| 单词 | tottering |
| 例句 | Each a tottering fiefdom with an epic of its own. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Ralph stood now, one hand against an enormous red block, a block large as a mill wheel that had been split off and hung, tottering. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Before Aunty Uju went into the bedroom, tottering under her many anxieties, she said, “Please just pray that it will work.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Constance came tottering after her, struggling to keep up as Kate rounded the classroom building and charged onto the empty plaza. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z As Perry continued to sort and choose, the pile of material he thought too dear to part with, even temporarily, assumed a tottering height. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Then suddenly, as if some force were at work other than his own will, he began to hurry, tottering forward, his groping hands held out, his head lolling from side to side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z All of this is a salutary lesson in the way tottering edifices of theology can be built on a small textual misunderstanding. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It was a small room, crowded with tottering piles of papers and books, and the whiteboards on the walls were covered in figures and equations. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl was tottering forward, bent at the waist, one arm draped protectively across the taut drum of her belly, the shape of which was visible through her burqa. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z In one of the tottering piles in my office, I found the logs from the private detectives hired by Whitehorn’s estate after his death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z No shouts, no curses, no threats, no tottering footsteps. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “Who knew better than I on what a precarious, tottering house of cards my whole life rested?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z On the river, you might see a stately junk, tottering its way upstream, slatted sails rising to meet the wind. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z As it skids down the steep, irregular terrain in fits and starts, the mass of ice splinters into a jumble of huge, tottering blocks called seracs, some as large as office buildings. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z They seemed to think that the Enemy was looking high and low for me, and would make mincemeat of me, if he caught me tottering about in the Wild. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z These African states have fallen prey to the British-American imperialist conspiracy to use the committee’s recommendations as a pretext for a massive arms support for their puppet and tottering neocolonialist regime in Nigeria.... Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Little figures black against the snow and the fire came tottering or running from it, and witches flew down to help drag them away from the flames. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z But that night she was like the little tottering, stumbling, clutching child, who of a sudden realizes its powers, and walks for the first time alone, boldly and with overconfidence. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z In Mercerism, an absolute evil plucked at the threadbare cloak of the tottering, ascending old man, but it was never clear who or what this evil presence was. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Now,” he removed a tottering pile of papers from an armchair and sat down, his Wellingtoned legs crossed, “how may I help you, Mr. Potter?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Smooth,” said Ron approvingly as the waiters popped up on all sides, some bearing silver trays of pumpkin juice, butterbeer, and firewhisky, others tottering piles of tarts and sandwiches. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The first was that England was “tottering to her fall,” that her economy was collapsing and “she must soon be a bankrupt and unable to maintain her naval superiority.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “I am come down to see your third strata,” he said, tottering and wincing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He rose, tottering, and he shouted that all was well; he charged forward, limping, his men behind him. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The stalks were up to Cora’s shoulders now, bending and tottering, sprouting leaves and squares that were bigger every morning. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The cat must have sensed this general failing, for he now walked steadily beside the dogs, very close to his tottering old friend, and uttered plaintive worried bleats. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then tottering, struggling up, with her last strength she drove her sword between crown and mantle, as the great shoulders bowed before her. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They wheeled the tottering cart back up the road and stood there in the cold and the gathering dark and called but no one came. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He was a slow, tottering little thing, but Roz was rarely in a hurry, and together they loved meandering along the forest paths and around the banks of the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z When she moved slightly, the great muscles of her nether cheeks rippled to life to prevent the stool from leaning and tottering even an inch. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Two wooden gates hung open, and from the other side of the road, Alex could see a shed with a security window and beyond it the tottering piles of dead and broken cars. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He rose and stood tottering in that cold autistic dark with his arms outheld for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Cousin Eunice replaced her glasses and pushed herself up from the table, tottering a little in her high heels. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Nan stumbles to her feet and takes one tottering step toward the Mask. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The father groped his way tottering to his chair and let himself fall in it. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z Isn't he a singer still today?—and they stand, they calm, and with him they sing out against the tottering of their giant. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z A moment later, Miss Peregrine came tottering out, dizzy after spending so long in the dark. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The first time I saw his triangular form teetering and tottering about the zoo, I was shy to approach him. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She looked a trifle dazed and who could blame her, but after a minute or so she was on her feet again and tottering back towards the playground. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Bathilda was tottering around the place lighting candles, but it was still very dark, not to mention extremely dirty. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z From across the room Penelope spotted Lady Constance tottering her way back toward them. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z After all, awful and awesome in equal measure, those shoes, with their stubbed toes and tottering platforms, were, as invented objects, quite beautiful. Special Report: Fashion: The Savage and the Romantic 2010-09-20T17:36:00Z Larissa resembles a comely human luggage cart carrying the tottering emotional baggage of her past. Theater Review: ‘The Good Mother,’ at the Acorn Theater 2012-11-16T03:00:00Z The only food station that seemed to remain untouched by the Size 0 galleristas tottering on spiked platform heels was serving dessert. ArtsBeat: For Some Visitors to Art Basel Miami Beach, a Reminder of Sandy's Ravages 2012-12-05T21:50:17Z The two-minute tale culminates with Ella landing headfirst in a bucket after attempting a cartwheel, then tottering around “like a zombie,” until her animal friends come to her aid. A Kid’s Show Juggernaut That Leaves Nothing to Chance 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z There were newspapers in the living room, where foot traffic was dictated by the paths carved between tottering piles. Bill Blackbeard, Comic Strip Champion, Dies at 84 2011-04-29T23:46:48Z Nuns in starched costumes walk about holding tottering piles of linen. The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z In the theater, 700 people’s worlds collide each night, but this evening we were all tottering on one of the great tectonic shifts as our whole world was realigned. Rupert Everett Gets His Oscar (Wilde, That Is) 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z While those throngs are a boon to Venezuela's tottering tourism industry, they also scatter a prehistoric landscape with unwanted litter and strain a delicate ecosystem. Adventurers flock to Venezuela's 'Lost World' mountain 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z But with just a tottering head that often spews flames and smoke, the horse looks a little comic. Music Review: ‘Les Troyens,’ at the Royal Opera House in London 2012-06-26T21:10:52Z Switching between the antiseptic medical institutions of 20th-century America and the pitiless chaos of the tottering Ottoman Empire, Mark Mustian reveals the unfeeling man that Conn/Khan was and the man he became. Newly Released Books 2010-09-16T14:56:00Z All the potential for drama and comedy is sacrificed to this totteringly high concept. Film review: It's a Wonderful Afterlife 2010-04-22T22:20:00Z That first night, I slept on the floor on a futon next to a tottering kerosene heater. The Kisses That Paid My Rent 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z His imaginary world – an enclosed, decadent, opaque society that burrowed and wormed amid a tottering gothic city-castle that was falling in ruins even as its rulers schemed – was an intensely visual creation. Gormenghast author