If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter. From LearnThat.org. [François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)]
A teeter-totter is probably more like it. From Wordnik.com. [Hanging in the Balance] Reference
Sancie! he can just walk -- a kind of totter from my knees to Cuthbert's -- and then so proud of himself!. From Wordnik.com. [Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution] Reference
Teeter-totter all you want, but men apparently don. From Wordnik.com. [Men Don't Notice When Women Wear High Heels, Study Says (POLL)] Reference
Then he suddenly began to sway and totter on his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference
They saw the throne of their fathers beginning to totter. From Wordnik.com. [Stories and Sketches] Reference
She felt herself begin to sway and totter -- she fainted. From Wordnik.com. [When Dreams Come True] Reference
And Thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand fast!. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
The woman roused herself and began to totter feebly forward. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
The virtue contained in the things will cause him to totter. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian] Reference
Earl was, and then to totter hack again until the next morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
His companions would totter, one after another, to their graves. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
He looked like an aged eagle beginning to totter from its perch. '. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
The pursuers came up, and saw a figure totter and fall at their feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy] Reference
The maker had pride in his work, and, to see it totter and tumble, was. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
His pace has slackened, and there is an occasional totter in his step. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
I totter down to the grave, while you go on from strength to strength. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference
One was the teeter-totter scientific argument of nature versus nurture. From Wordnik.com. [THE GOOD ENOUGH MOTHER] Reference
Mr. Draper felt as if "his mountain stood strong," yet it began to totter. From Wordnik.com. [Rich Enough a tale of the times] Reference
No sooner did a pet ideal totter than she steadied it with patient, tender hands. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
He told the SS woman in charge that he had come for Cybulska, who was beginning to totter. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Days Of Auschwitz] Reference
He was standing looking out over the street when he noticed her totter and clutch a chair. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
I totter to my feet: I bend my feeble steps thither, and sink down beneath the welcome shade. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
Most of us think of bad shoes as five-inch stilettos that cause the wearer to wobble and totter. From Wordnik.com. [Leora Tanenbaum: Take Off Those Flip-Flops! And 5 Other Essential Summer Shoe Tips] Reference
An earthquake has shaken the city, and its buildings totter and fall in fragments on the people. From Wordnik.com. [Luca Signorelli] Reference
Most of us think of "bad shoes" as five-inch stilettos that cause the wearer to wobble and totter. From Wordnik.com. [Leora Tanenbaum: Take Off Those Flip-Flops! And 5 Other Essential Summer Shoe Tips] Reference
It was a fatal mistake, for that last blow chopped the tree in two and it began to sway and totter. From Wordnik.com. [Hazel Squirrel and Other Stories] Reference
The only thing which she did was to totter to the room early in the morning, so as to find out how the. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
Slowly my footsteps totter along the earth, as when I first stepped into my mother's outstretched arms. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Children or, Stories from Cloud-Land] Reference
Teeter-totter all you want, but men apparently don't notice when a woman wears high heels, Time magazine reports. From Wordnik.com. [Men Don't Notice When Women Wear High Heels, Study Says (POLL)] Reference
This is a teeter-totter that both major American political parties are forced to ride, at times, I should point out. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: Tea Party's GOP Hostile Takeover Continues] Reference
He saw him totter and waver and then sit down in a helpless, pitiful way, -- then lie down as if it were sweet to rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
It will totter to an untimely grave, and hobble, a feeble and contemptible instrument, from this Congress to every State. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
The date was April 22,1994, and the three-year-old dictatorship of Haitian strongman Raoul Cedras was beginning to totter. From Wordnik.com. [Is The United States A Haven For Torturers?] Reference
Berlin, Vienna and St. Petersburg, the strongholds of despotism in Europe, each will totter -- all but the last will fall. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
It is Dan Jansen, one totter away from a final horrific fall, maintaining his balance and finally winning the Olympic gold. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Almost A Choker] Reference
We've been damned by corpses and skeletons and mummies, which twitch and totter with pseudo-life derived from conveniences. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Should that trust totter for an instant, would not the faintest possible hint be sufficient to re-establish it on a firm basis?. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
If large-scale rioting were to break out in Pakistan as a result of U.S. strikes against Afghanistan, the Army might start to totter. From Wordnik.com. [A Dictator's Dilemma] Reference
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