How To Use tumblebug In A Sentence
- 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. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
- [Footnote A: it wuz "tumblebug" as he Writ it, but the parson put the Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I
- -- H.B. [11] it wuz "tumblebug" as he Writ it, but the parson put the Latten instid. i sed tother maid better meeter, but he said tha was eddykated peepl to Boston and tha would n't stan 'it no how. idnow as tha _wood_ and idnow _as_ tha wood. The Biglow Papers
- -- H.B.] [Footnote 17: it wuz 'tumblebug' as he Writ it, but the parson put the The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
- A tumblebug does not give a man dignity, since it is about the size and shape of a kitchen stool, gyro-stabilized on a single wheel. The Past Through Tomorrow
- And the tumblebug toils and pants and sweats and worries, pushing its burden up hill forever, like Sisyphus, and pretty soon some one comes along and thinks how vulgar and ugly it is, and steps on it and squashes it. Maxims and Light Verse
- The first two hundred yards of the Sacramento Sector passed without incident, then one of the skirmishers sighted a tumblebug parked by a rotor. The Past Through Tomorrow
- Jurgen now looked more attentively at this queer creature: and he saw that the tumblebug was malodorous, certainly, but at bottom honest and well-meaning; and this seemed to Jurgen the saddest thing he had found among the Philistines. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
- A tumblebug came next, heaving sturdily at its ball, and Tom touched the creature, to see it shut its legs against its body and pretend to be dead. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- 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. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