Mervyn Peake: master of the dark arts 2011-07-15T13:23:09Z Instead, she stuffs herself into at least three versions of shapewear before tottering out to gasp farewell to Lilly and Rock in an uncomfortably high register. "And Just Like That," Charlotte reminds us of the longstanding fatphobia in "Sex and the City" 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z Bosch’s hellscapes presented palpable pandemonium, and even his more routine works were enlivened by inventive details: a winged fish with an unfriendly expression following Christ across a river; a tottering demon protruding from a funnel. Hieronymus Bosch’s Five-Hundredth-Anniversary Homecoming 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The duo started out in unison then diverged, creating a disquieting undertone, not unlike watching a person tottering along the edge of a ridgeline. Review | Either/Or gives focused, sometimes unforgiving performance 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Thanks to its tottering streets and its ancient hotel, it is unnervingly familiar. One shade of grey: how Nicola Beauman made an unlikely success of Persephone Books 2012-11-25T00:05:20Z The hero, or anti-hero, is a tottering tower of reason whose visitation by dark forces seems a fitting punishment for his intellectual arrogance. The BBC's MR James adaptation could be the ghost at the Christmas feast 2010-12-24T10:52:42Z "Lincoln wasn't about to recognize a black man who killed three white officers when he has to convince four tottering border states to remain in the Union," he said. Black seaman's 1861 heroics recalled in new film 2011-07-07T15:30:30Z I can see Richards now, tottering distractedly down the sloping, tongue-shaped stage to create a cacophonous discord. Is Keith Richards a 'good thing'? 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z The relationship between foreground and background stays unsettled, and everything seems to be on the edge of tottering over. Amy Sillman’s Breakthrough Moment Is Here 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z A few images feature Kganye as a wide-eyed, ebullient baby, celebrating her first birthday or tottering across a lawn. A Daughter’s Ghostly Re-Creations of Her Late Mother’s Old Photographs 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z That she is almost certainly the best hope for her country is a chilling notion, all the more so for the resemblance of that tottering republic to our own. Sex Goddess, Celebrity and the Best Hope for Her Country 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Her high heels are remarkable – transparent plastic, with maybe 4cm wedges at the front, flashing green lights with each tottering step. Too much to bare: behind the scenes at a lap-dancing club 2012-07-20T21:59:00Z Then again, that ladder is unstable and balanced atop a tottering platform. Review: At the Big Apple Circus, It’s a Family Affair 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z She is still a tottering presence in Lycra and platform heels. Review | It’s Mariah Carey season, and ‘Caution’ is perfectly timed 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Wendi Deng reared out of yesterday's proceedings like a Jocasta in waiting, flanked by the old and the young kings of a tottering Atrium. Could you make it up? Phone hacking in literature 2011-07-20T13:42:13Z The tottering Italian economy is hitting funding for both sites, leaving them dangerously dependent on increasing tourist numbers. British Museum to showcase relics from Pompeii and Herculaneum 2013-02-24T15:21:57Z The wigmaker, tottering in heels and casting her own long mane over her shoulder, flutters her wide eyes as she explains that she keeps a box of tissues nearby for this very occasion. Confessions of a rabbi’s wife: “I wanted to hide behind a husband and a wig” 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z Atmosphere is conjured with emergency instructions replaying on a tinny radio, and the occasional visits from the radioactive humans tottering around outside are a welcome diversion. ‘Aftermath,’ a Postapocalyptic Tale by Peter Engert 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Future excavation, and the plans for a major museum to display the extraodinary finds, may depend on what the future holds for the tottering Greek economy. Historian weeps at groundbreaking Alexander the Great exhibition 2011-04-06T17:04:13Z The overtones of martyrdom and sacrifice in this religious parable sat uneasily with the images of Watson tottering around the Scottish countryside in hotpants and heels. Are you a female movie character? Are you promiscuous? Things won’t end well for you … 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z Elderly, and fatally trusting, she is shown tottering around with her pink wig on backward, slugging gin and falling drunkenly into a toilet. With a Friend Like Him, They Didn’t Need Enemies 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Todd acknowledges the challenges the president faced entering office: a tottering economy, two wars inherited from the Bush administration, and an obstructionist Republican opposition. Chuck Todd's 'The Stranger,' About Barack Obama 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z The tottering women whom he personified onstage, his body twisted and grotesque, were both forces of nature and fragile creatures with flapping shoes and skewed wigs. Obituaries: Kazuo Ohno, a Founder of Japanese Butoh, Dies at 103 2010-06-02T03:25:00Z Hoop skirts cut dancers’ shins and left them tottering during spins, and arched headdresses “slipped and were then impossible to adjust,” she writes. Antiques: A Ballet?s Costumes Take Center Stage 2010-09-23T21:11:00Z At this rate, you’ll be tottering around in comfortable slacks by the time everyone sees Silicon Valley for the masterpiece it is. Silicon Valley: the best and only comedy you should be watching 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z When confronted with this season’s tottering tower of new travel literature, I found it easy to sympathize with poor Pascal. Travel: Philip Marsden’s ‘Rising Ground’ and More 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Lebanon today is a tottering weak country that is heavily influenced if not controlled by Iran and Hezbollah. ‘Beirut’ Trailer Was Supposed to Thrill. Instead It Offended. 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z The votes have been cast, and the judges are tottering, high-heeled, towards the closing night ceremony. Cannes film festival 2010: competition roundup 2010-05-23T16:58:00Z The orchestra captures the sounds of crackling thunder and roiling waves; chorus members erupt with cries of fear as they see the ship tottering. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Delivers a Seething ‘Otello’ 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z A crenelated wall of books encircles my bed, its tottering towers looming ever taller, always on the verge of collapsing onto oblivious sleepers. Simon Sebag Montefiore: By the Book 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z They find themselves, freezing and unsteady, tottering on a bunny hill. Review: ‘Forever’ Is a Thrilling Story of Boring Love 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z But if normalcy is the norm, how can a young girl stricken with polio and tottering on a pair of crutches ever fit in? Aliens Among Us 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Her typically precarious constructions – be they the tottering boat or maquettes where tiny dwellings perch on cardboard precipices – are bittersweet reminders of the frailty of things. Artist of the week 150: Emily Speed 2011-08-11T15:26:52Z Select book from tottering stacks; scrutinise jacket; decide is potentially interesting; find pencil; begin reading. Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z That relationship, which ended with Ms. Foss returning to her husband amid signs that Gould’s mental stability was tottering, became being one of the focal points of “Genius Within.” Film: Seeking the Ordinary in the Eccentric 2010-09-03T15:14:00Z Subsequent descriptions of England as a “tottering state” and “reeling world” have never sounded more apt. Review: A Richard III Who Steps Straight Out of the Land of Id 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Instead of adding another piece of commentary onto this tottering Jenga pile, we thought it would be nice to simply celebrate hilarious women. 10 funniest women writers on the Internet 2011-05-12T14:38:00Z The extraordinary lives of the Soongs were made possible by a confluence of globalization, modernization and Western penetration of an ancient, tottering empire. The Famous, Feuding Siblings Who Helped Shape Modern China 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z His favoured materials are MDF, cardboard, photos and charity shop finds, brought together in tottering, risky constructions. