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Definition of Shambled
1. shamble [v] - See also: shamble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shambled
Literary usage of Shambled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blind Alley: Being the Picture of a Very Gallant Gentleman; the Adventures by Walter Lionel George (1919)
"... by raising among men that shambled with fever- leaded feet, filthy with sores,
crawling with vermin, the standard of the forgotten St. George . ..."
2. It is Never Too Late to Mend: A Matter-of-fact Romance by Charles Reade (1869)
"Away went his compunction, and at peep of day he shambled out very stiff, no
longer dreading, but longing, to hear which of his enemies it was he had seen ..."
3. With the Conquering Turk: Confessions of a Bashibazouk by George Warrington Steevens (1897)
"They only spread out a little to left of the village, and shambled on. ...
Still firing they shambled into the village, and they shambled out of it the ..."
4. With the Conquering Turk: Confessions of a Bashibazouk by George Warrington Steevens (1897)
"They only spread out a little to left of the village, and shambled on. ...
Still firing they shambled into the village, and they shambled out of it the ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1858)
"Losely, who, in his small way, had posite direction—shambled on, foot- ill the
liberality of a Catiline, " alieni sore and limping, along the wide, ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1897)
"Shame was in their faces, burning hatred in their hearts, as they shambled
homewards to die; but what was their misery to mine? None could give me tidings ..."
7. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1916)
"... between whom there shambled rather than walked our unhappy friend Ernest, with
staring eyes, ghastly pale, and with despair branded upon every line of ..."
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