Even the decisive defeat of Chung Wang alone might have entailed the collapse of the cause now tottering to its fall.
When wasting age and wearying strife Have sapped the leaning walls of life, When darkness gathers over all, And the last tottering pillars-fall, Take the poor dust thy mercy warms, And mould it into heavenly forms!
Look with what a blushless face of triumph she eyes her poor tottering neighbour opposite, who never appears destined "to suffer a recovery.
I found a plenty of old ladies tottering on the edge of the grave, like myself, and I found a number of ladies in the shops and in the churches; but in that set that you go with--!
Like the "wonderful one-hoss shay," the tottering old chair had collapsed and the docent lay sprawling under the ruins.
It had no railings or balustrades at the sides, and the abutments at the two ends had become so loosened by the heavy rains that it seemed every moment on the verge of tottering into the abyss below.
Upon the second crest, and in the cleft between the two, are huddled together the steep alleys and crazy tottering houses, all corners and gables, of the old town.
She rose with great difficulty, and, tottering over towards him, laid her head upon his bosom, and looking up with a smile of melancholy tenderness into his face, burst into tears.
Nevertheless, they might have hoped to preserve their tottering authority through his support.
But when the music dies away, when the tames is no longer there, then the passions he has summoned forth are left roaring in their tottering cage, and they seek their prey.
The depraved dilettantists, the foetid amoralists, have accomplished their termitic task; the tottering ruins must be brought down before they can be built up again.
With all the haste his tottering gait allowed Cho[u]bei sprang off northward to the Adzumabashi and home.
Locking a leg in his tottering supports I threw him down into the ditch.
Bruin's attention was shortly after aroused anew, by observing a wretched old dog tottering under the weight of a large bundle, strapped upon his back, which he was conveying to the city.
Because the majority of the Chinese people have lost all faith in the tottering Yuan Shi-kai who is discredited and attacked by the whole nation for having sold his country.
Reluctantly I came out of my retirement and endeavoured to prop up the tottering structure.
Yes, sir; he repeated the operation of tottering backward.
Well, I must have put in about the tottering in my affidavit, and omitted it later before the coroner.
Yet of late, the perilous position of the tottering garrison of Quebec had been so patent that they felt that concentration was the policy of the hour.
It was only in 1747 that the tottering fortunes of the Hôpital Général were handed over to Madame d'Youville, but she had long before been designated for this work by M.
In spite of all his self-control, Ninyas turned deadly pale, rocking and tottering where he stood, like a man stricken sore in fight.
Through threats or entreaties they restored many a tottering battle array, inciting the men to heroism.
With staff in hand and tottering knee, Upon the slippery brink he stood, And watched, with doting ecstasy, Each wreath of foam that rode the flood.