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-08T00:06:27Z But tottering oldsters aren’t the only vulnerable people in the world. My Mother and Her Scammer 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z But he brushed off the Captain’s jacket and straightened his hair, sometimes tottering on his feet as he nervously used one leg to scratch an itch on the other. Music Review: ‘Wozzeck,’ by Philharmonia Orchestra, at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-11-20T23:07:31Z Plenty of small media start-ups these days believe they can deliver the final blow to the tottering neoliberal order. Two Religious Conservatives and a Marxist Walk Into a Journal 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z McAvoy stays absolutely true to Lloyd's concept by offering us a Macbeth who is almost brutally physical: the kind of "strong man" who seizes power in a tottering realm. Macbeth – review 2013-02-24T16:01:01Z The beauty, the lusciousness, the humor and playfulness, the nuance are all here ... the movement of the heron in flight, of fish in the water, the tottering old aunties. Hayao Miyazaki's ‘The Boy and the Heron’ makes clear the world is a fragile place 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z A complex of 13 high-rises by the sea was pounded to dust near Gaza City’s al-Shati refugee camp, leaving only a few tottering bits of the facade, according to the photos by Maxar Technologies. Israel strikes the outskirts of Gaza City during a second ground raid in as many days 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z A complex of 13 high-rises by the sea was pounded to dust near Gaza City’s al-Shati refugee camp, leaving only a few tottering bits of facade. Israel strikes outskirts of Gaza City during second ground raid in as many days 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z A June study said the country's current energy provision was "critically unhealthy and tottering towards a power crisis". Ghana power crisis: Limited gas supply triggers nationwide power outage 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z It is heavily financed by the country’s notoriously opaque $2.9 trillion trust industry, which also appears to be tottering. How do we manage China’s decline? | Bret Stephens 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z It’s a frightening move and a further blow to our already tottering system of democracy. Column: Lawmakers in states are handcuffing voters and ignoring election results 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Syria’s rehabilitation could unlock billions of dollars in reconstruction projects and other investments for its tottering economy, further propping up Mr. al-Assad. Arab League Votes to Readmit Syria, Ending a Nearly 12-Year Suspension 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z Some squarely blame him for the precarious state of the country — a nuclear-armed nation of 220 million with tottering institutions, fractious politics, a crumbling economy and empowered religious extremism. Musharraf’s Legacy: A Conflicted Pakistan and a Bristling Military 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Old empires were tottering, and world powers were vying for position. Review | How an American teacher became a symbol of Iran’s democratic dreams 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The naturalist, who often loathed sea voyages, at one point wrote about himself as “not unlike a newly hatched bird, tottering on feeble legs.” Audubon’s writings on ocean voyages and seabirds complicate his legacy 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent Egypt’s financial house of cards tottering. A New Capital Worthy of the Pharaohs Rises in Egypt, but at What Price? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z It is almost certain that the Biden White House would intervene to prevent a nationwide rail strike, which would be a body blow to the nation's tottering supply chain and shaky economy. On strike for a better world: Labor conflict is coming — and the ruling class will fight back hard 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z Suddenly, he was on his feet, tottering between quakes of turbulence to Wyatt Brown, a graduate student about a third of the way up the cabin. The Hidden Toll of Wildfires 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z But Gorbachev did not aim to make the Soviet Union into a Western country so much as to repair a system tottering toward stagnation. Perspective | Why Gorbachev’s death feels like it’s part of an alternate history 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z As for the tottering bees, the researchers found that the insecticides in question undeniably made it more difficult for them to maintain a straight path. Bee genocide may have been caused by insecticides that make bees unable to walk in a straight line 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z In Africa, Wagner began to advise tottering dictators, run social media disinformation campaigns and deploy teams of fake election monitors, according to Western officials, experts and United Nations investigators. Putin’s Shadow Soldiers: How the Wagner Group Is Expanding in Africa 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Thou art the old man tottering on his staff: Once born thou comest to be, thy face turned every way! World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z An embargo would threaten the very lifeline of the country’s already tottering economy. Why Western sanctions aren't hitting Russia where it would hurt the most: Oil and gas 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Most days I’d walk down Shattuck Avenue to the library, where I’d borrow as many books as I could carry, then head back to my room and leave the books in tottering piles, unread. Watching This Movie Taught Me It Was OK to Fail 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z In the afternoon Mr. Kaboré’s Twitter account published a message in which he urged people to stand fast behind their tottering democracy. Military Takes Power in West African Nation of Burkina Faso 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Libor was once “on top of the world,” he said, but became a “disreputable, tottering old geezer at the end.” Libor, long the most important number in finance, dies at 52 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z They’re the fans of Alabama football, and here they trickle and then gush into yet another championship city, a city icy enough that Saturday saw hapless souls here and there tottering on sidewalks. What’s it like being an Alabama fan? Lots of titles and some angst in all those big games. 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z The violence that unfolded involved an Indian Independence hero, a future British monarch, and a tottering Ottoman sultan. Viewpoint: When Hindus and Muslims joined hands to riot 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z He approached the pope with tottering steps at the start of the audience in the large Paul VI hall. Persistent boy steals show at papal audience 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z That trade appears to be tottering now, as worries over slowing growth send yields tumbling to their lowest level in more than four months. Analysis: Falling U.S. bond yields may signal death knell for 'reflation' stock trade 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Yet Newsom is showing more concern for a relatively small group of prosperous Central Valley farmers than he is for the tottering delta’s human and animal constituents. Op-Ed: Newsom promises while the delta dies 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Seconds later, Maliah reappeared, tottering down the stairs armed with her father’s freshly cleaned clothes and her sister’s pants. Treehouse teaching and laundry art: Educators find creative ways to reach kids 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z He seemed especially bemused by campaign ads suggesting the country would erupt in violence under a Biden presidency, as the forces of chaos and anarchy overwhelmed tottering police forces. Analysis | Joe Biden takes a non-virtual moment to muse on his basement, apocalyptic ads and being Trump’s ‘antithesis’ 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z “The bankruptcy of Cirque de Soleil highlights the fact that the show biz and tourism sector will continue to suffer. The economy is still barely tottering,” she said. Safe-haven currencies on defensive, sterling soft on spending plan 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Molina, tottering across the clean lines of David Meyer’s beige set, crumples before our eyes into a state of confounded helplessness. Review: Alfred Molina, like Lear with dementia, thunders in 'The Father' at Pasadena Playhouse 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z A lawyer and league official before he was named commissioner in 1984, he stabilized a league that was tottering with its fan base shrinking and many of its teams losing money. David Stern, commissioner who built NBA into global sports phenomenon, dies at 77 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z “Iran’s aggression is growing, but its empire is tottering,” Mr. Netanyahu said. Netanyahu and Pompeo Seek Heightened Pressure on Iran in Wake of Violent Protests 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z "She was teetering and tottering and learning to balance and I just wanted to see what would happen. But we're still good pals." Robo-dog creator learned by knocking down toddler 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z These pterosaurs were acting like Jurassic flamingos, tottering around and sifting out little morsels from the shallows. Sifting through the Pterosaur Menu 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z The story’s multiple New York locations all emerge from set designer Stephen Gifford’s clever evocation of Bialystock’s office, which is hemmed in by tottering towers of metal file cabinets, stuffed to bursting with paper. Review: Small theaters think big with ‘Ragtime’ at the Chance and ‘The Producers’ at Celebration 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z “As we’ve learned from interest rates, zero is a psychological barrier, not a real one. The fund industry is tottering on that barrier right now. Negative fees are coming.” A Price War Has Driven Fund Fees to Zero. They May Be Set to Drop Further. