A tottering skeleton of a horse.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A tottering empire.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used without object) : The tower seemed to totter in the wind. The government was tottering. ,a load that tottered.    From Dictionary.com. 

Adjective : a tottering empire.    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 the strong wrestler went tottering up the stairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference

And with a heavy step, almost tottering, he went out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] 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

Saronia, and thou, half-hearted, art tottering on thy throne. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] 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

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

She feels herself teeter-tottering between the left side of her head and the right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animals, Animals, Animals] 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

I ran ahead of the tottering figure and she followed, her steps gathering strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valley of the Croen] 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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