A3P; c1] totter as one walks under a burden or because of difficulty in getting one’s footing.
A2S3P] totter under a heavy weight with the legs spread far apart for balance and foothold.
I do not totteras I did, but walk firm as a cock, only once or twice for a minute, I do not know how; but it went off, and I never followed it.
I was very much discouraged; for I used to be ill for three or four days together, ready to totter as I walked.
My head is still wrong, but I have had no formal fit, only I totter a little.
I know not what is the matter; it has never been thus before: two days together giddy from morning till night, but not with any violence or pain; and I totter a little, but can make shift to walk.
April, and death strikes, and hills totter in the earthquake, and there is a glamour over all the objects of sight, and a thrill in all noises for the ear, and Romance herself has made her dwelling among men?
I have no choice in the business, and can no more resist this tendency of my mind than I could prevent my body from beginning to totter and decay.
The men below holding the life net under the window, saw him totter and changed their position as fast as possible in order to get under him.
Through the darkness the sinuous street and rickety houses wavered in outline, as the bent shapes of the aged totter across dimly-lit interiors.
Two days later he could totter across the room, and lie down before the fire.
He certainly did drag me in, but he was obliged to sit down afterwards, and I watched him out of one eye as he was making his preparations, and he could only just totter about.
He must be ancient if he has to totter along on two sticks," Jerry said.
Why, you see," the Bottle Man said, "something had hit me very hard and for a long time all that I was able to do was to totter along on the two sticks.
Races may come and go, temples may rise and totter and crumble into dust.
I have seen strong men turn pale and lovely women totter when that can went by.
Divulge the secrets of thy embassy To the proud orbs that twinkle--and so be To ev'ry heart a barrier and a ban Lest the stars totter in the guilt of man!
I see the unfinish'd dormitory wall, I see the Savoy totter to her fall; Hibernian politics, O Swift!
The tremendous "monkey" goes high up, almost out of sight overhead, and glides noiselessly downwards till it beats the metal, making the pulley chains rattle and jingle and the whole shed to totter and tremble.
His poor old hand, almost as hard as iron, shakes with the weight of the hammer; his head trembles visibly, and his legs totter beneath him.
The storm thus darkened thickly over the head of this imperious woman, who, supported against her enemies so long as she had been useful, was subject to the common law of favourites, and began to totter when she appeared no longer so.
Only now and then does she tremble with a fleeting horror, and then the palaces heaped upon her totter to their very foundations.
If the foundations of religion totter in a country they totter not alone; the audacity which begins with things sacred ends with things profane.
The church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct.
A strong and cruel hand was wielding the knotted cords; they sunk deep into the flesh, and thou mightst have tracked every reel and totter of my footsteps by the blood that followed.
The weakness of exhausted passion caused her steps to totter as she descended the pulpit stairs.
Now, when he is disagreeable, I burst into tears at dinner, and upset my glass of claret on the table-cloth, and totter out of the room weak and tremulous.
Finally she had recourse to an article on the revenue in the paper, which soothed him, and she saw the old man totter off to bed with extreme uneasiness, yet not daring even to suggest a night light, so irritable did he seem.
Such was the man under whom the mightiest of the world's structures was doomed to totter to its fall!
But the Antique managed to totter around the Course, playing short but safe, always getting Direction and keeping away from the Profanity Pits.
Bernice would get home after one of these wild swoops into the realm of the Death Angel, and totter to her room and lie down, and murmur: "I wonder what ailed Kenneth to-day.
The small-footed women have so little centripedal power, that they can hardlytotter from one ottoman to another without a stick.
During a few moments, I held on, weakly; and then managed tototter sideways into a chair.
Yet another week passed, before I was strong enough to totterout into the gardens.
One day I lay upon the summit of a hill and saw him totter in the valley.
