| 1. | labour We blunder ever, and poren in the fire. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 2. | In another plate, the prodigious blunder is made of representing the whale with perpendicular flukes. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 3. | He wagged huge beard, huge face over his blunder huge. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 4. | "I assure you it is just as hateful to me to fail in a case as it can be to you to blunder over a commission.. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 5. | The big eyes told Tom his blunder and he stopped, confused. - from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| 6. | "Oh no, the meeting is certainly to-day," was the abrupt answer, which denoted the impossibility of any blunder on Mrs. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 7. | "You are in luck.--Your only blunder was confined to my ear, when you imagined a certain friend of ours in love with the lady.. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 8. | But, probably from the mental fatigue he was beginning to feel, he made a blunder in speaking of the trial, and this blunder he recalled several times with vexation. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 9. | He made several efforts to creep out of his scrape, but the old man's eye was upon him and he made blunder after blunder. - from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| 10. | You have made two blunders in as many minutes. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 11. | 'Yes, I hear him trying to spell and read to himself, and pretty blunders he make. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 12. | "Will repair the blunders of his agent--is that it. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 13. | The task was done, not free from further blunders but the pupil claimed a reward, and received at least five kisses which, however, he generously returned. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 14. | Bloom, raising a policeman's whitegloved hand, blunders stifflegged out of the track. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 15. | Compliments, charades, and horrible blunders and it was not to be supposed that poor Harriet should not be recollecting too but she behaved very well, and was only rather pale and silent. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 16. | "That our ruler should have attacked the disabled fleet as it was returning to Helium was but another of his awful blunders which I fear will sooner or later compel Zodanga to elevate a wiser man to his place.. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 17. | For the world would not she have seemed to threaten me.--Imagine the shock imagine how, till I had actually detected my own blunder, I raved at the blunders of the post.--What was to be done--One thing only.--I must speak to my uncle. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 18. | Though ye prowl aye, ye shall it never find Ye be as bold as is Bayard the blind, That blunders forth, and peril casteth non. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |