The first two hundred yards of the Sacramento Sector passed without incident, then one of the skirmishers sighted a tumblebug parked by a rotor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Past Through Tomorrow]

They don't rise above the moral level of the tumblebug.    From Wordnik.com.  [Là-bas] Reference

I could take serious interest in a tumblebug, at times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Success A Novel] Reference

"What is art to me and my way of living?" replied the tumblebug, wearily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference

"But in Philistia to make literature and to make trouble for yourself are synonyms," the tumblebug explained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference

No, no, my lad: once whatever I may do means nothing to you, and once you are really rotten, you will find the tumblebug friendly enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference

For the tumblebug was sincere in his insane doings, and all Philistia honored him sincerely, so that there was nowhere any hope for this people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference

And when the judges were prepared for judging, there came into the court a great tumblebug, rolling in front of him his loved and properly housed young ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference

But not long ago I made the discovery that, in coloring, habits, customs and general walk and conversation, the scarab of the Egyptians was none other than the common tumblebug of the Southern dirt roads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing it De Luxe] Reference

And if there be none, do you relegate me to limbo or to any other place, so long as in that place this tumblebug is not omnipotent and sincere and insane. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference

Then the Philistines who stood to this side and to that side said in indignant unison: "And we, the reputable citizenry of Philistia, are not at all in sympathy with those who would take any protest against the tumblebug as a justification of what they are pleased to call art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference

A doubt of what the tumblebug has decreed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jurgen A Comedy of Justice] Reference