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The shocking footage showed cars on top of other cars -- with some vehicles tottering over the side of the guardrail. SEE IT: Cars atop other cars in huge rush-hour smashup in Beijing 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z But 40 percent of Egypt’s 98 million people live in neighborhoods more like the one they were sitting in, dust-blown locales with broken roads and tottering, often illegally constructed, buildings. What to Do About Cairo’s ‘Uncivilized’ Buildings? President Orders Epic Paint Job 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Scarcely had he offered this brief reply when I saw Experience approaching, and the columns of the portico of hypotheses began tottering, its vaults sagging and its floor opening under our feet. How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z What if, having received the mandate, Netanyahu were positioned to form an alliance with a centrist party, like the tottering Gesher, making sweeping concessions to it? Benjamin Netanyahu Finally Faces a Real Challenger in Benny Gantz—If the Opposition Can Unite Behind Him 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Had the old lady lost her marbles with grief, tottering around this shrine with her virtual pets? A young journalist, an old lady, and a vintage e-pet reunion 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z From someone’s eyes or tottering movement, Ms. Goodson could tell if a patient was intoxicated — and having people lie to her was disheartening. Her Addictions Made Her a Great Fit for the Job 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z In this sparkling scholarly treatise, historian Pamela Long reveals how tottering infrastructure, ancient ruins and the flood-prone river Tiber were tamed by four successive popes with bold plans for the urban fabric. Big oil in the dock, the influenza trail, and insects as icons: Books in brief 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The men’s rouge is a garish blotch, and their tottering wigs sprout like private shrubberies. Glamour, Wit, and Cunning in “The Favourite” 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z So, when the crisis struck and many sources of short-term bank funding dried up, the European banks were left tottering. The Real Cost of the 2008 Financial Crisis 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The story told in the People’s Republic of China is of Britain preying with its warships on an innocent, tottering China with the aim of facilitating Britain’s opium trade. Review | What a previous trade war with China might teach us 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z “Igor, come here I’d like to have a word with you,” howled a woman, playing the disappointed wife, tottering down the street in heels. Blood, sweat and beers: Russia down but proud after World Cup exit 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z The people had already started: I saw young men clambering over tottering concrete, filling a donkey cart with stones. A suicide in Gaza 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z “Do you have any doubt that states that are tottering on the edge of insolvency and municipalities which may be in even worse position have a strong incentive to grab everything they possibly can?” Internet sales taxes divide Supreme Court justices 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z A woman climbed onto a wooden barricade to snap photos of people tottering by on stilts. Washington celebrates a day for marching and remembering 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z FirstEnergy’s fleet of coal and nuclear plants filed for bankruptcy this weekend after tottering for months. Trump Faces Test on Coal With FirstEnergy Appeal 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z Demolishing the tottering house on the 300-square-metre plot would be expensive—and pointless, since she cannot dispose of the land at any price. A startling amount of land in Japan has no official owner 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Californian Republicans running for Congress in November’s midterm elections however are expected to steer clear of the president to avoid further alienating voters in tottering GOP redoubts. Trump in California: first official visit met with protests and scorn 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z And as the revelations mounted, one on top of another like a tottering tower, Israelis expressed increasing doubt about Mr. Netanyahu’s ability to maintain his grip on power. Top Aide to Netanyahu Turns State Witness as Graft Cases Multiply 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z There are few old patriarchs tottering down from the ranch house to quarterback the process, from picking to pressing to the first prospecting sip. For this start-up, the secret to selling wine online is making it yourself 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z It is tottering on the brink of war that probably won’t become a world war but will certainly destroy North Korea. Perspective | The Olympics could help solve the Korean crisis — if South Korea allows it 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z Only when Praljak, tottering, his eyes glazed, slumped to his seat and announced “I have taken poison” did the judges react. Security clampdown at The Hague amid fears of further suicides 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Stewart, 55, set out on crutches, tottering out of his mobile home and down a metal ramp he’d laid when stairs became too much. 10,000 people died waiting for a disability decision in the past year. Will he be next? 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z Steadying a tottering financial system is never a graceful exercise, as American and European authorities discovered after the financial crisis. India recapitalises its state-owned banks 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z The island’s infrastructure and finances were already tottering before the hurricane, but Trump’s early and repeated references to that fact struck some as insensitive. Islanders, lawmakers decry Trump's threatened pullback of federal help for battered Puerto Rico 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z But despair deepens when the work slows or even stops, when rain or an aftershock threatens the stability of the tottering pile, and as day after day passes without their loved ones emerging. Hope of finding earthquake survivors In Mexico City dwindles 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z As the manufacturing council fell apart, another presidential advisory group was also tottering. The Moral Voice of Corporate America 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z “I’m fine, fine,” she said, tottering away without a glance back. Support for a Stranger 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Coming down a rise in the rolling farmland here, Sara Lee put on the brakes of her bicycle and stooped to pick up a box turtle slowly tottering across the asphalt. Finding peace in nature after war 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z OZORA, Mo. — Coming down a rise in the rolling farmland here, Sara Lee put on the brakes and stooped to pick up a box turtle slowly tottering across the asphalt. Finding Some Peace After War 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z The Maduro regime is already tottering, struggling to meet its financial obligations, feed its people and pay its oil workers, soldiers and police officers. Wider U.S. Sanctions on Venezuela Risk Biting Both Countries 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z As we noted earlier this month, many of the individual exchanges are tottering. Editorials from around New England 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Once and likely future pretender to the Tory crown whose denials of interest in Mrs May’s tottering throne are strangely disbelieved by everyone. Andrew Rawnsley’s A to Z of Brexit 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z IN 2008, as banks cracked on both sides of the Atlantic, Britain’s government prepared to shore up tottering lenders. Barclays and four former executives are charged with fraud 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The Senate bill, like the House measure, would provide billions of dollars to states to help stabilize insurance markets, which Republicans say are tottering in many states. G.O.P. Rift Over Medicaid and Opioids Imperils Senate Health Bill 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z When I finish a book, I pick up whatever looks most appealing from the tottering piles at hand. What your favorite writers are reading this summer 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z “The trend we’re seeing now is for much longer distances and more adventurous travel,” said the designer, in between hugs from the tottering wives of his clients. Party on the helipad! My day sipping champagne with the superyacht set 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Certainly, taxpayers won’t be protected by this legislation, which will put an additional $826 million in tax money annually to bolster the tottering pension system, facing an unfunded liability of $24 billion. South Carolina editorial roundup 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Airlines needlessly demean customers, who are gouged for fees to goose the margins of tottering industry monoliths like United. Perspective | Our economy is a hellscape for consumers. The United flier is the latest victim. 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z The girl stands on her own, tottering slightly to the left. “Herman Melville, Volume I” 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z This article will look at two main examples: an unambiguously failed state, South Sudan, and a state tottering on the brink, Afghanistan. Why states fail and how to rebuild them 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Creditors are asking the government to allow the auction of delinquent debtors’ properties to prop up the country’s tottering banks. Italy, Hillary Clinton, Turkey: Your Monday Briefing 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z “The most important thing to do is not to pile up scientific reports until they reach a tottering pile of about eight feet, where they’ll tip over and crush somebody,” Hayhoe continued. To avoid the worst climate impacts, Obama tells Leo DiCaprio, ‘We’re really in a race against time’ 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Mr Primus notes that with the court tottering on an ideological divide, it takes only one newcomer to push it left or right. About to tilt 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The Assad regime, which was tottering a year ago, will be entrenched and its opposition dealt a powerful blow. Whether or not the Syrian cease-fire sticks, Putin wins 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Don’t rule it out after such a solid brick as Britain has been removed from its tottering wall. The post-Brexit landscape: who can keep it all from falling apart? 