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When a recipe transforms winter vegetables into something bright and summery, you know you've stumbled upon something special.

He made his way to the door; he came back for his handkerchief, he stumbled out.

And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

When your correspondent stumbled across him on the campaign trail, voters behaved as if they were in the presence of a pop star.

It has rained for a week straight, the week in which you stumbled a refugee into my camp.

He had not gone many steps before he stumbled on the uneven ground and fell flat on his face.

I felt as if I had stumbled into a nightmare country, as you sometimes do in dreams.

And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosyty and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

The donkey walked on the bridge but stumbled and fell into the river. He got up and felt very happy. There was no salt in his bags.

I was lucky to have stumbled onto online poker when I was 18. It was one of my early wake up calls.

A weary hiker stumbled upon another hiker deep in the North Woods. "Am I ever glad to see you, " said the hiker.

He said that he and another man managed to escaped through a fire exit and stumbled through the smoke that filled the hotel.

Those farmers toiling at the well did not know it, but they had stumbled onto one of the world's most amazing archeological discoveries.

And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.

The manager stumbled through his opening speech as if he were afraid of making a mistake.

It took me a year to figure out which projection I wanted to live with for the rest of my life and I stumbled upon the Strebe projection.

Because this dragonfly has a rather amazing story to tell. And I feel very privileged to have stumbled across it living in the Maldives.

And much of what I stumbled into by folly wing my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

I continued to read about Hinduism and Buddhism when I stumbled upon a lesser known religion called Jainism .

"Joey, that's incredible what you do for her. I would never have guessed, well, ah, you know I. . . " I stumbled with the words.

She stumbled to one knee and cried out in pain, hoping against hope that her bear would gather her up and help her to her feet.

Then the master stumbled out of the door of the cottage and fell to his knees, weeping helplessly.

I stumbled across some of their senior leaders and began to form a relationship through our tweets.

He stumbled to the door and found a six-foot cockroach standing there.

This whole post was inspired by an amusing graph we stumbled across while trying to answer the question Do taller guys have more sex?

I was a little behind in my RSS articles but I stumbled upon a report about Halloween makeup to which the Beauty Brains had to weigh in.

Then he went on a little farther and stumbled against a piece of broken crockery ware, which certainly ought not to have been lying there.

indeed the account of how mathematicians stumbled , groped their way through obscurities should give heart to any tyro in research.

He often said he painted like a man out walking, unaware of his steps unless he stumbled.

Paiko stumbled, his feet unsteady and his hands raised in the air like the other men.

But then the bottom fell out of the housing market and Simmons, with its large debt, stumbled.

There was a smell Thomas recognized, as he stumbled down the hill under the weight of his friend.

I climbed on board , out of breath , red-faced , and stumbled over a woman's legs to the last unoccupied seat .

As a young man, after a Cambridge education, he stumbled into a career as a drifter, a collector of butterflies and author of strange books.

His hands flew to his chest and, dropping the flowers, he stumbled backward and sprawled on the pier.

Out of nowhere, Beck Weathers, who we had already been told was dead, stumbled into the tent, just like a mummy, he walked into the tent.

"No, no, no. . . " She stumbled backwards down the front steps, falling as her bare foot slipped on the slick dew-drenched grass.

Just as solidly, it hit the crossbar. Gyan stumbled away holding his head.

The crocodile monitoring program began in 1978, a year after employees stumbled upon a crocodile nest in the plant's cooling canal system.

The executive of the union of mineworkers stumbled into a ban on overtime working, with an inevitable effect on coal production.

The voice came inside his own head, and though it was very gentle, it startled him so much that he faltered and stumbled in the air.

As the smoke intensified, Wayne Dammert, a banquet captain at the club, stumbled into a hallway jammed with a hundred guests.

The strange facts are these. In 1996, workers clearing a sports field for a school in Qingzhou stumbled across the head of a Buddha.

Alush said he knows of five people from a neighbouring village who have lost limbs as they stumbled across war litter.

One of them , a boy , stumbled on the asphalt , fell down twice , and began to cry .

It was here in London that I stumbled across a local magic shop, where I discovered magic.

This tiny mite climbed onto a spider's back at least 44 million years ago, but the spider stumbled into a glob of sticky tree sap.

and feel a pang of pride that this place into which I have stumbled holds a host of history of which I have hardly scratched the surface.

