So too with the apparent shambling of his act: it is just that, a put-on.

His gait was a shambling of eagerness and dread.

He saw a scruffy red figure shambling toward him and recognized the young neffaler he had met a few days ago in this very same park.

Then the captain turned and slowly left the bridge under the eyes of his stunned crew, shambling rather than walking, as if he were already a dead man.

Several times, she had seen them from the window of her hut, shambling off into the night to abduct another unfortunate wretch, and heard them clicking their talons.

When Richards finally emerged - as ever it was no gladiator's entrance; just the usual shambling, dishevelled Deano - the game seemed to suddenly shift England's way.

"I'm the only one in this park that has a parasol," said Brendan Canning, co-leader the shambling, glimmering Canadian band Broken Social Scene.

Their bodies were slim and tall and well proportioned and they moved with a leisurely grace that made the human gait seem like the shambling of a crippled ape.

He tried to come at me one more time, shambling forward like a mortally-wounded bear, when he just ran out of steam and stopped, then dropped to his knees a few feet from me.

By the bright starlight I saw the, prey shambling along, a huge creature, black as ink, with coiling arms like those of a devilfish springing from its shoulders and eyes like great red lamps."

The houses looked like shambling tents of black straw, their terraces devoured by the glutton of rot, their roofs low and sloped as though faintly hovering from some old and finished war.

He went shambling along, half whimpering and not unfrequently invoking the God of Israel; but every now and then a cunning light gleamed from his eyes, and his lips became compressed with a grim significance.

The most distinguished artists of the time were the Shambling Bull Painter, whose most famous work is an aryballos with a hunting scene, the Painter of Palermo 489, and his disciple, the Columbus Painter.

But in a town where some people remember the great frizzy-haired physicist shambling around in an old sweater and no socks, no one can quite picture him tooling around in an attention-getting 40-year-old Chrysler, which is what the movie makers have been filming Mr. Matthau in.

The paper trail they have accumulated offers a panorama of the larger Holocaust, with St. Louis passengers perishing in gas chambers, shambling out of the death camps, enduring in hiding, or secretly making their way to safety in the United States or Israel.

Then he turned, and began to shamble toward the bush.

He got up and shambled out of the room, not looking back at her.

The old man shambled back into the other room and returned a moment later.

He turned around and shambled out of the office, leaving the door open behind him.

A figure of red light shambled up from the cell.

He studied them a moment, then turned and shambled off into the dark.

He shambled over and put his head in her lap.

They shambled out of the barn one at a time.

When he left, they shambled out with their drinks to see him off.

He shut up as a man came in, shambled over, and sat at their table.

Instead, they just keep shambling forward, always hungry for more.

He blinked and tried to focus on the figure shambling toward him.

Monsters will come shambling down after you one at a time.

He shambled from the room and left the obscure house.

The man shambled off into the house, and the rest of us picked our way across the front garden.

A final check of his desk and he shambled from the office.

Another figure shambled between two trees, a bit closer this time.

I shambled into the kitchen and started building up the grill.

Finally, he shambled over to his bunk and sat down.

Leaving the table, he shambled forward to examine it better.

Half again the size of a large man, the figure shambled into the eerie green light.

What shambled in through the door was nothing that Di had ever heard of.

But instead of taking a swing at him, Ed had shambled toward the door.

Nadia made a face at his back, turned and shambled away.

Feeling safe, at least for the moment, I shambled deeper into the city.

The living dead shamble through the streets, eating anything they can get their hands on.

I tried to sprint off into the night at a fast shamble.

They walked with a shamble like monkeys just down from the trees.

Then something at the edge of vision drew her in a slow shamble.

It came up the street in a sort of shamble, now fast, now slow.

He fell into a steady, easy shamble beside the horse, head hanging down.

But for all this serendipitous shamble, the best musical moments were the most controlled.

He moved again, a sort of lurching shamble, which brought the left side of his body into the light.

And watching her shamble away up the road, he stood in the sunshine and wondered.

They moved fast enough, but in a disjointed shamble, mouths slack.

When he started a shamble toward the rear corner, he saw that Harry was gone.

The old man's stiff-kneed shamble had been replaced by the stride of a much younger being.

So he adopts a humorous ape-like shamble, knees bent and feet turned out.

The horrific creatures had broken into a fast shamble, moving with a precision that spoke of a definite purpose.

The ivory Pequod was turned into what seemed a shamble; .

Afterward, his slow pace slackened to a shamble.

Alex remained out with his horses until he had finished eating, then walked back with a self-conscious shamble.

A lone, luminous figure plodded slowly along it, his half human shamble bringing him rapidly nearer.

It was a poor uncertain shamble.

Something about your shamble perplexed me.

He walks with a shamble, and his forlorn eyes slope downward at the same angle as his shoulders.

The semi-creative shamble of the current Rolling Stones, who played on the same stage last month, holds little interest for him.

Geordi looked and saw a tall, massive spider-creature shamble toward him on four legs.

The eastern end of the lower shamble ended abruptly in a three meter wide cleared space, followed by a two meter high wall.

But his mother, Donna, said she thought it was crazy and feared her son would "fall into a shamble of bones" by the age of 32.