A tottering empire. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A tottering skeleton of a horse. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a tottering empire. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : The tower seemed to totter in the wind. The government was tottering. ,a load that tottered. From Dictionary.com.
He turned to watch his sister, once again tottering toward the glimmering fake plants. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » Jared Axelrod : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
Karnataka and prop up the "tottering" Congress government in Andhra Pradesh. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
And with a heavy step, almost tottering, he went out. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And the strong wrestler went tottering up the stairs. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Peik to come tottering back again with his fooling rods. From Wordnik.com. [East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon] Reference
Like a Wrist under the wheelwright of a tottering cartel!. From Wordnik.com. [The Sea at Sea (or Why is There a Question Instead of Not a Question)] Reference
Washington quietly edged away from the tottering strongman. From Wordnik.com. [Indonesia In Flames] Reference
I can see her now, with her silvered hair and tottering step. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
And twittering, tottering sideways he ne'er got straight again. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Saronia, and thou, half-hearted, art tottering on thy throne. '. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
I went away crushed, scarcely able to direct my tottering steps. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Trees were trimmed, and some of the tottering ones cut down entirely. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
One moment more, and, swaying, tottering first from side to side, poor. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
The great body moved, gathered itself, stood tottering, gazing wildly about. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
Weak and spent with fever, the Bakers descended tottering to the water's edge. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
I ran ahead of the tottering figure and she followed, her steps gathering strength. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
Still on they went, till the horses paused, trembling and tottering, ready to fall. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
She feels herself teeter-tottering between the left side of her head and the right. From Wordnik.com. [Animals, Animals, Animals] Reference
When I asked Mugabe about his country's tottering economy, the response was forthright. From Wordnik.com. [Africa's Silence On Mugabe] Reference
THE ECONOMY No problem requires more urgent attention than the tottering Soviet economy. From Wordnik.com. [Falling Idols] Reference
To replace the former even with a tottering wooden structure, was a work of time and labor. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
But their kindness is akin to keeping a tottering infant from taking his first dangerous steps. From Wordnik.com. [Class Struggle] Reference
She's a little kid and she's going to be tottering around on these stilettos or quasi-stilettos?. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Holmes Splurges On Designer Dresses For Suri At New York Fashion Week: Report (PHOTOS)] Reference
Or spun the bank's way, for shoring up a tottering financial system and preventing total collapse. From Wordnik.com. [Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Summers Out, Could Geithner and Rubin Be Next?] Reference
At this stage an aged woman came towards them; tottering with fear, and led by two Roman soldiers. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
A woman tottering on spike heels in a bear suit approaches my car, and I roll down the window. From Wordnik.com. [A Night of Furversion] Reference
The finance minister has already pumped capital into the tottering lender, Ireland's third-biggest. From Wordnik.com. [In Two-Front War, Irish Finance Boss Battles Illness, Renewed Fiscal Fears] Reference
Then the heavy curtain was lifted again, and tottering, livid, almost dead, Micheline entered the room. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Austria, in 1867, was a great military despotism, tottering to its fall amidst a group of eager rivals. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Hardly had it ground on the shingle than a tattered and ragged -- a tottering figure crawled from the bushes. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
It was painful to look at him, -- he was like a feeble, frightened, tottering child, who would come on, but cannot. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
He stepped into the room, and with tottering steps moved over to the door of the adjoining room, the chamber of Renie. From Wordnik.com. [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference
How long do you rush in upon a man? you all kill, as if you were thrusting down a leaning wall, and a tottering fence. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
He returned home late, ate little at dinner, and then went out again with a tottering step to pace the dark, gloomy streets. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
We straggled in toward the Hills, towing our tottering horses behind us: they had long since grown too weak to carry a rider. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
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