Lehman, which has stumbled in efforts to raise capital, is another example of the game-changing nature of temporary measures.

After what seemed like an hour, I stumbled across a small artificial structure. It was hidden behind a large rocks.

Ponzi was convinced that he was a wizard who had stumbled upon a form of financial alchemy that had eluded others.

" My God, a gun ! " The boyfriend lifted his hands. He stumbled backward and his bar stool fell over .

In this instance the surgeons were lucky to have stumbled upon the right expert, but this is not always the case.

Employment stumbled in May and manufacturing braked sharply, while a pick-up in core inflation gathered speed.

But fan Simon Grabiner, 19, said she came on stage and 'stumbled around' as if she was drunk or under the influence of drugs.

One man, trying in his terror to escape the awful sight, stumbled against the coffin so heavily as to knock away one of its frail supports.

Wandering away from the main wreckage site, they stumbled upon two large pieces of the ship's bottom on the ocean floor.

Recently The Economist recognized this , but I stumbled upon the idea 12 years ago, and that's what I 've been working on .

And much of rushing I stumbled into by following my curiosity into intuition turned out to be priceless lots on.

They stumbled into a convenience store where Stuart found himself face to face with a young and attractive clerk.

I must have done it pretty powerfully because he stumbled and then I slammed the door shut and locked it.

I recently stumbled on a website with a large set of baby names classified as either "legitimate" or "illegitimate. " "Legitimate"

"Drat! " said Mole, as he stumbled and he diamond shot uo our of his paws.

A few weeks later, though, I stumbled across the code for pop client by Carl Harris, and found I had a problem.

Attempts to negotiate the town's surrender have stumbled, and rebel forces are now close to its perimeter.

when he stumbled across the old man in his stone cabin.

But they too have often stumbled abroad: for instance, Wal-Mart had to give up in Germany.

He stumbled suddenly and fell, rolling off the road into a melting patch of snow.

Marie was nearly paralyzed with fear as she stumbled down the road toward them and waved her arms wildly.

When asked about his discovery at the time Dr Bhathal admitted he had been really excited about what he had possibly stumbled across.

In her hurry she stumbled and spilled the milk all over the floor.

He was reaching for her hand when she suddenly stumbled and collapsed into his arms.

As he stumbled backwards, she spun the spear around and drove its point through his belly with a grunt.

On each occasion , however, it has stumbled at the cost of separating the unit as a distinct entity .

but I stumbled on him and Huck right at my door, and so I just brought them along in a hurry.

M. , drunk and delirious. Broke some furniture, puked in the hallway, and gave yourself a black eye when you stumbled into the door.

He would have won the race, but he stumbled and nearly fell just before he reached the finish line.

After that he decided that he'd had enough and stumbled back up on deck to clear his head of rum and elephants alike.

She turned around and started running back up the hill she'd just stumbled down. Up one hill, down the next.

As the sun was gilding the distant spires of Dragonstone, Dany stumbled onto a low stone wall, overgrown and broken.

Back in the city that had been so conducive to wishing I was someplace else in, I stumbled into a job at a local folklore center.

While doing calculation for the project, the designers stumbled upon a new solution to a geological problem.

I reeled, noticing as I stumbled that the four of them had formed a sort of circle around me.

When his heat began, another runner committed a false start, and Liu stumbled for a few strides but was clearly hindered.

In lead though she had been , she stumbled near the terminus and her leg was injured .

It was at that point they realised they might have stumbled upon an animal model of SIDS.

It would certainly never have occurred to me to depart from Freud's path had I not stumbled upon facts.

If you've stumbled on any other ways to bypass the New York Times' limits on free access, please share in the comments.

The people stumbled through the streets like the survivors of an earthquake, with glazed expressions and awkward gait.

However, the purchases fell sharply as global equities stumbled into a bear market and bank-to-bank lending totally froze.

stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

Its growth began to slow in 2007, well before exports stumbled, driven by a collapse in the property market and construction.

I've stumbled upon a frightened man held captive by an evil Sorcerer.

As the Cold War stumbled to a close, the belief that governments could micromanage national economies and generate prosperity seemed dead.