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, conditions in tottering Iraq and the former nation of Syria grow ever murkier, more chaotic, and less amenable by the week to any solution American officials might care for. We’ll be fighting forever: America just can’t kick its addiction to war 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z The main sticking points are a demanded overhaul of Greece's tottering pension system, where the left-led government insists it will not cut current pensions, tax reforms and protection for people who can't repay bank loans. Greek officials and representatives of the country's bailout creditors will have another go at overcoming disagreements on austerity measures, after all-night talks failed to produce a breakthrough 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z But then, as now, they knew that their power was tottering. This war is for America’s soul: Donald Trump, Paul Ryan and how wealthy white elites protect themselves 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z All those Gainsborough portraits of tottering towers of grey on clearly youthful women. Grey is great: why hair is the last bastion of vanity | Anne Perkins 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z There are no signs, either, that the regime is tottering. Carrots or sticks to take on North Korea? - BBC News 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Her emerald scarf is nice with the satin dress she wears on holidays, tottering on gold heels as she walks across the asphalt parking lot of her Wichita mosque. The Education of Maira Salim 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Chelsea’s players have looked enervated, disgruntled, even openly insubordinate ever since, tottering their way to nine Premier League defeats in 16 games, culminating in a thrillingly hapless 2-1 defeat at Leicester on Monday night. Adeus, José – a fittingly operatic departure for the game's first celebrity manager 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Despite the current focus on Waer, the core of Homs remains the Old City, where an eerie silence prevails, broken occasionally by the sound of workmen patching a crumbling wall or reinforcing tottering buildings. Syrian rebels in the historic city of Homs are leaving behind a panorama of destruction 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z But when the EU’s signature projects, from the euro to Schengen, are tottering, they are hardly minded to let an irascible Britain weaken the union’s foundations yet further. Battling with Britain 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z It starts with Saudi Arabia, whose tottering monarchy made a devil’s bargain with local Wahhabi clerics decades ago. The 2016 Candidates Need Thoughtful Strategies on ISIS—Soon 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z That would be Saudi Arabia, whose tottering monarchy made a devil’s bargain with the Wahhabis decades ago. The Democratic Debate: Incoherent on ISIS 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z A few yards away, at another tottering table, Adnan Sheikh Mohammad clicked shut his flip-phone and smiled broadly, clapping his cousin, Sami, on the shoulder. Rough Seas and Falling Temperatures Fail to Stop Flow of Refugees 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Teeter-totters teetering and tottering all in a big row, but they can't all bottom out on the same side at the same time. Verge Fiction: An excerpt from Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z IN THE tumult and uncertainty that marked Russia after the Soviet Union imploded, when the state was weak and many institutions tottering, a vital lifeline was extended from the West. Vladimir Putin is suffocating his own nation 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z She does sleep over, one night, and is mortified at waking up on Staten Island and tottering home in a tiny gold skirt and scarlet heels. Amy Schumer Comes Clean in “Trainwreck” 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Greeks were already chafing this week under capital controls imposed by Tsipras’ government in order to prevent a run on the country’s tottering financial system. Greeks vote on what answer to give international lenders: yes or no 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Photograph: Rex Shutterstock Celebrities wore them, reality stars wore them, rich women tottering down the Kings Road wore them. The day I threw out my Juicy Couture tracksuit 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z It is largely thanks to their opposition that the commission’s plan, which needs majority approval, is tottering, despite backing from Germany, France and Italy. A walk down solidarity street 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z He was credited with helping to salvage a tottering fertilizer plant in Hebei Province and to transform it into the Haomen Group, a state-owned beer company listed as one of China’s 500 most profitable enterprises. China Hunts Fugitives Accused of Corruption, Many in U.S. 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Playing the game is fun and engaging, with a cartoon penguin named JiJi tottering across the screen to celebrate each solution. How video games could make our kids smarter and learning more engaging 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z For reasons that seem sadly frivolous today, all of Europe’s major powers, including the Ottoman Empire—the tottering “Sick Man of Europe”—went to war in 1914. All Quiet on the Dardanelles: Century Later Brave Gallipoli Dead Remind Us Of The Stupidity Of War 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The reforms list also pledged to reduce early retirements to cut the burden on the country's tottering pension system but sought to avoid any tax hikes in the key tourism sector. Greek Reforms List Proposes Bad Bank, Lowers Asset Sales Target 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z “In order for this to become a true holiday village, there is still work to be done,” he said, pointing to a tottering wooden fence near a chicken coop held up by wire and weeds. For Rent: A Hungarian Village, and a Mayoral Title 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z In a tottering house a few blocks away, Lyuba Sklyarova lay on a mattress on the floor beneath layers of soiled blankets. In Eastern Ukraine, Desperation and Destruction in a Contested City 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z He followed a series of speakers who said that the U.S. economy and political establishment were tottering and that the best response might be for states, counties or even individuals to break away. Rand Paul’s daddy issues begin to emerge as the Kentucky senator preps for White House bid 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Then he wandered out into the night, and tottering, hailed a cab. After Saturday Night, a Bit of Old New York Can Still Be Found 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z One thing is certain: If America and Europe back down on sanctions without getting anything other than a tottering ceasefire from Vladimir Putin, all is lost. As Russia Intimidates Europe, Obama Fiddles On Energy Policy 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z “All books about all revolutions begin with a chapter that describes the decay of tottering authority or the misery and sufferings of people,” wrote Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski in Shah of Shahs. Ferguson’s black community must not be given the same ‘justice’ as Trayvon Martin 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z The private sector is tottering sluggishly out of the recession while Wall Street and high-income people are doing very well. Rebuilding America, one bridge at a time The tottering monument to Action Park’s infamy is its most poorly designed attraction, the Cannonball Loop. The Perfect Amusement Park: Thrills, Chills, Spills and the Occasional Death Wheeler was talking about other buyers who have repaired the houses and rented them out, creating an income stream while adding a layer of stability to tottering sections of the city. The Post-Post-Apocalyptic Detroit 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z “If Carrie Bradshaw were still tottering around New York,” we asked, “where would the Sex And The City protagonist meet her girlfriends for a nosh and some gossip?” RIP Crumbs: Cupcake Chain's Closure Is Warning Shot For 'One-Item Wonders' 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z The Kurds consider Kirkuk – just outside their autonomous zone – their historic capital; its capture makes it more tempting for the Kurds to go it alone rather than sticking with an unpopular and tottering regime. John Kerry urges Kurdish leaders to back Iraqi government 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Unusually, this is a trend that appeals to surfers, the sun-sensitive and those tottering around in heels in the beach bar alike. Long sleeves on bikinis: summer 2014's most unexpected trend 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Or shoes, because another sign of this excessive arrogance on the field is that he is tottering round on 'salto alto' - high heels, like some preening, self-obsessed vaudeville star. The language of Brazilian football 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z The poor fellow was apologizing all over himself but was overwhelmed by the torrent of abuse and still tottering around the car. Pizza Man Meets Subway Terror 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Even Hollywood is tottering, as film and TV producers are lured away by tax bribes in other states. Los Angeles: Clipped wings 2014-04-16T14:55:18Z I feel a little like my 21-month-old son, tottering around the house in exploration mode, smacking into things and falling down, trying to make sense of the world with my babbling proto-linguistic toddler-speak. Dark Souls 2′s De-Spawns Are Either Game-Breaking Godawful or Inspired Genius 2014-03-31T19:40:23Z Nearly 100,000 annual members later, bike share in New York City remains a rolling contradiction — a runaway success tottering beneath the weight of its own riders. As Citi Bike Approaches Anniversary, Worries Abound 2014-03-26T18:28:49Z It is difficult to overwrite the image of him tottering on the runway and pushing away an official before trotting toward the bar, which was under no threat of being cleared. Track and field: High-Jump Stars Aim for a Venerable Record 2014-03-06T19:07:43Z He tried to maintain his balance, but the first good jolt sent him tottering, pizza-box-first, into a woman standing near the door. Pizza Man Meets Subway Terror 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z But the alternative, a region tottering sine die on the brink of catastrophe, may be worse. Should Crimea be leased to Russia? 