Staggering

Examples

• You must be a staggering next, must you? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• These severe requirements were staggering, but Mr. Edison's courage did not falter. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Staggering as if struck by lightning, he lost his balance and tumbled over the parapet. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• To perform that staggering list of things that should be done you find--what? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The murderer staggering backward to the wall, and shutting out the sight with his hand, seized a heavy club and struck her down. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The music rises and whistles louder and louder; the mariners go across the stage staggering, as if the ship was in severe motion. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The indictment against mere routine in government is a staggering one. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• An elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out at a side door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• By the second and third centuries A.D. the overtaxed and overstrained imperial machine was already staggering towards its downfall. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Donne, staggering three paces in retreat, sent little Sweeting into the arms of old Helstone, who brought up the rear. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The oxen driven to the water until they must swim; then harnessed to the boats, and, when they found their feet, staggering up the sand. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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