Tottering

Examples

• The house had stood on a tottering base for a dozen years; and at last, in the shock of the French Revolution, it had rushed down a total ruin. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She was gone out of the Lock-house as soon as he gave her this permission, and her tottering steps were on the road again. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In that case her tottering faith would have become firm again. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Tottering with weakness, she came forward, and delivered her basket. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Two days later, D'Arnot was tottering about the amphitheater, Tarzan's strong arm about him to keep him from falling. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Thus tottering on the dizzy brink, we were happy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There was a little tottering bench of shabby old volumes outside the door, labelled Law Books, all at 9d. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• After a time she arose, and with feeble and tottering steps ascended the street. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I informed her that my reason was tottering on its throne, and only she, Miss Mills, could prevent its being deposed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• There was only Amelia to stand by and support with her gentle arms the tottering, heart-broken old man. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Counterstroke after counterstroke had failed, and Russia was now tottering towards a collapse. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She dragged her tottering limbs from the bed to visit her son once more, but her strength failed her, and she sank powerless on the ground. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It was very odd to see what old letters Charley's young hand had made, they so wrinkled, and shrivelled, and tottering, it so plump and round. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Tottering and shaking in all his giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The old absolutist system of government was fast breaking up, and ancient thrones were tottering. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• When a building seems clumsy and tottering to the eye, it is ugly and disagreeable; though we be fully assured of the solidity of the workmanship. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This having been administered at a neighbouring public-house, he conducted me, with tottering steps, to the Misses Spenlow's door. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• And on this tottering foundation you build up your comfortable moral maxim that Crime causes its own detection! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Fanny stood up tottering--made a step or two towards her mother, and fell forwards into her arms in a fainting fit. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Porter; but, believe me, sir, I am tottering on the verge of forgetfulness as to your exalted position in the world of science, and your gray hairs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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