How To Use Totter In A Sentence
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Gregara, I never could abye the reek of them since I could stotter on two feet.
David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And Fran
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A swarm of princesses totter on stage, got up like topiary on legs in every shade of scarlet, crimson, cerise, cochineal, each foolishly imagining Prince Charming must choose her as his red queen.
Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
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Old dandies with creaking joints tottered along Piccadilly to their certain doom; young clerks in the city, explaining that they wished to attend their aunt's funeral, crowded the omnibuses for Kensington and were seen no more; while my mother tells me that excursion trains from the country were arriving at the principal stations throughout the day, bearing huge loads of provincial inamorati.
The War of the Wenuses
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The building exploits the drama of this interlocked matrix of mass and light as stepped ramps zigzag through the atrium, revealing the sheer concrete wall and the great tottering stack of galleries.
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Bewildered by the suddenness of this blow, I could but watch in helpless silence the advancing throng, with my poor friends in their midst, their hands bound, their tottering footsteps directed by rude shoves towards the pipul tree, the accustomed assembly place of the villagers and the village council.
Tales of Destiny
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Its various schools, once strongly entrenched at numerous clan capitals throughout the country, were now tottering on the brink of ruin.
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I'm gonna buy me a little red dress and some tottery shoes.
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But before ten days were gone even the woman Ipsukuk exhausted her provisions, and went home weak and tottery.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW
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In fact, as the team tottered into town late on Wednesday afternoon, its members didn't look at all like the healthy young athletes who had left Mountain Village on Sunday.
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I have seen an etheromaniac at forty-one a wizened, bent, decrepit, and tottering old man.
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Frasers, a'body kens that; and as for the Gregara, I never could abye the reek of them since I could stotter on two feet.
Catriona
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So Sri Lanka and a flat deck were a pretty helpful combination and they began to make the first tottering steps.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the figure of the woman was still more awkward: an unwieldy bulk, two extended arms which seemed to bear it up with difficulty, and looked like two carved handles from the neck to the widest part of a large kilderkin, and beneath this enormous body, two legs, naked up to the knees, which could scarcely totter along.
Chapter XI
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For a few pesos more, you can get yourself into a 'cama' seat, which is much like something from an old-fashioned aircraft business class complete with food and a stewardess tottering about serving sparkling wine.
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With enough blood collected a young warrior caked the wound with fresh dung and the animal was released to totter away on unsteady legs but otherwise unharmed.
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Making sure no one saw her in such a weakened state, she tottered slowly toward her room.
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Between his babble and having to totter into the bushes every half-mile while the troop tactfully looked the other way, I was in poor trim by the time we reached Nuggur Ford, where they slung me a hammock in a makeshift hospital basha, and a native medical orderly filled me with jalap.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
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Look with what a blushless face of triumph she eyes her poor tottering neighbour opposite, who never appears destined "to suffer a recovery.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829
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On this basis alone, men fear a woman tottering towards them at the beginning of an evening, already gimlet-eyed with toe pain, and sitting down to eat with old-lady sigh.
The Saturday interview: Caitlin Moran
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The priest realized the crucial moment, felt his power tottering, opened his mouth in denunciation, but fled backward before the truculent advance, upraised fist, and flashing eyes, of Mackenzie.
The Sun of the Wolf
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The next song is a request from/for Roz in Totteridge.
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The tea-towel-wearing shepherd totters on stage, blurts his lines and joins an angelic chorus in singing Little Donkey.
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I tottered and spun from the exhaustion; my breasts bled from his painful nips: still I perservered, determined to preserve this, his babyness, his need for me.
Needful Things | Her Bad Mother
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With her lowered head and stooped shoulders, she totters across the stage.
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She loves dressing up in my clothes, tottering around in my heels and playing around with my make-up.
The Sun
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The distinction between residents and spectators was obvious, we were the ones tottering around the old railroad wearing indecent heels.
The Sun
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More simply put is what I call the teeter-totter principle.
The Examiner Home RSS
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Usually bedecked in a powder-blue suit, she totters down the steps of one ancient pile with the purpose of opening another crumbling edifice a short limousine drive away.
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Days of oppressive weariness and languor, whose realities have the feeble sickliness of dreams; nights, whose dreams are fierce realities of agony; sinking health, tottering frames, incipient madness, and worse, the consciousness of incipient madness; this is the price of their whistle.