I stumbled out with my wife, in tears, and drove back to Llanspyddid, where I live.

He stumbled blindly on through the dark building .

He stumbled across the answer after years of research.

Someone pushed me from behind, and I stumbled down the capitol stairs onto the heads of the crowd.

He was digging in the garden and stumbled upon a gold coin.

As the coach stumbled along in the darkness, there arose before him the vision of an emaciated figure with hair prematurely white.

You'll feel like no one else has stumbled upon it since the French poet Arthur Rimbaud lived here as a coffee trader in the 1880s.

The child stumbled over [ at] the long word.

The damaged machine stumbled off to do his bidding, while Juno and his master followed at a more sedate pace.

A while later I stumbled upon a wonderful book in the public library.

Beth stumbled in the front door, her ridiculous shoes, her enormous bag.

A researcher shadowed him in case he stumbled.

But in the case of Crohn's, researchers stumbled across the connection by accident.

She stumbled up to the bathroom and tried to get under the shower, but he stopped her.

Your problem is not just that you stumbled on your mother embracing the headteacher.

Hugh Jackman stumbled upon acting in a required college course. He quickly fell in love with it.

He chugged the rest of his beer and stumbled over to the two girls.

When he came back that time, he did not walk but rather stumbled into our cell, quite pale and deeply shaken.

But when you think about it, maybe we stumbled into an even better tradition.

Fire, and a fraud into which he innocently stumbled in 1983, destroyed almost all he had saved for.

Or makes you feel like an utter failure just because you just stumbled and things didn't work out this time.

Branches slapped me in the face, and I stumbled and fell into the muck.

Two other miners stumbled to the surface hours after the blast.

After shouting at him and pulling him out he stumbled off.

Enterprise looks a lot of resources, talents, but the whole organization but as an old age and old man stumbled along.

The most important part of what he had to say was stumbled over, which made us neither cry nor laugh.

As they were going along with the coffin on their shoulders, the servants stumbled over a root.

She rose from the bed on shaky legs, and stumbled over to the door.

I stumbled along, but fortunately did not give up goals.

Mr. Li stumbled here, because he was too hurried. We didn't dare to hold him up, for fear of getting a bad rap or worsening his condition.

"Oh, oh, in that case. . . " whereupon the drunk threw the money back and stumbled away.

But when I stumbled into the startup world two decades later, the dots began to connect.

Interesting. Sex works even better than chocolate to modify behavior. I wonder if anyone else has stumbled onto this?

He first stumbled into it in 1969, thanks to a chance encounter at a hotel in Palm Springs.

I stumbled over a book in the walkway and had to catch myself on the edge of a table.

Her sisters tripped over her legs when they stumbled out of the bathroom.

The branches caught in my hair and I stumbled on the uneven ground but I kept on going.

On my very first day there I stumbled into a meeting of Devadasi prostitutes.

He stumbled, fell onto the ground and needed quite a while to pick himself up.

News that last Friday, as he was waiting for Kylie Minogue outside the London Hotel in New York, he stumbled instead upon Bieber.

Wombat stumbled into a hole "Stop, your going to fast. I need to rest" he complained.

She never abated the piercing quality of her shrieks, never stumbled in the distinctness or the order of her words.

Some speculated he was shot by an infantryman who had stumbled upon him during mop-up operations.

The Prince now slipped among the wet grass, now stumbled over bare rocks which projected from the stony ground.

When I stumbled upon these two simple and highly useful online tools, I realized that I had in no way ever thought of the concept.

However, I stumbled on an old letter the other day that confirmed my admission into nursery aged four, 29 years ago!

So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter.

A boy staggered out of the bus, stumbled, and collapsed on the snowbank at the curb.

She was half sorry her sagacity had miscarried, and half glad that Tom had stumbled into obedient conduct for once.

Wherever he went, the dusty young traveller stumbled on scenes like this.

The fact that some of India's biggest firms stumbled when they ventured overseas has prompted some caution.

It was love at first sight for a baby chipmunk who stumbled upon a teddy bear during a garden outing.

Suddenly his legs are stumbled by a reinforcing steel bar, his pants torned and shattered, sending tatters flying into the air.

Apple is expected to next attack the business of watching television, an area where it has stumbled.