2014-03-06T09:11:14Z She served five years during a rocky time when banks were tottering and interest rates were skyrocketing. Muriel Siebert, First Woman to Own a Seat on Wall St., Dies at 80 2013-08-25T22:34:01Z The two bankers are also heard laughing and joking at a time when the bank was tottering on the brink of destruction. Irish bankers 'hoodwinked' government over bailout, secret recordings show 2013-06-24T10:11:40Z While snooker's top-ranked players aren't exactly tottering around the table at this year's World Championship on walking frames, the average age of the 16 seeded players is 32. The Crucible's White knight 2013-04-22T06:48:01Z If one route embodies the tottering arithmetic of the franchise system, it is the east coast mainline. Nationalised rail is shunted into sidings as coalition tries to make sums add up on east coast line 2013-03-31T00:01:04Z They were forever tottering on the edge of a cliff. Atlético Madrid's facelift is complete. It's time to take them seriously 2013-01-21T15:30:47Z Other major European states, France and Germany in particular, see a new federal Europe with enhanced powers of fiscal oversight as essential to the long-term survival of the tottering euro. Cameron to Outline a Recast European Role for Britain 2013-01-17T01:49:01Z Today’s Egypt is beleaguered from a tumultuous transition and jaded from the tottering pace of change. No Celebration 2012-12-23T15:48:00Z Root was unbeaten on 31 at the close, having entered the fray on 119 for four when England's innings was tottering as ominously as the Christmas Jenga. Root and Prior dig in as tourists toil in spinners' stranglehold 2012-12-13T13:06:22Z Americans are drowning in unhealthy food and tottering under the obesity that that food - and lack of exercise - creates. Obesity rates fall in Philadelphia 2012-12-12T16:58:08Z Both the US and Britain have sent troops to Jordan in recent months to bolster the tottering regime and increase leverage in the Syrian civil war. The Gulf protection racket is corrupt and dangerous folly 2012-11-06T22:20:01Z The $275 million man lives for moments like the one Wednesday night, when the game and his team's season were tottering on a high wire between success and setback. A-Rod's October brings Snub Seen 'Round the World 2012-10-11T22:27:08Z The whole new edifice of bidding for rail franchises is tottering. This railway fiasco reveals all that's wrong with the Tories 2012-10-06T23:03:06Z Morgan Chase billions; leveraged buyouts and mortgage-backed securities and derivatives and stimulus packages, Bain Capital and the tottering euro and the Greek bailout. Opinion: Money, Money, Money. Can we talk about something else? 2012-09-15T19:45:13Z Michael Rosenberg of SI.com found another way to tiptoe around the dilemma of propping up a tottering national icon. Americans reluctant to crucify Lance Armstrong, a saint on two wheels 2012-08-25T19:00:01Z Ms. Brown tried to walk forward to greet him, but she started tottering. City Room: When Timothy Dolan Hugged Helen Gurley Brown 2012-08-14T21:58:57Z Ignominy on Two Wheels The secret can be traced to a few tottering rides in Lower Manhattan, with a father and his boy and the afternoons that eventually dissolved their patience. A Reporter Learns to Ride a Bicycle as an Adult 2012-08-10T13:49:47Z The apparent fickleness of global corporations makes clear what a tightrope the government is walking as it tries to stabilise a tottering economy. Will the Olympics get the economy growing again? Don't bank on itWill the Olympics get the economy growing again? Don't bank on it 2012-07-28T23:06:40Z Domestically, recent Supreme Court rulings greatly enhance the already enormous political power of corporations and the super-rich, striking further blows against the tottering relics of functioning political democracy. Noam Chomsky on post-legal America 2012-07-23T14:37:00Z That said, with the Russian economy tottering and highly dependent on oil prices remaining high, antagonizing the Gulf States — who essentially control the price of oil — could have serious repercussions for Moscow. Washington: Time To Dump Bashar, Moscow 2012-07-18T06:35:39Z There is a girl in high heels tottering along the verge, chatting on her iPhone. The radioactive trees of Chernobyl 2012-07-07T00:30:08Z Cities in California's Central Valley, such as financially tottering Stockton and other western metropolitan areas such as Colorado Springs, Las Vegas and Tucson continue to lag. U.S. recovery varies greatly by state, county, city 2012-06-27T21:32:21Z Alongside Europe's tottering mountain of debt lies a pit of intellectual emptiness. The eurozone's people are like prisoners in Colditz 2012-06-19T19:30:01Z The decision over the weekend to lend Spain $125 billion to shore up its tottering banking system is typical. Op-Ed Columnist: How Not to Solve a Crisis 2012-06-12T01:55:23Z The country's beaches, its sea and its weather remain unaffected by Greece's troubles and although the country's economic and political structure is tottering, its archaeology, of course, also remains intact. Give Greece a chance 2012-06-10T00:35:00Z After all, needs a massive bailout of its tottering banking system, including Santander, so familiar on every British high street, before the Greek election next Sunday. Europe will thrive. But we could be doomed to a life on the fringes 2012-06-09T23:07:14Z Evidence of a state tottering on the edge of complete dysfunction is apparent everywhere in Athens. Op-Ed Contributor: Postcards From Greece 2012-06-07T03:37:17Z The EZ is a tottering `House of Cards`, both in the literal & personality sense. The euro in crisis: Groping towards Grexit 2012-05-15T00:02:08Z He supported his tottering power for many years by the influence of Madame de Montespan. The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z And perhaps he was not really patching up his tottering cottage at all that night. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z He has the whole of the markets in his brain, he knows which of the clients of the bank are prosperous and which are tottering on the brink of bankruptcy. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z The cars are close and the trucks seem even closer, and other cyclists’ hurrying to work can make tottering around the lane on training wheels feel like an imposition. City Room: Soon, a Safe Place for Unsteady Bicyclists 2012-04-19T18:42:55Z He, who has firmly established the tottering earth and arrested the quivering mountains; he who has fixed the extent of the wide-stretching atmosphere, and who has propped up the sky,—O man, it is Indra! The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Well, it is only a little pull that is needed to bring down a great weight when it is tottering and ready to fall. I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success 2012-04-18T02:00:11.437Z It had been what he had seen through the gap—the chimney-stack all tottering, hooped out on one side like a barrel.... Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z They builded better than they knew, and to them rather than to the Innocents and the de Montforts did the hierarchy owe the restoration of the tottering edifice. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z The Elder Yea, strengthen the knees of the tottering. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z Cannot even tottering age, and helpless infancy, arrest the fell purpose? A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z The tottering pillars of the women's choir have been replaced in the perpendicular, and the arches which they sustain are now shored up and strengthened. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z I'm young and the head of a house that people knew was tottering when I took control. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z Yet Innocent’s doubts were removed by a dream in which he saw the Lateran Basilica tottering and ready to fall, and a man in whom he recognized the humble Dominic supporting it on his shoulders. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z His gait was a waddling, tottering progress, groping with his hands as he went, and often falling at the slightest impediment. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z Old women, haggard and wrinkled, come tottering along with their scaldini of coals, drop down on their knees to pray, and, as you pass, interpolate in their prayers a parenthesis of begging. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z He saw his world tottering, the scum and rabble overwhelming it, everything which he had loved, and in which he had lived, passing; he saw death waiting for him seven steps below, and he smiled. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z The house was obviously tottering; I did not think it would stand until I got control. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z Though St. Bernard was sick, the perilous condition of the tottering establishment aroused all his zeal, and he unflinchingly undertook the mission. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Overcome with mingled emotions, Miranda, while she spoke, swayed visibly to and fro, and as if to support her, Eudæmon's arms fell on either side of her tottering figure. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z Few things are more touching than the passionate joy with which, in the reign of Nero, Seneca clung to it as the one refuge for the oppressed, the last bulwark of the tottering mind. