Still he is not softened; and when, the critical moment passed, Carmel rises and totters about the room in her endeavour to fulfil the tasks enjoined upon her by her sister, he gloats over a death which will give him independence and gluts himself with every evil thought which could blind him to the pitiful aspects of a tragedy such as few men in this world could see unmoved.

Three bulls against the knight are loosed, and two come roaring on, He rises high in stirrup, forth stretching his rejón; Each furious beast upon the breast he deals him such a blow He blindly totters and gives back, across the sand to go.

She lifts them Regent (totters and falls into his arms with a tired, happy laugh, which ends in a cry as his arms enfold her).

In great crises, where everything totters and seems ready to fall, a People has need to lay hold of something.

Old Beroe's decrepit shape she wears, Her wrinkled visage, and her hoary hairs; Whilst in her trembling gait she totters on, And learns to tattle in the nurse's tone.

When these irregular pulsations fade out, the shadows appear deeper, and the spirit totters and then.

In the left-hand margin of the MS. is written "Fry: Jo: nod."i.e., Friar John totters from the blow.

I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane.

"Year after year steals something from us, till the decaying fabric totters of itself, and at length crumbles into dust.

Even the mighty figure of Sainte-Beuve totters at the whisper of the name Balzac.

Godlike the poise that to your bearing lends The aspect of a tower that never totters; There's a divinity hath shaped your ends (Rough-hewn, perhapsespecially your trotters); Your ample chest, your generous girth Have no precise similitude on earth.

The pond'rous tree swings heavily, And totters from its place.

The whole shattered ridge totters.

He totters along behind them "almost crushed to earth beneath a burden which their unencumbered strength is greatly more able to support, but they touch it not with so much as one of their fingers." EXPOSING THE SICK AND AGED "The Gallinomeros kill their aged parents in a most coldblooded manner," says Bancroft (I., 390), and this custom, too, prevails on both sides of the Continent.

When she is free from her prison she appears bleached a light yellow, as though made out of wax, and totters along on small, thin feetwhich the natives consider especially attractive.

Through Roncesvalles, well he knows, A stream of running water flows, And fain would he a journey make To fetch thereof for Roland's sake, He totters forth; he makes essay; But all!

When Rome totters, poor Jerusalem!

He kind of totters, walkin' with his feet apart to keep his balance.

The old woman totters in to say her "Ave Maria," the young woman to pray away her perplexities.

he hears a piteous moan60 Again!his heart within him dies His pulse is stopped, his breath is lost, He totters, pallid as a ghost, And, looking down, espies A lamb, that in the pool is pent 65 Within that black and frightful rent.

Nera totters, extends her arms, then falls heavily backward, her head striking on the parquet floor.

The temple shakes; It totters!

Sir Golf and Sir Tennis are fighting like mad Now Sir Tennis is blown, and Sir Golf's right above him, And his face has a look that is weary and sad, As he hastily turns to the ladies, who love him, But the racket falls from him, he totters, and swirls, As he hears them cry, "Golf is the game for the girls!" * *

Only the body is weak and tottering, broken by age and the battles of his time, like a hacked and dented old iron armor, and it is touching when he totters under it to the tribune and has reached his old post, to see how he draws a deep breath and smiles.

She totters still in walking.