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Definition of Tumbles
1. tumble [v] - See also: tumble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumbles
Literary usage of Tumbles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"There has been a Counter-Treaty going on at Versailles in the Interim; which
hereupon starts out, and tumbles the wholly astonished European Diplomacies ..."
2. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1864)
"... has been a Counter-Treaty going on at Versailles, in the Interim; which hereupon
starts out, and tumbles the wholly astonished European ..."
3. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"now and then a loaf tumbles out of Jupiter's bread basket. 0 tumble, come!
I 've a great appetite for you. To John Morley. Box HILL, March 28, 1876. ..."
4. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1896)
"... causing the tish to planks rested in the mud and as they soo.i got slippery
from the feet of the passers in and fro there were some ludicrous tumbles. ..."
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