Mary Barton
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After the elegies and hymns and poems, the retired minister rose to speak on tottering legs but with a voice like a vice.
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It could all leave the troubled Ice Hockey Superleague tottering on the brink with just five teams left.
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Seen tottering around campus in chic suits and a fabulous array of heels.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two days I lay there, too sick to move, and on the third, reeling and giddy, supporting myself on an extemporized crutch, I tottered on toward San Francisco.
THE DREAM OF DEBS
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The building was tottering on the brink of falling in on itself.
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While it is the sheer physicality of Mr. Hurt's performance that impresses most—he totters about the stage with the squeaky-shoed grace of the music-hall clowns that Beckett loved—you will be no less stunned by the sound of his creaky, rusty voice, which suggests a hermit who never has occasion to speak a word aloud for months at a time.
The End Of the Line
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The outfit was completed with a pair of tottering heels and a battered carrier bag she swung from her wrist.
Times, Sunday Times
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The industry has tottered from crisis to crisis now for two years.
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So Sri Lanka and a flat deck were a pretty helpful combination and they began to make the first tottering steps.
Times, Sunday Times
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a tottery old man
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What on earth was the woman tottering in front of me wearing?
Times, Sunday Times
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What on earth was the woman tottering in front of me wearing?
Times, Sunday Times
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He tottered to the fridge, got a beer and slumped at the table.
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25 years ago Coney Street in York was a totter's paradise on Tuesday morning, refuse collection day.
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The outfit was completed with a pair of tottering heels and a battered carrier bag she swung from her wrist.
Times, Sunday Times
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But forget tottering about in wedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite all its natural resources and the natural resilience of its many peoples, Africa is a continent that totters on the edge of disaster as war, famine, disease, greed and corruption threaten to overwhelm it.
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Waiting in line, the most original force in modern hip-hop vanishes into his surroundings as his girlfriend totters at his side. Nobody seems to recognise him.
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However, the car totters a bit when cornering and takes quite a few turns to lock.
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Peter knew many weren't happy with the decision, and he watched with apprehension as one of the most elderly men in the village tottered up to the platform to speak.
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Tottering around with a martini glass, Charlotte Akin is delightfully blowsy as the widowed Queen Margaret -- a woman who relishes her bitterness.
Washington Shakespeare Company's haunted 'Richard III' isn't haunting enough
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Granny pulled herself to her feet and tottered over to the bench, where Hodgesaargh had left his jar of flame.
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My diligent inspection of every single isolated bay, every last tottering Spanish tower had been observed by both the customs posts and the hashish smuggling gangs with wry detachment.
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Eventually, the next bend reveals a stand of huts, tottering on stilts sunk in the muddy wastes of the lapping river.
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It's experimental, original and always tottering on the brink of disaster.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then, tottering down to the parlour, with a voice hollow from affright, and a face pale as death, she tremulously articulated, 'where is my sister?'
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Mr. Montille still totters around the village but he turned over the reins to his son Étienne more than a decade ago and the latter has made these wines much more accessible without, so far as I can tell, resorting to any technological harlotry.
The Childhood Chums Keeping Volnay a Delight
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Those rugs can be a serious pain in the rear when you're tottering around in high heels.
The Sun
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Or, say the liberals, we waste our money on video games and trashy novels while the fine arts totter on the brink of extinction.
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Just the sort of information you need when sorting through a tottering pile of CDs.
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Though souls may rush together, if body cannot endure body, happiness is reared on sand and the structure will be ever unstable and tottery.
CHAPTER 8
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The drunkard tottered along the road.
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But forget tottering about in wedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those rugs can be a serious pain in the rear when you're tottering around in high heels.
The Sun
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THE average British woman takes a shoe size six but in 100 years women could be tottering around in size tens.
The Sun
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It's experimental, original and always tottering on the brink of disaster.
Times, Sunday Times
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What on earth was the woman tottering in front of me wearing?
Times, Sunday Times
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With a heavy thud she slammed into the hat rack, which teetered and tottered before tipping toward her.
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Empires may totter, armies may battle, politicians may plot, but it is family relations which provide the most dramatic material.