Here, we point out some out some of the most interesting and thought-provoking articles and videos we have stumbled across of late.

Elizabeth arose and stumbled over to the window and looked out into the night.

The flaw, which Kaminsky stumbled across in February, had been overlooked for almost two decades.

S. I stumbled upon an elderly couple speaking Mandarin in a park near my wife's family home in the small town of Bay City, Michigan.

In the early stages fish roll occurred or swimming in the water body stumbled forward the condition in severe abdominal sink bottom up.

I circled to my right and stumbled into a snow-filled creek bed.

I stumbled past the boxes of polished wood and velvet, feeling like I had fallen through a trap door into an Edgar Allen Poe story.

He stumbled to the door of the nearest hut and knocked.

When the front runner to home run, Sean stumbled on the run to third.

When he tried to rise one leg went out from under him and he stumbled back onto his knees.

The original operator deliberately stumbled over the authorization number.

A news report says authorities responding to a burglar alarm in New Zealand thought they stumbled onto an illegal drug lab.

"You idiot! " I screamed and shoved him as hard as I could. He stumbled and fell backwards.

They had stumbled upon one of the themes of the class: make things simple, and perfect them later.

The child stumbled through a piece by Chopin.

Around the same time, the JP Morgan team stumbled on a second, potentially bigger problem.

A few years ago I stumbled upon a mention of the article in another newspaper, The New Era, of Humeston, Iowa, on Dec.

I stumbled behind her, ducking the trees and brush that rustled with her passing.

Or did you create a clique of your own, foreshadowing the members-only world into which you've stumbled? What about life after school?

Overseas markets stumbled after Chinese trade figures showed a steep slowdown in the growth rate of the country's imports.

Around the same time, Kamprad stumbled on the idea of flat packing furniture when a coworker took the legs off a table for easier transport.

We stumbled across the entrance to an underground passage, half covered by bushes.

While I am pleased, when a moment's inattention and feet are a thing stumbled a bit, down a big somersault.

Second, that even if America stumbled, the rest of the world economy was "decoupled" and would carry on growing healthily.

If there were a simple, risk-free way to dispel the gathering Iranian nuclear crisis, the six would surely have stumbled on it by now.

Groupon has stumbled since filing to go public this past June, using accounting methods some found overambitious.

From a gaming point of view, he may have stumbled upon a badly needed new source of revenue.

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.

My words stumbled out something like that in my attempt to answer her confused questioning.

Unlike computer criminals today, Mitnick ignored the credit card numbers he stumbled across in his pursuit of code.

It was a freezing day, a few years ago, when I stumbled on a wallet in the street.

Near the edge of the roof, he stumbled on construction materials, lost his footing and fell.

When a new obstacle or growing pain arose, we stumbled and a fell down.

The young man stumbled over the root of a tree.

He has stumbled on a truth that most people who run call centres, including his own employers, have forgotten.

When he lifted his left foot to enter, his right knee was stumbled against the rail of well.

I stumbled across Scala and instantly realized it was what I was looking for.

Yet, BYD stumbled during 2010 in its first major breakdown since it was established as a cellphone battery company in the mid-1990s.

With the Kyoto agreement ticking towards expiry, talks on a new treaty have stumbled on seemingly incompatible demands.

One day, they stumbled into a harem tent filled with over 100 beautiful women.

He waited for a long time until the nightclub was about to close before a man finally stumbled out.

Mount repeated many times to play after a long lunch break in a dull, the Youlan stumbled upon her husband's phone has a recording.

Mr. Smith's job obviously couldn't meet his intimacy needs, so in a moment of temptation he unwisely stumbled into an affair.

Or have we stumbled onto a deep congruence between the structure of our minds and the structure of the universe?

The Federal Reserve has not actually stumbled into either a Keynesian or Krugman-type liquidity trap.

Finally, I stumbled upon a brilliant, but underused technique: Tell them about it!

VOC is run by a small hedge fund management firm based in New York that stumbled on China almost by accident.

once I stumbled and fell on him, but I got him home.

The researchers may also have stumbled on an unexpected side benefit.

As communism stumbled to an end, he and his two friends started a small company tiling bathrooms.

Then, browsing online one night, I'd stumbled across the idea of renting a public-use cabin.

