She lifted the tottering apex just in time to prevent its fall.

The king, who relied on the pope for the support of his tottering authority, never failed to countenance those exactions.

" Lord Byron seems to cast himself indignantly from "this bank and shoal of time," or the frail tottering bark that bears up modern reputation, into the huge sea of ancient renown, and to revel there with untired, outspread plume.

Weak as any little tottering childwhite as the sheets he lies on; with prominent cheek-bones, and great and languid eyes, he is given back to us.

You're ever building, building to the clouds, Still building higher, and still higher building, And ne'er reflect that the poor narrow basis Cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.

For centuries past have so many honorable men fought in vain to uphold the old tottering constitution, as you call it?

Remote recollections of former dealings with civilised human beings, in the shape of masters and overseers, seemed to me to be the only idea not purely idiotic in the minds of the poor old tottering creatures that gathered to stare with dim and blear eyes at me and my children.

VII Kindly hearts have I known; Kindly hearts, they are flown; Here and there if but one Linger yet uneffaced, Imbecile tottering elves, Soon to be wreck'd on shelves, These scarce are half themselves, With age and care crazed.

To encourage an industrious native population on the one hand, and on the other to declare the slave-trade piratical, are the first necessary steps in that march of improvement, by which this tottering empire may yet be preserved from premature decay.

'A man must keep a woman, said the poor fellow to me, but not his estate!Two interests!Then, my tottering fabric!' pointing to his emaciated carcass.

Bernard, to her son's astonishment, begs him to lend the tottering firm the sum required.

"Captain Bignall," observed the former, pointing to the tottering form which was leaning on Wilder for support, "on my life, you are mistaken in the character of this lady.

" There was a babel of voices and a self-gratulatory proffer of lithe forms, while the old gondolier turned undecidedly from one to another, and the tottering gransiere ostentatiously protected the velvet mantle of the artist as he sprang into the boat.

" "When once the tottering house begins to shrink, Thither comes all the weight by an instinct.

Talks of ambition's tottering seat, How envy persecutes the great, Of rival hate, of treacherous friends, And what disgrace his fall attends.

He has left, however, upon me an impression more lasting perhaps than that of the old tottering staircase that threatens to close up every moment like a toy snake that has been stretched out.

355 "Drink deep, sweet youths" seductive VITIS cries, The maudlin tear-drop glittering in her eyes; Green leaves and purple clusters crown her head, And the tall Thyrsus stays her tottering tread.