I was reading on the crowded subway when a distraught-looking woman stumbled into me.
I remember one evening, while walking in the French Concession we stumbled upon a small, local bank.
I stumbled upon this curious blend of biology and fable during a wintry campus visit to Harvard's Farlow Reference Library and Herbarium a few years ago.
I happen to know these details because last week I stumbled upon exec Tweets, a collection of about 100 executives who like to express themselves in chunks of up to 140 characters on Twitter.
Additionally, he was stumbled by a stake.
He stumbled down the stairs like a madman.
Ever since the first human stumbled across the first herb that aided in healing, humans have been on a quest to cure disease, and heal wounds.
It was here that in May 2007 another reindeer herder stumbled on the corpse of a perfectly preserved female baby woolly mammoth - which he named Lyuba, after his wife.
When running, he stumbled me.
Eventually he pushed her off, and she stumbled towards the winepress.
On Friday, a woman taking a class at the Metropolitan Museum of Art stumbled into "the Actor," a work by Picasso dating to 1904 or 1905.
"On my second day in Burma," Dundon recounts, "I stumbled upon this ramshackle skate park, where a handful of local teenagers and twenty-something's were hanging out and practicing their tricks."
Fire, and a fraud into which he innocently stumbled in 1983, destroyed almost all he had saved for.
Such challenges were unthinkable half-a-century ago when prospectors looking for uranium stumbled instead on a rich deposit of rare earths about an hour's drive from Las Vegas.
Ann caught her foot on a tree root and stumbled.
The reporters from Xinjiang who stumbled on the factory last week described a place where men in tattered clothing ground rocks by hand to produce sand and talcum powder.
Recently I stumbled across a little old Orthodox synagogue in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, no wider than the brownstone I grew up in.
The people stumbled through the streets like the survivors of an earthquake, with glazed expressions and awkward gait.
Her office has stumbled upon items, such as a 17th-century silver altar ornament, that were sold to be melted down as scrap.
He stumbled over the root of a tree.
Asian markets stumbled overnight amid fears of a protracted recession.