1595 examples of staggers in sentences

Over the mountain slowly staggers the hunter.

Nay, faith, sir, we must have some smith to give the butler a drench, or cut him in the forehead, for he hath got a horse's disease, namely the staggers; to-night he's a good huswife, he reels all that he wrought to-day; and he were good now to play at dice, for he casts excellent well. FRAN.

she whispers, and turns to go; but the young man, numb and helpless, staggers nigh to falling.

Now it swayed uncertainly, much as a drunken man staggers down a street.

" "It staggers you at first, of course, Jack," he said, in his confident, convincing way.

Plato and Aristotle are so preserved to man, and the philosophers of modernism also; it is only the magisterial and dynamic philosophy of Christianity that is diffused through many works, some of them still untranslated and all quite without coordination, save St. Thomas Aquinas alone, the magnitude of whose product staggers the human mind and in its profuseness defeats its own ends.

Dear Sir,The unbounded range of munificence presented to my choice staggers me.

He forces his way into the presence of the Consuls, but the sight of his father inspires him with awe; he staggers back; at this moment a Lictor at the command of the other Consul plunges a spear into his breast.

" Gilliatt leaned with his back against the wall, like one who staggers, and said, in a tone very low, but distinct, "No." Lethierry started.

My data are the distance at which they were seen from Kewewena portage, under the influence of great refraction, and the distance on the following day without unusual refraction, and I am convinced they cannot be less than 2000 feet high; if, however, this staggers you, say 1800, and I am confident you are within the real elevation.

I see that that staggers you a little.

Staggers into newspaper office wild-eyed.

For example, taking the sample beginning that I gave above, The Man, whom I left sitting at the cabaret table, above, rises unsteadily it is the recognised way of rising in a cabaretand, settling the reckoning with the waiter, staggers into the street.

As The Man staggers into the "night air," the writer has timejust a little time, for the modern reader is impatientto explain who he is and why he staggers.

As The Man staggers into the "night air," the writer has timejust a little time, for the modern reader is impatientto explain who he is and why he staggers.

The papers simply teem with secret histories of the week, diaries of omniscient pundits and so forth, in which these rumours multiply to an extent that staggers the plain person.

Riot cries aloud, and staggers and swaggers in his rank dens of shame; and the Mother, with streaming hair, kneels over her pallid dying infant, whose cracked lips only her tears now moisten.

He replied, "The horse has the staggers, and I am going to sell him to the carrion-butchers.

He had the staggers very badly, and I sent him to the carrion-butchers.

Suddenly Parker rises, staggers toward the window, falls, and is dead before a doctor can get to him.

An' do ye know that I'm Padna Sweeney from Clashbeg? MICUS (also buttons his coat and looks aggressively at Head) An' that I'm his old pal Micus Goggin from Castleclover? PADNA (as he staggers) Don't mind him, Micus.

[Brophy staggers into the room slightly intoxicated.

PATCHA (excitedly, to Nedsers) Where's the food I sent you for? NEDSERS (staggers to the side of the bed and sits down) Wait and I'll tell you what happened to me.

In the combat between Roland and his enemies in the Petit Roi de Galice, the hero staggers and Froïla leaps forward to crush him: Mais Durandal se dresse et jette Froïla Sur Pacheco, dont l'âme en ce moment hurla.

Thus does the poor shepherd-maiden fare, on whose head the king places a crown; even though her heart be proud to love him, yet the crown is too heavy and her little head staggers under the burden.

1595 examples of  staggers  in sentences