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A kindly, gray-whiskered old gentleman came tottering and rocking into view, his rosy, wrinkled face beaming benediction on the world as he passed through it -- on the sunshine dappling the undergrowth, on the furry squirrels sitting up on their hind legs to watch him pass, on the stray dickybird that hopped fearlessly in his path, at the young man sitting very rigid there on his bench, at the fair, sweet-faced girl who met his aged eyes with the gentlest of involuntary smiles.
The Tracer of Lost Persons
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So we've set up the rather tottery edifice that is normal under the legal system in England and Wales and, for the next eight to twelve weeks or so, we'll live inside it, propping it up and patching it as necessary.
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If we aren't careful and prudent it could be that the club finds itself in the horrible predicament it found itself last season, when the club tottered on the brink of extinction.
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Moniplies (also for sense of 'behoved'): 'Ae auld hirplin deevil of a potter behoved just to step in my way, and offer me a pig (earthern pot -- etym. dub.), as he said "just to put my Scotch ointment in;" and I gave him a push, as but natural, and the tottering deevil coupit owre amang his own pigs, and damaged a score of them.'
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
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In the heels I was tottering about me kitchen making a cup of tea and flicking my hair about.
Times, Sunday Times
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The child tottered across the room.
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Though he felt light-headed from the morning and afternoon group-meditation sessions and the trancing suck of the desert sun, he pushed himself up and tottered back to the yurt on legs that might as well have been deboned for all the stability they offered him, this perfect gift of the dragonfly inside him and no way to get it out.
The Silence
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THE average British woman takes a shoe size six but in 100 years women could be tottering around in size tens.
The Sun
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The distinction between residents and spectators was obvious, we were the ones tottering around the old railroad wearing indecent heels.
The Sun
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The drunk man tottered over to our table
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Hindu rule was already tottering before Muslim penetration.
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There was also a tottering confection called the ‘chocolate pistachio pinnacle,’ which seemed dry and a little structurally unsound to me.
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Any aspiring writer should be taken to the book depository and shown the tottering stacks that will remain unread and unreviewed, and likely tossed onto the FREE table at the paper.
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Spectators trained digital cameras and cellphone cameras on the structure and waited as huge cracks appeared and the building tottered.
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At a market, tottery old men and women were searching in the garbage thrown in the mud for rotten potatoes, beans, and vegetables, while little children clustered like flies around a festering mass of fruit, thrusting their arms to the shoulders into the liquid corruption, and drawing forth morsels but partially decayed, which they devoured on the spot.
THE DESCENT
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Israel tottered after her, leaving his predigested food untouched on his plate and his imitation coffee steaming malodorously in his cup.
At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern
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After a while the passenger door opened, and an elderly lady tottered out.
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You get higher leverage with the cable attached closer to the to the pivot, as you would expect when moving the person you are trying to lift toward the fulcrum of a teeter totter.
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Seventy-nine-year-old Marie totters in, held up by two of the crew.
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She managed to totter back to her seat.
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Sometimes they totter and gesticulate joltingly at ground level, like dolls brought to life.
Creative Cirko De Mente evokes . . . well, it's hard to say
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Mush-on! you Siwashes! he cried, attempting, in a vermicular way, to kick at them, and discovering himself to be tottering on the edge of a declivity.
THE MAN WITH THE GASH
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His loyalty to the British Government at a time when the National movement was raging and his efforts to shore up a tottering feudal institution were not pure personal predilections or momentary aberrations.
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An intimate tangle of dog-leg lanes led me on, to find the Priuli Fountain squeezed between a modern block of flats and a tottery old house with an overhanging Turkish upper storey.
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The cart still tottered as it bumped along the Mourning Valley.
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If I take up space here writing all the other theories that were once, supposedly, absolute and the foundation of all knowledge and which are now tottering if not in shambles, I'll say nothing else.
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He is back at work, tottering around on crutches.
The Sun
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So I'll play safe and stick to a simple list: brown bent, totter, sheep's fescue, crested dog's tail, cock's foot, sweet vernal, soft brome – poetic names of common hay meadow grasses that reflect a bygone era of agriculture.
Make hay meadow photos while the sun shines | Phil Gates
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And just to see everyone's reactions from early this afternoon when everyone had an emotion where they didn't - they were kind of teeter tottering.
CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2006
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Sae ae auld hirpling deevil of a potter behoved just to step in my way and offer me a pig, as he said, just to put my Scotch ointment in, and I gave him a push, as but natural, and the tottering deevil coupit ower amang his ain pigs, and damaged a score of them.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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He is back at work, tottering around on crutches.
The Sun
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He chuckled at a perky, muff-like dog tottering along as if to remind the Swedes a British dog is what a dog is - unexpendable, functionless, highly ridiculous.
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There was a farmer who rang in with a heifer that was very tottery on its feet and salivating.
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Martin guided her tottering footsteps to a chair, from where she watched him with bulging eyes.
Chapter 34
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Those rugs can be a serious pain in the rear when you're tottering around in high heels.
The Sun
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Only four years before, St. Augustine's City of God had laid the theological groundwork for the church to step into the void left by the collapsing Roman Empire Ever since, Western civilization and the Christian enterprise have been joined together for better or worse; the church has moved and countermoved, advanced backtracked, tottered and triumphed before the contingencies of history.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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It almost defies belief that no credible new leader has emerged to take advantage of the tottering pharaoh.
Times, Sunday Times
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The financial success was achieved, however, on the back of a tottering pyramid of contract labour, often unskilled.
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The fragile banking industry is tottering, and the enormous level of foreign investment China has enjoyed over the past decade is under threat.
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Moving faster than she had thought he could, he tottered out of the room, and seconds later, another set of doors burst open and boys began flooding in.
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It was sufficiently bizarre to see men and women in their late sixties and seventies tottering around the decks wearing eye patches, death's head do-rags, and plastic hooks while muttering, ‘Avast, matey!’
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The pull of these cities have been such that all of them are gradually becoming very densely populated, tottering almost on the brink of a demographic disaster.
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Like a Wrist under the wheelwright of a tottering cartel!
The Sea at Sea (or Why is There a Question Instead of Not a Question)
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It's experimental, original and always tottering on the brink of disaster.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the eve of his fateful appointment as chancellor, his party was tottering on the brink of disintegration.
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One by one, the aged tottered in, each one seemingly more decrepit than the one before.
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The wounded soldier tottered to his feet.
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On my final night I tottered back after two shows barely able to put one knee in front of the other.
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It's a piece that totters constantly on the brink of self-parody, but Webley attacks it with such savage gusto that it ends up being an album stand-out.
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The tea-towel-wearing shepherd totters on stage, blurts his lines and joins an angelic chorus in singing Little Donkey.
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The muckle black deil was father to the Frasers, a'body kens that; and as for the Gregara, I never could abye the reek of them since I could stotter on two feet.
David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
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I tottered about the streets, grinning bitterly at perfectly respectable people.
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Seen tottering around campus in chic suits and a fabulous array of heels.
Times, Sunday Times
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A moonship on the south side swayed, tottered, and fell with infinite slowness, struck at last and made the ground ring with her metal anguish.
Three Worlds To Conquer
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Wonky - Descriptive of an object tottering parlously in place.
The Talk In London - A New Yorker's Report from the Field
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The plaintiff lived in Totteridge and was evaluated for the poor rates by the assessors for Hatfield.
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I found him first, a little withered, dried-up old fellow, wrinkled-faced and bleary-eyed and tottery.
CHAPTER XII
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The pile of books tottered then fell.
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But before ten days were gone, even the woman Ipsukuk exhausted her provisions, and went home weak and tottery.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW
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Haig, bald and fuming as if steam is about to issue not only from his ears but also from his fingertips, always stands at a 60-degree angle -- or darts here and there at the same tottering slant.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Yes, Prime Minister Prime Stage Comedy Meat
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She shoos me out of her nice clean treatment room and I totter off feeling not exactly relaxed.
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They wear a coat sometimes, but it is a marvel of a coat, and was in the last stages of tottering old age before it fell to the blousard.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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Is that tottering mass of concrete really a clothes shop?
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It is the usual "gros bourg" of Alsace, with comfortable old houses in espaliered gardens: dull, well-to-do, contented; not in the least the kind of setting demanded by the patriotism which has to be fed on pictures of little girls singing the Marseillaise in Alsatian head-dresses and old men with operatic waistcoats tottering forward to kiss the flag.
