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Stumblingly   Listen
adverb
Stumblingly  adv.  In a stumbling manner.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Stumblingly" Quotes from Famous Books



... supremely able technician in his pot-boiling days and that the color and handling of his early pictures were greatly admired by so brilliant a virtuoso as Diaz. But this "flowery manner" would not lend itself to the expression of his new aims and he had to invent another. He did so stumblingly at first, and the earliest pictures of his grand style have a certain harshness and ruggedness of surface and heaviness of color which his critics could not forgive any more than the Impressionists, who have outdone that ruggedness, can forgive him his frequent ...
— Artist and Public - And Other Essays On Art Subjects • Kenyon Cox

... pons asinorum of life. Wise men somehow cross it, though stumblingly, and with tears. Fools, usurers, oppressors, and spendthrifts of life are left gaping and wrangling on the hellward side. Thinkers have always been climbing up on each other's shoulders to look over into the Beyond. ...
— The Warriors • Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown



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