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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
tumble .
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Examples
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No, saith God, you lied to me last time, I will trust you in this no longer; and withal he tumbleth the wife, the child, the estate, into
The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin
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The next step of Abraham's faith was this, he casteth himself and flingeth his soul, as I may say, upon the all-sufficient power and mercy of God for the attainment of what he desireth; he rolleth and tumbleth himself, as it were, upon the all-sufficiency of God.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South Grenville Kleiser 1910
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While one tumbleth over a Bush, another sticks fast in the Dirt; and the Children, some of them, lost their Shoes in the Mire.
The Pilgrims Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The Second Part. Paras. 700-787 1909
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And, when he doth espy ye which, he tumbleth to ye same.
A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872
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While one tumbleth over a bush, another sticks fast in the dirt; and the children, some of them, lost their shoes in the mire.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658
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No, saith God, you lied to me last time, I will trust you in this no longer; and withal he tumbleth the wife, the child, the estate into a grave.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658
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Christ Jesus therefore had a higher, and a better end, than that which you propound, in his cursing the barren fig-tree, even to shew, as himself expounds it, the mighty power of faith; and how it lays hold of things in heaven, and tumbleth before it things on earth.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658
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Did the poor pilgrims go grunting, puffing, and sighing, one tumbleth over a bush, another sticks fast in the dirt, one cries out, I am down, and another, Ho! where are you?
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658
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To answere the third obiection, besides Cabota and all other trauellers nauigations, the onely credit of M. Frobisher [46] may suffice, who lately through all these Islands of ice, and mountaines of snow, passed that way, euen beyond the gulfe that tumbleth downe from the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The puddynges can not lye still ech one ouer other tumbleth
Gammer Gurton's Needle Anonymous 1575
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