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Do you think that now, Monsieur, when, after all these years, vengeance is in our hand and our persecutors are tottering, we will sit still and see them set up again? The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z But you turned the trick, all right, and saved my tottering reason,” he added, jovially. Bert Wilson, Wireless Operator 2012-03-27T02:00:19.467Z And, unless we believe in supernatural revelation, we must admit that no religious tenets will ever suffice to prop up a tottering society. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 2012-03-26T02:00:37.300Z The warriors rushed together to defend the tottering tower and to repel the fierce assault. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z But if it begins to shake my mind, if it destroys its faculties one by one, if it leaves me not life but breath, I will depart from the putrid or tottering edifice. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z A mother stretches out her arms to receive her babe taking its first tottering steps, to welcome her prodigal, to protect those in danger, to help in every time of need. Ortus Christi Meditations for Advent 2012-03-23T02:00:31.917Z 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. When Love Calls 2012-03-22T02:00:36.883Z Fernando rose slowly to his feet, drew his long knife, and, tottering from weakness, approached the German spy. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z His white face, lit by a vast excitement, bid them a tremendous farewell, and he departed through the sunlight, with his buoyant walk, buoyant almost to the tottering pitch. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z My present assurance, and this chair's stability, is, I hope, as happy a sign of my future prosperity as its tottering proved unfortunate to the thief Li-Kong. The War Tiger Or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China 2012-03-18T02:00:17.620Z Otherwise, prolonged and systematic muscular exercise may remove the tottering walk. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z We air--but with the caution due to convalescents, or those of tender years--our shaky, tottering French, and get English answers. When Love Calls 2012-03-22T02:00:36.883Z August brought it a word or two; September stood it, upright and exultant, with its back to the wall; and October sent it tottering and trilling into its mother's arms. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z Still tottering, he raised himself up, took his little daughter by the hand, and set himself to climbing the steep slope that led to the terrace. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z But if I lay hid, and took time for my ally, and being here while he stood still,--though tottering,--waited until he fell, what of my honour then? Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z I tell you, you are trembling on the edge, you are tottering! Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z Hasty steps were descending the short stone stairway which led to the gallery, and then Janet M'Kissock came tottering forth across the floor from the foot of it. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z He could see he was on the verge of physical collapse, and he wondered if his mind was not tottering too; his pertinacity had something weird and astonishing in it. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z Within, the building rose, tinted a faint pink and terraced with verandas supported by tottering wooden pillars, about a quadrangular patio, and it was characteristic that it was more or less ruinous. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z By the time the lieutenant's startled wits and eyes were back, the two were already tottering on the edge, looking in the gloom like one dark form. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z There was none to dispute his authority, unless you were to regard the tottering Ogdensburgh & Lake Champlain as a real competitor. The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad 2012-03-02T03:00:07.920Z It sounded as if a building had collapsed against other tottering structures, tumbling them all into a mass of ruins. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z A violent shivering fit seized him; he entered the porch of the inn with tottering steps. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z But in the political tumult that surrounded Yemen’s former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, many Yemeni troops in the past year abandoned their posts or were summoned to Sana to help support the tottering government. U.S. Teaming With Yemen?s New Government to Combat Al Qaeda 2012-02-27T00:42:39Z He could not turn his gaze from a knot of ruffians, who were gathered under one of the tottering gables on the farther side of the street. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z During the year 1027, while Canute was absent in Rome or busied with North British affairs, his emissaries were at work in Norway still further undermining the tottering loyalty of the Norwegian chiefs. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z Oxnam had not gone far up stream when a haggard figure emerged tottering from the reeds, and falling on his knees, burst into tears and thanked God that help had come. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z The principle of authority seemed to be tottering to its fall. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z Then Tone and the United Irishmen must be stamped beneath the heel, and it would be odd indeed if they did not drag their tottering country in their downfall. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z White's grandfather, his father, he himself had lived and thriven by the system which he saw tottering to its fall. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z Phil was awake and sensible; had risen on his tottering feet, was swaying from side to side as he clung to his young master. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z An hour or two passed before Dennis ventured once more to try his tottering legs. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z Some of those jurymen were threatened by suborned fellow-jurors--their tottering consciences deadened for awhile by drink; but they have woke to remorse in time. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z Even the tottering old domestics had gone forth to act as piqueurs. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z Brereton retorted, with so strange a look that for the first time Vaughan was sure that his mind was tottering. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z She yearned over her son and the tottering family. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z They stood watching the woman, who had muttered something doubtless intended for thanks and was tottering slowly down the street. The Lucky Piece A Tale of the North Woods 2012-02-13T03:00:18.927Z It was refreshing to see the handsome faces, erect carriage, and firm, elastic walk of these 193 Kurdish women after the tottering gait of the shrouded, formless bundles which pass for Persian women. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z He danced round her fears with elfin gambols, till she felt her frail wits tottering; and then, grown of a sudden serious, he would relate what he called facts, which only increased her terrors. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z With tottering steps, they searched for the spring of Eternal Youth. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z Many of the estates also suffered great devastations; and some of the inhabitants left their tottering houses, and took shelter beneath sheds and outhouses. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z Whilst he so lamented, there came tottering towards him a gray-haired man; endeavouring to get down the rocks; and seeming, at every step, to fear that he should stumble into the abyss. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z Up this he made his tottering way, slowly; conserving his strength as best he could. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z I wish to remain near my father, who is infirm and rather tottering; and I shall settle myself in Boston for the next four or five months. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z She could see its dripping gunwale contending with the waves, the oil-skinned sailors tottering upon its deck. Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z Then, tottering into the office, with his arm in a sling and a patch over his left eye, came the gallant Colonel. The Unpublishable Memoirs 2012-02-03T03:00:18.447Z The Spaniard stared at his officer stupidly, tottering upon his limbs. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z Bentham made no longer any resistance; he let them do with him as they were pleased; and he stood tottering and swaying. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z For, closely following, tottering feebly, came the Duchess Elsa and her train of ladies. Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German 2012-01-25T03:00:33.660Z The New American Cyclopedia tells us, "Apollonius labored for the purity of Paganism, and to sustain its tottering edifice against the assaults of the Christians." The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z He rushed to the stairs, and with tottering footsteps descended to the library below. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z He crossed the road compassionately with the tottering old grandmother, giving her his helping hand over the kerbstone, and following her with bated breath into the close little sick-room. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z The poor devils of "drivers," boys or men, who tramped along the canal bank behind each tottering gang, were little better off than their beasts. A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River 2012-01-11T03:00:29.487Z He had pinned all his tottering faith absolutely on that single frail support; and now the support had given way irretrievably beneath him, and blank atheism, nihilism, utter nothingness, stared him desperately in the face. