tombé Englisch:

He tumbled down the stairs.

I gleefully tumbled down Burnaby mountain - an appropriate place (I thought) for an institute of higher learning - with a degree in French Literature under one arm and a pocketful of dreams under the other.

I tumbled on the truth by the merest accident, when I'd pretty nearly chucked the whole job.

The stock market tumbled.

The flood waters tumbled my house into the river.

He tumbled on a steep slope while skiing.

He was tumbled out of the car.

Alas, what ill luck has befallen me!

... terrible fate would have befallen us, or our rings,...