1-11) `There is a land Ellopia with much glebe and rich meadows, and rich in flocks and
shambling kine.
A shuffling quick step on the path; a running grumble of unmistakable threats; a
shambling moonlit figure seen in glimpses through the leaves, very near us for an instant, then hidden by the shrubbery as he passed within a few yards of our hiding-place.
He ran once, but the long gown clogged him so that he slowed down into a
shambling walk, and finally plumped into the heather once more.
She passed on, walking with a curious,
shambling gait, and soon she disappeared on her way to the village.
"'Show him round here.' An instant afterwards there appeared a little wizened fellow with a cringing manner and a
shambling style of walking.
They were Chinese, with expressionless, Sphinx-like faces, and they walked in peculiar
shambling fashion, dragging their feet as if the clumsy brogans were too heavy for their lean shanks.
The great head drooped more and more under its tree of horns, and the
shambling trot grew weak and weaker.
Parson Tringham had spoken truly when he said that our
shambling John Durbeyfield was the only really lineal representative of the old d'Urberville family existing in the county, or near it; he might have added, what he knew very well, that the Stoke-d'Urbervilles were no more d'Urbervilles of the true tree then he was himself.