From his shambling I assumed he was very old. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A stranger of about fourteen was walking towards them, or perhaps "shambling" would be. From Wordnik.com. [A harum-scarum schoolgirl] Reference
After him came half a dozen men with shambling gait. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
Could that shambling, weary figure approaching be Mark?. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
A step fell upon the floor; a shambling, tottering footstep. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
Her entourage followed her, shambling a little, and blank-eyed. From Wordnik.com. [That Sweet Little Old Lady] Reference
He was a slender, pale, shambling man with thin, light hair, and. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
"I've allays said so," Joseph answered, shambling a little nearer. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
"I don't feel right peart to-day," he said, shambling off down the path. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
Gladly did the woman turn to the shambling old man who came forward again. From Wordnik.com. [Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat] Reference
While shambling through the forest one day Mother Bruin made a wonderful discovery. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
Above, the shambling steps of Martin Morley sounded as he made his preparations for bed. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
As their host began his shambling approach, all three women's heads turned to observe him. From Wordnik.com. [Three Corpse Brunch: Part One] Reference
His back seemed oddly familiar to Piang, as well as the slinking gait, the shambling step. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference
Janet, striding along the wood-path beyond the Light, heard the shambling steps behind her. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
Yet in his shambling, easy-going way, old Jim had drifted into nearly every heart in the camp. From Wordnik.com. [Bruvver Jim's Baby] Reference
No less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger has commented on Johnson's shambling elocution. From Wordnik.com. [A Race to Remember] Reference
"What I said yesterday," mumbled Joseph, shambling by the nobleman's side, a little in the rear. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
He went off, shambling along with his face turned toward the sky and his feet taking care of themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference
The crowning horror of those shambling figures, however, lay in the fact that they were completely headless!. From Wordnik.com. [Zehru of Xollar] Reference
Old Belle was the oldest horse on the farm, a shambling, half-blind creature whose days of work had long been over. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
The complexion is sallow and unhealthy, the limbs imperfectly developed, and the gait is awkward, shambling, and unsteady. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
His attention was abruptly recalled to the headless things in front of him as they suddenly began shambling forward again. From Wordnik.com. [Zehru of Xollar] Reference
Gaston saw them go, side by side, Jude shambling as usual, Joyce stepping as if hastening to receive something long-desired. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
I hadn't expected a woman, and was surprised when I saw the largest, most ungainly person I have ever met come shambling toward me. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Woman Homesteader] Reference
Let the giraffes wander the lot's edges, their shambling grace on display as they nibble the offerings of the surrounding trees. From Wordnik.com. [My Totally Awesome Funeral] Reference
Her gait was clumsy and shambling, and, with her tail whisking to and fro all the time, she made an odd and undignified appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
His face was ugly as a satyr's, and he had an awkward, shambling walk, so that he invited the shafts of the comic poets of his time. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Whereupon the startled animals broke into a shambling canter for a few yards till for very weariness they dropped again into a walk. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
For thirty-six hours there was hardly a break in the procession shambling towards the great hill on which stand the ruins of Herod's. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
They found the stores small and mostly unpainted, and the houses principally shambling and squatty, most of them having thatched roofs. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World in Ten Days] Reference
Today, chimpanzees are viewed not as unlucky reminders of some shambling caveman past, but as smart and fascinating in their own right. From Wordnik.com. [From Savage to Savvy: A New Understanding of Chimps] Reference
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