LuShunJin and aunt of the day stumbled lottery taken the wrong, the plant in the award of the original as a maid of the lottery.

Some other members of our group stumbled on a room devoted to teaching about American war crimes.

He was half glad. He turned up the hill, and stumbled blindly over the wild slopes.

What's also true, however, is that China has stumbled into a monetary muddle that's getting worse with each passing month.

PS It may be that Westerners have stumbled upon something in China which has long been lacking in the West: the right to happiness.

She has stumbled along in a sometimes painful but always loving journey, populated by many dear people, and across diverse cultural terrain.

One man warned me that if we stumbled across an active drugs-processing plant, we'd be killed on sight.

St. John, we would have stumbled upon her corpse in the morning.

While driving on the highway, I stumbled upon a billboard that read, "Be happy now" .

You and your fantasy danced and laughed and never stumbled.

In the process, I stumbled upon a new "business model" for raising money for charity: Donation by Action.

The American administration stumbled this month when it cancelled a planned missile-defence base in Poland on September 17th.

Because some of the biggest discoveries about our universe were stumbled on.

What Alaska stumbled onto was a fundamental shift in the way consumers react to advertising messages.

Managed health care group stumbled 11% on Coventry Health Care (-26%) as it slashed earnings outlook well below expectations.

I knew such an interface should exist -- and even stumbled across it myself after this post.

As we drew closer to the mouth of the river, we stumbled across the first roads we'd seen in months.

She visits bars, country clubs, people's homes and Scotland for whiskey tastings . "I stumbled on my passion in life, " she says.

In a second-hand bookstore in Berlin she stumbled across the German phrase, which the shop owner translated as "poison" in English.

Mr Bai has stumbled on how the internet has transformed grassroots politics.

Then at Fort Delaware, near the end of the line of prisoners a tall man stepped out and stumbled into Bettie's arms.

But when somebody stumbled on a narrow and overcrowded bridge, it started a stampede and people were crushed to death.

They stumbled across a cure for tuberculosis while they were doing research on something else.

Somehow I stumbled across personal development sites and started digesting lots of information rapidly.

"We, um, it's not so much on the course development, " he stumbled.

unconsciously, she had stumbled on a buried memory.

All this fecundity would have stopped me dead in my tracks had I stumbled upon it in the park.

we stumbled over the frozen corpse of a comrade.

If I remember right, he stumbled over a heap of stones, looked up at the stars, and so on.

Just minutes after the crash, bloody passengers stumbled away from the burning wreckage, looking for help.

In 2010 I stumbled across the concepts minimalism and simplicity and unstoppable passion.

As Pearl explored the backyard, she stumbled upon tiny limbs and mutilated hands, the remains of infant daughters left to die.

There, they went walking through the jungle and stumbled across a small poisonous snake.

As they stumbled out of the game.

While struggling to make a living, I stumbled upon some inspiring information.

The coin stumbled over a knuckle and slipped silently into the dealer's lap.

Moreover, the pride of Israel testifies against him, And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; Judah also has stumbled with them.

"It's cold, " Jeyne Poole whimpered as she stumbled along at Theon's side.

A boy of five or six, with an attractive, intelligent face stumbled in the aisle.

So it seems that plants and animals have both stumbled on the same aerodynamic approach to battling gravity.

She had stumbled across a makeshift torture chamber.

Strange indeed! You stumbled instinctively on an ancient method that is unsurpassed in its efficacy. So why not share?

while thus unmindful of his steps he stumbled- G. B. Shaw.

Yet Goldman Sachs, often described as a giant hedge fund, prospered, while the supposedly conservative Swiss bank UBS stumbled.

Uzbekistani guards hesitated as hysterical women sobbed and stumbled towards them.

The oaf stumbled over the bucket , spilling all the water .

She stumbled over to the time machine and broke her hands free.

Stumbled by a soluble marble saddle, I saw a bundle of rifles with the struggling of a triangle eagle, which was raged by some rifles.

Harry grabbed Hermione's hand as they staggered and stumbled over stone and wood.

Whist taking a short walk on the deck, the stubborn and somewhat stout man stumbled across a packet of strawberries and mushroom stools.

When the polls bounced she called an early election. But as the campaign's second week closed she stumbled.