The Proud Prince Reforming their ranks, they again began cautiously shambling forward in a new attack that Blake realized would probably mean the end. Zehru of Xollar He turned toward the fir forest, at a walk which presently broke into a shambling, rapid trot; and presently he disappeared among the sombre and shadowy colonnades. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Constance watched the two as they walked away together, the handsome lithe form of the younger man in such marked contrast with the shambling gait of the detective. The Diamond Coterie The screws are fixed, and the straps are tied, And he looks sharp out for the shambling stagger, The elbows wobbling, the knees too wide. Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 Little groups of shambling fellows hulked about the corner waiting for some one to lead the way to the unaccustomed chapel. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Seen from that height he was of course fore-shortened and probably looked more shambling and decrepit than he was. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays He pressed on doggedly, at a shambling, loose-jointed, but very effective run, till it was full night and the stars came out sharply in the patches of clear, dark sky above the tree-tops. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life But then Ontario Moggs was such a long-legged, awkward, ugly, shambling fellow, and Moggs as a name was certainly not euphonious. Ralph the Heir The mothers picked up their children and carried them home whimpering; and the old men went a way with drooping heads and shambling feet. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Its slow and shambling movement is due to the fact that it has the tree-climbing foot, and is not well fitted for motion such as is required in running. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization The children scrambled in on the top of the sack, and the man bent his energies to starting his old horse once more on his shambling trot. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) Clumsy one-sided postures, fidgeting on a chair, slouching while sitting or standing, moving along at a shambling gait and speaking with the chin down on the chest produce quite the opposite effect. The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 She saw the office-boys, just growing into the age of interest in sex and acquiring husky male voices and shambling sense of shame, yearn at the shrines of pasty-faced stenographers. The Job An American Novel Most of all he was sure that the little hump-backed oddity had risen to its feet and was a veritable creature: an actual uncouth, shambling grotesque, instead of a mere flat blotch of shadow. Drolls From Shadowland He was thin and shambling, with high and prominent cheekbones and eyes that showed a lot of white at all times. Stubble Godkin speaks of Greeley’s “odd attire, shambling gait, simple, good-natured and hopelessly peaceable face, and long yellow locks.” Historical Essays The mad coyote kept straight on and Cripp followed at his own queer shambling gait. The Yellow Horde Then with awkward, shambling gait he pushed through the curious crowd at the prison gate, crossed the street, and entered the nearest public-house. The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 The homely shambling man you pass unnoticed on the street may have, tucked away in his past, a story more exciting and thrilling than anything you have ever read in fiction. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 Ransom, shambling behind them, crept in and knelt at the foot of the bed. Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 "Come in!" said Hildegarde, rising, though she was not attracted either by the voice, nor by the lad's shambling, uncivil manner,—"come in, and I will get you something to eat." Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls From a dry spot behind a log Anse lifted his rifle and started over the ridge with the long, shambling gait of the born hill-climber that eats up the miles. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights But he was halted by a shambling, dark figure that appeared on the slope leading down into the ravine. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness A stranger of about fourteen was walking towards them, or perhaps "shambling" would be a better description of her method of progress. A harum-scarum schoolgirl On hearing it the well-trained quadruped wheeled, as upon a pivot, and in a shambling, but quick pace, started back towards the ravine, whence it had late issued. The Boy Slaves What was strange to us, they did not gallop, as most deer do, but went off in a sort of shambling trot, like a ‘pacing’ horse, and quite as fast as a horse could gallop. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness One by one the franc-tireurs came shambling up to pay their awkward respects to Lorraine and to Jack, while Tricasse pulled his bristling mustache and clattered his sabre in its sheath approvingly. Lorraine A romance A warrior surely would not come walking in a manner that soon became shambling. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness Once more the half-witted, shambling figure gave place to a sparkling, self-possessed, laughing young witch of fourteen, who with another mock curtsy introduced herself. A harum-scarum schoolgirl She, too, came shambling up whenever she heard her name, and, with a grunt, acknowledged their bounty. Mushrooms on the Moor The porter, his waistcoat gaping, came shambling over to him. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories A dark shambling figure approaching the spot decided him, and having accomplished the feat it was only to find experience repeating itself. Men of Affairs Instead, a shambling figure poked its head through the thicket and looked curiously at him out of little red eyes. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness At the moment there was nothing familiar to me in the tall, thin figure, nothing more than I should have seen in any other lank, shambling waiter waving a napkin and a bill-of-fare. David Malcolm A bear on its hind legs, slow, shambling, rolling its loose shoulders, was stretching a paw towards him. The Lost Girl Queer, shambling sort of fellow, all hair and eyes, with the scar of an old cut, or something, across one side of his face. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories The college "grind" with bulging forehead, round shoulders, myopic vision and shambling gait is well known in every college, and serves as the butt of innumerable practical jokes. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 He looked in the direction in which the shambling animal had gone, but there was no sign of him. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness But they recognized the shambling creature who followed him as Bud Billings, and they shouted with laughter when they saw he had a sponge and bucket! The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills Gone was the hopeless misery, gone were the shambling gait, the pathetic smile, the helplessness of resignation to overwhelming conditions. The Music Master Novelized from the Play |
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