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- adverb With a
shambling motion.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And they went, sullenly, shamblingly, like the cowed brutes they were.
CHAPTER V 2010
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Bill Pullman, who plays John, is on the other hand shamblingly professorial from the first scene.
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Bill Pullman, who plays John, is on the other hand shamblingly professorial from the first scene.
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Bill Pullman, who plays John, is on the other hand shamblingly professorial from the first scene.
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If Parlabane's mind was usually like a Gary Larson cartoon, then today it must look like the one with all the cows, dinosaurs, snakes and hornrim-bespectacled matrons piled shamblingly on top of one another
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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As the Bishop drove shamblingly along down the road, deeply preoccupied in his forthcoming sermon, there came from out of a hole, situated somewhere between the grizzled fringe of hair that marked
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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As he sat still on the moss-grown pale, gloomy and taciturn, his mother standing beside him, with her cap awry, Mr. Leslie shamblingly sauntered up, and said in a pensive dolorous whine --
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various
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There was Lord Moleyn, who had stayed on to the disorganised, passoverish meal that took the place of dinner on this festal day; he one-stepped shamblingly, his bent knees more precariously wobbly than ever, with a terrified village beauty.
Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928
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There was Lord Moleyn, who had stayed on to the disorganised, passoverish meal that took the place of dinner on this festal day; he one-stepped shamblingly, his bent knees more precariously wobbly than ever, with a terrified village beauty.
Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1921
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And they went, sullenly, shamblingly, like the cowed brutes they were.
Chapter 5 1914
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