Fighting France
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A very old woman, bent in half and tottering on crippled legs, slowly and painfully pushed her own empty wheelchair.
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She loves dressing up in my clothes, tottering around in my heels and playing around with my make-up.
The Sun
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I tottered down the aisle sideways, crablike, trying not to bump the bags against the seats.
Crossed
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Women's Bodies, shows what she calls grotesque, vulgar and humiliating creatures, with inflated silicone bodies, oozing out of plunging necklines, tottering on stiletto heels.
NPR Topics: News
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Her heart slowed, and she tottered dizzily, the gun sagging in her hand as the witches cast a spell over the room.
Crimson Wind
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They think the towering shoes she was tottering around in look like golf clubs and would be totally impractical.
The Sun
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I tottered home happily yesterday with nine books and will return for a second lot soon.
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To take bronze in such a favourable scenario is like tottering at the bottom in any serious competition
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In the heels I was tottering about me kitchen making a cup of tea and flicking my hair about.
Times, Sunday Times
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Levine, 67, who has been plagued with health woes for the last few years and looked physically tottery at the curtain call, has resumed active duty this fall both at the Met and at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where he is music director.
Going for the Rheingold
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A cormorant flew low over the water, long neck held in a serpentine curve; sandpipers and turnstones tottered among the rocks.
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Passing one very bad spot several yards in length, the heart of one of the party somewhat failed him, so he bestrided the shoulders of a mountaineer; but, when half way, he found himself overhanging a precipice of several hundred feet, with a path of a few inches wide, and the hill man tottering beneath him.
Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
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He disappeared between two tottering wooden buildings and was enclosed by lines of faded laundry.
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It waddled towards the pool, looking less like a predator than like an elderly sumo wrestler tottering uncertainly towards a bout with a reigning champion.
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Christ Jesus is the way of life, and he is a plain way, a pleasant way, a way suitable for the tottering feet and feeble knees of trembling sinners: am I found in this way, or am I hunting after another track such as priestcraft or metaphysics may promise me?
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Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma.
The Haunted Bookshop
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It is this rebirth and destruction that keeps the balance and saves the universe from tottering over the brink of destruction.
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Inside is a room with just four tables, a couple of huge stacks of tottering CDs that threaten to poleaxe the barman, and shelves lined with wine bottles, each one with the price scribbled on the glass in silver magic marker.
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'Poor lamb, poor little lamb,' says Aunt Abby, standin 'over her, all kind of tottery, and tryin' to bathe her head with camphor.
The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural
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Mr Lackersteen tottered after her, with a strange ataxic step caused partly by earth-tremors and partly by gin.
Burmese Days
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The Grand National festival wants to rid itself of the image of sozzled racegoers flashing the flesh and tottering around in high heels.
The Sun
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We took a short provisioning trip this morning and, judging by the number of tired, ashen faces to be seen atop slightly tottery bodies, I'm not alone in my struggle to get back to normal.
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Yet it has familiar urban problems - overcrowding, pollution, rotting heritage, tottering transport, suburban sprawl.
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Any loss of euro confidence is an unwelcome blow to a global currency ‘system’ already tottering over its unsound dollar foundation.
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She shoos me out of her nice clean treatment room and I totter off feeling not exactly relaxed.
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She spent the duration of the song tottering around on stage in a pair of socks and a floral peach kimono clutching a tiny brolly, right.
The Sun
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I have seen legends totter across stages, forget their lines, prove themselves incapable of holding a tune.
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Her brown eyes were three times magnified and bobbed around behind the octagonal glass like dying goldfish, staring me down as she tottered down the aisle to the bathroom for the seventeenth time.
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‘The pressing concern of the moment is how to prevent Lebanon from tottering over the brink of the abyss,’ said the English-language Daily Star.
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It'll be a tottery situation for a while but we'd be fools not to try.
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When the doors eventually open and the audience totter in, the candidate had moved next door, leaving only a whiff of cigar smoke hanging in the air.
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‘I've no time for garnishes or tottering towers,’ he says.
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Behind them another three girls, only slightly older, are tottering unsteadily to and from the bar in high-heels, serving beers to the largely local clientele.
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These books examine notions of government and justice in post-colonial times and throw some light on why some Pacific nations seemingly totter from one crisis to another.
