fumbly

Updated: July 3, 2025

To induce clearer consciousness she instinctively parted the mosquito curtains, slipped her feet down over the side of the bed; and, a little crouched together and fumbly baby-fashion being still under the comfortable empire of sleep, crossed the room and set back the inward opening casements of the south window.

Lucas Malet - Deadham Hard

This morning he had the craving badly, and the sense of not knowing how weighed down his spirit. His drawings, his models they were all so bad, so fumbly. If only this had been his twenty-first birthday, and he had his money, and could do what he liked. He would not stay in England. He would be off to Athens, or Rome, or even to Paris, and work till he COULD do something.

John Galsworthy - The Dark Flower