Bambi caught at Jarvis's sleeve and tottered a step.

And in a phase of tottering thrones it is very undesirable that the British habit of asylum should be abused.

She struggled to her feet and tottered down the sand.

You that bring Thunders in your mouths, and Earthquakes To shake and totter my designs?

But after several such attempts he finally stood on his feet, unsteady on his legs, and tottering like one drunken.

The representations addressed by the Parliament to the king, on the 20th of January, touching a re-coinage of all moneys, which had been suggested by Law, dealt the last blow at the chancellor's already tottering favor.

She had vowed never again to pass through the gate of her house; but did she sometimes totter to her gardenthat beautiful garden which she had created, with its roses and its fountains, its alleys and its bowersand look westward at the sea?

But, observe you that feeble, tottering old gentleman coming along the avenue?

"I go for campin' airly," groaned the limping and tottering Glover.

Rich or poor, tall or dumpy, tottering grandmothers or babies in swaddling-clothes, they long for ampler pastures.

All Peter Rorke's vaunted courage deserted him; conscience-stricken and smitten by sudden agonising fears, he uttered a shrill quavering scream and began to totter down the hill with all the speed he could muster.

Nor will the shott stay there, but with full violence Run through the rancke of frends, disperse and totter The best and fairest hopes thy fame was built on.

"A kindly old fraud who presides over his two acres with tottering good humor, dispensing advice and tea to wanderers.

First came tottering the gray-headed Mr. Krause, slowly and sadly; then came Mr. Kretschmer, formerly the brave, undaunted hero of the quillnow a poor, trembling, crushed piece of humanity.

See you not, Julia, my decaying frame, my faded cheek, and tottering limbs?

The audience consists of an ancient Gaul in picturesque blue pants, whose métier is to totter round the meadows brushing flies off a piebald cow; the School Padre, who keeps at long range so that he may see the sport without hearing the language, and ten little gamins, who have been splashing in the silver stream and are now sitting drying on the bank like ten little toads.

We tottered down the lateral moraine in the dark, over boulders and tree trunks, through the bushes and devil-club thickets of the grove where we had sheltered ourselves in the morning, and across the level mud-slope of the terminal moraine.

And the plodding, law-abiding citizens who kiss their wives and hold close their babies and fling hasty, comforting words over their shoulders to tottering old mothers when they go to answer the hunting callthey will be your savages when the gold lust grips them.

The poor black with difficulty extricated himself from this murderous grasp, hurried on shore, tottered a few paces from the water's edge, and fell.

FAMULUS (tottering up the long dark passage)

Benevolent old gentlemen, garbed like second- hand Field Marshals, tottered down the quaysides and took the salutes of startled French soldiers with bland but dignified benevolence.

During a few moments, I held on, weakly; and then managed to totter sideways into a chair.

She would have fallen had not one of her fellow-travelers, a lady evidently not much her senior, thrown her arm around her; thus aided, she managed to reach the steamer's deck and to totter down the staircase leading to the ladies' cabin.

Staring, I saw a fearsome sightover its walls crawled a legion of unholy things, almost covering the old building, from tottering towers to base.

It could not be the same, for this little child was even smaller than Dolly; but as she came pattering and tottering down the garden-walk towards them, they saw that she had the same fair curly hair, and blue eyes, and rosy cheeks that Dolly had had two years before.