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I watch, with my heart in my mouth, as Norman totters along the walkway but ironically, this time, it is not the Yorkshireman who has a problem but a strapping 25-year-old Swede who can go no further because of vertigo.
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In auctioning off monetary gold the managers of irredeemable currency are trying, in vain, to buy time to save their tottering regime.
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His walk was actually tottery as he came down the port side of the cabin.
Chapter 36
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The Grand National festival wants to rid itself of the image of sozzled racegoers flashing the flesh and tottering around in high heels.
The Sun
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On the instant he struck, Lute lightly touched his neck with the rein, impelling him to the left; and in that instant, tottering on the insecure footing, with front feet slipping over into the pool beyond, he lifted on his hind legs, with a half turn, sprang to the left, and dropped squarely down to the tiny gravel bed.
Jack London's Story - Moon Face: Planchette pg 3 of 3
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The city tumbles down the steep slopes to the river's edge where it coalesces into a raffish assortment of bars, cafes and restaurants housed in tottering waterfront terraces.
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We could see, for instance, the doddering old knights and dames of the order tottering in (none of them a day below 70 I'm sure) in procession.
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She spent the duration of the song tottering around on stage in a pair of socks and a floral peach kimono clutching a tiny brolly, right.
The Sun
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a tottering empire
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Some minutes subsequent to Ripton's signalization of his devotion to the bridal pair, Mrs. Berry's maid entered the room to say that a gentleman was inquiring below after the young gentleman who had departed, and found her mistress with a tottering wineglass in her hand, exhibiting every symptom of unconsoled hysterics.
Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete
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The baby began to crawl, then managed her first tottering steps.
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The baby tottered to and fro like a blade of grass in the breeze, unevenly buttoned shirt flaps billowing wildly about.
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It resembled a rectangular crown, a small tottering tower of points and bars rising from the camel's back.
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Evandale; “he is tottering on the verge between time and eternity, a situation more appalling than the most hideous certainty; yet his is the only cheek unblenched, the only eye that is calm, the only heart that keeps its usual time, the only nerves that are not quivering.
Old Mortality
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She was too tottery, too dazzled, too afflated to speak on the way thither, but, at the door, when with a bow I was intending to leave her, she bade me, in a madam-like way that cut off debate or refusal, to enter with her.
The Yeoman Adventurer
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They ran, tottering like elderly little men on walkers, their legs stiff from a life encaged.
Knowing Jesse
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a tottering skeleton of a horse
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In the heels I was tottering about me kitchen making a cup of tea and flicking my hair about.
Times, Sunday Times
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She loves dressing up in my clothes, tottering around in my heels and playing around with my make-up.
The Sun
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Seen tottering around campus in chic suits and a fabulous array of heels.
Times, Sunday Times
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The outfit was completed with a pair of tottering heels and a battered carrier bag she swung from her wrist.
Times, Sunday Times
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A rotten foundation, and a tottering superstruction, which tumbles down upon the builders 'own heads: for,
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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I tottered out and was passed by a tour bus, a panzer-tank soundalike, belching fumes, its upper deck laden with day trippers.
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The teeter-tottering xylophone clomps that used to announce his presence rarely make an appearance without beams of popping noisemakers in tow.
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When the doors eventually open and the audience - no exaggeration - totter in, the candidate had moved next door, leaving only a whiff of cigar smoke hanging in the air.
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Men who had witnessed his advent, noted that he was weak and tottery, and that he staggered over to a heap of cabin-logs and sat down.
THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN
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We could see, for instance, the doddering old knights and dames of the order tottering in (none of them a day below 70 I'm sure) in procession.
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The Grand National festival wants to rid itself of the image of sozzled racegoers flashing the flesh and tottering around in high heels.
The Sun
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` ` The score was kind of teeter-tottering back and forth, but when we needed the big defensive plays, we got them. ''
USATODAY.com
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They think the towering shoes she was tottering around in look like golf clubs and would be totally impractical.
The Sun
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The tall chimney tottered and then collapsed.
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But forget tottering about in wedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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In recent years China has supported the tottering North Korean regime, providing food provisions, oil, strategic supplies and economic aid.
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Adding to his already battered pride, he tottered back into the bedroom on unsteady matchstick legs, attempting to regain maybe a little of his lost composure.
