Both Uses of
shamble
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- The others shambled after with a conscience-stricken air: the whole procession was not unlike Flaxman's group of the suitors tottering on towards the infernal regions under the conduct of Mercury.†
Chpt 37-39 *
- He was followed by a shambling tramp of heavy feet, and looking through the ferns Bathsheba could just discern in the wan light of daybreak a team of her own horses.†
Chpt 43-45
Definition:
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(shamble as in: she shambled along) to walk in an awkward, shuffling way