I could see the houses toppling over, half a mile from the levee.
Some of the negroes our boats picked up on planks and on their toppling houses might have been drowned; but I did not believe the people in the mansion-houses were in any great danger.
XXXI God moves in a Mysterious Way: how the Finished Miss Avery appears as the Instrument of Providence; how Sharlee sees her Idol of Many Years go toppling in the Dust, and how it is her Turn to meditate in the Still Watches.
XXXI God moves in a Mysterious Way: how the finished Miss Avery appears as the Instrument of Providence; how Sharlee sees her Idol of Many Years go toppling in the Dust, and how it is her Turn to meditate in the Still Watches.
He asked each applicant how close he could drive to a precipice without toppling over.
Let me not see this soul-house built of mud Go toppling to the dust--a vacant shrine!
Sanchia ran out of her tent, toppling over her candle; both Helen and Howard sprang up.
Bob Doran, toppling from a high barstool, sways over the munching spaniel.
I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry, and time one livid final flame.
Time's livid final flame leaps and, in the following darkness, ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry.
And here you go, toppling my picture over, without the least remorse.
Then the matchlock blazed and he watched the horseman buckle backward in the saddle, toppling into a circle of waiting Rajput swords.
The horse seemed to know exactly what was expected, as it instantly reared backward, unseating Jadar's mahout and toppling him into the dust.
Among them was Preciosa, with a big feathered hat toppling on her head and the desperate look of some hunted creature on her face.
One touch may send a shudder through the heap And bring it toppling on our children's heads!
Their convoy's flight, Cut off a moment, coiled inside the flame That wallowed like a dragon at his game The topplingcity through--San Biagio rocks!
I am sure, by the sound, that it was the toppling down of the boards; he has most likely displaced some of them in his descent.
Some of them seem conscious of the stupendous absurdity of this appearance; they smile at you or laugh as the structure goes towering and toppling by.
We can no more analyse such peace in the soul than we can conceive in our heads the whole enormous and dizzy equilibrium by which, out of suns roaring like infernos and heavens toppling like precipices, He has hanged the world upon nothing.
The Eugenist has to settle, not the result of fixing one steady thing to a second steady thing; but what will happen when one toppling and dizzy equilibrium crashes into another.
It passed under balconied housestoppling perilously forward; and as Roy entered it, a figure darkened the other end.
These toppling rocks and tangled boughs, Impenetrable by the noonday beam, Shall be sole witnesses of what we-- FLORO: Draw!
Rise and seize his toppling lyre, And sing Freedom, Home, and Love, And the rights thereof!
To the toppling decks clave one and all As a fly cleaves to a chamber wall.
The force of the blow, however, was enough to send Orren toppling over.
Lloyd brought forth the rifle from his leg holster and shot at the Cardinal, toppling his horse out from under him and sending him into a pile of corpses heaped beside the shock wall.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toppling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