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z The singular and senseless defense of your now tottering system we have known to be attempted by members of your order, by the self-complacent soliloquy "Christianity, whether divine or human, is good enough for me." The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z Thus in the east—once Asia's queen— Palmyra's tottering towers are seen; While through her streets the serpent feeds, Thus she puts on her mourning weeds! The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z The little exertion I made had nearly exhausted my remaining strength, and I was more dead than alive, when the trembling, pale, and tottering guest made her approach in the house of woe. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z So it happened that when the two survivors of the ambuscade came tottering into the camp which they had hoped to reach much sooner, they found the main detachment just leaving. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z It was the pessimistic nightmare of a Lucretian system, translated hastily into terms of Cyril Milliter's own tottering and fading theosophy. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z I do," said an aged black man, who rose up tottering, as he leaned both hands on a wooden staff,—"I do; because the blessed Jesus always talked of mercy. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z Nancy tempts no more, Deep, unrelenting silence reigns; Of all that pleased, that charmed before, The tottering chimney scarce remains! The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z Reason degraded from her tottering throne, And precepts, called divine, observed by none. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z The windows and doors of the old Spanish church, that stood with a crooked cross tottering over its stained stucco walls, was belching fire upon them. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z Wounded soldiers were passing, some with fixed stares, tapping the pavement in front of them with sticks, others tottering along out of weakness or owing to an amputation. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z Then the watching boys saw the unknown tottering on the brink, wildly waving his arms in an endeavor to regain his balance. Frank Merriwell's Alarm Doing His Best 2011-12-30T03:00:28.567Z Well, he was tottering when I knew him. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Roberts hailed her, and after a brief explanation, she ascended the steps with tottering but hasty feet, to embrace her son. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z These events shook the whole Persian empire; Babylon and other subject states rose in revolt, and to the Jews it seemed that Persia was tottering and that the Messianic era was nigh. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z In less than two weeks I was on my legs again, tottering indeed, but useful, and my first question asked of the officer who spoke English was— "Can I get away from Port Arthur?" In the Yellow Sea 2011-12-26T03:00:10.083Z They moved slowly, and behind them walked with tottering steps a man of great age with a vast white beard, supporting himself with a long stick. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z Before any one had time to think, Alfred was on his feet again, tottering towards the door. A Bride from the Bush 2011-12-24T03:08:05.053Z We once met an old woman in a country district tottering under the weight of a bucket, which she was labouring to carry up a hill. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z The first service rendered was to restore the tottering Socialist press.... The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z His secret seems to have been bequeathed to no one, and for many years after his death the old, much-abused, forest-devouring system went tottering on. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z The spectator has no sense that these people turned out at church time, raging, leering, tottering, have deteriorated from any average or standard of human seemliness. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z The despotism which was building up on the other side of the Channel in this country was tottering to its fall by the development of the intellect and character of the people. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z The cripple, half-rising, supporting himself by his arms against the table with a nervous movement, his eyes glaring with long-suppressed desire, was alike painful to see, and fear-inspiring, as one whose reason was tottering. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z The captain as he returned saw him standing, smiling, and his legs tottering at the door of the feast hall. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z For the Liberal Government was tottering to its fall, and Lord Salisbury was not wont to overlook the claims of political supporters. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Inside, in a tottering hand, were a few lines scrawled in pencil. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z He assumed a tottering bravado, and as he put his hand to the lever, he smiled crookedly. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z Bertie did as he was bid, feeling very weak and tottering on his feet. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z Everything in the domain of ethic is evolved, changeable, tottering; all things flow, it is true—but all things are also in the stream: to their goal. Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z He introduces into his Lenten Pastoral the history of Uzza, who wanted, with a good object, to support the tottering Ark, and was punished by being burned to death. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z The lobby is filled with tottering elderly people whose wild hair, mismatched clothes and keen gazes bespeak not madness or age but rather a lifetime of challenging convention. The Appraisal: At Westbeth, Artist Tenants Are Reluctant to Leave 2011-11-21T22:58:49Z The sight amused and surprised, but hardly interested her, and she soon went tottering back to the house on the preposterous heels which Mrs. Bradley had, as yet, found no means of tactfully banishing. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z Her reason was already tottering when she was brought face to face with Margaret Wallace on the night of her reception, and was put to such dire confusion. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z He came in, shook off the snow and wiped his boots so as not to track the floor, but he was tottering all the time. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z Then we will hold a family council and I hope I shall recover my senses; I declare I feel as though they were tottering.” Three Little Women A Story for Girls 2011-11-17T03:00:30.707Z The ladies of England have propped up the tottering edifice long enough, and no one whose opinion is worth entertaining will lament the inevitable issue. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z That they ultimately proved fatal to the Umayyads is no matter for surprise; the sorely pressed dynasty was already tottering, its enemies were at its gates. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z It was as if a strong man armed kept watch within a house tottering to its fall. Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:36.223Z When he came up to it, the old devil was weakened from hunger and tottering from side to side and knocking his head against the posts. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z And gradually, among the tottering débris of a life undermined from its youth, one other thought began, mole-like, to delve and creep in the darkness. Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:34.213Z I do not consider them entrancingly picturesque; they form the northern entrances to the Albaicin quarter, which is now a perplexing congeries of squalid houses, formless convents, and churches tottering to their fall. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z My head is so completely giddy from worry and torment, that I am unable to think upon my own affairs; only this I know, that I am in a tottering situation. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z A green tottering bridge, flung from rock to rock, joins his garden to his house, and his side of the bridge is a waterfall. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z Napoleon's troops swarmed over the country and the monarchy itself was clearly tottering to its fall. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z Throughout his school life and his three years at Cambridge, he had never quite let go of Blessington's hand, which had been the first to direct and sustain his tottering attempts at locomotion. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z The king or amir, Kadir, was the puppet of the rival powers which aspired to the possession of his dominions, and was alternately upheld on his tottering throne by one and the other. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z I know, that for the last nine months many sensible people have thought this Minister in a tottering situation; others think he will weather out the storm, which all people agree is preparing for him. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. 2011-11-03T02:00:18.037Z The stranger led me by the old route till we were again close to the tottering cow-house. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z The government of Herrera, with which Mr. Black's arrangement had been made, was tottering. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z Ascending outside by a tottering staircase to the second story, within was not only neatness and comfort, but positive luxury. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z Empty aisle, deserted chancel, tower tottering to your fall, Many a storm since then has beaten on the grey head of your wall! A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats 2011-10-27T02:00:26.373Z Yes! though his tottering limbs seem old, His heart and blood are not yet cold. The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? 2011-10-27T02:00:24.317Z Philip Moses at length arose from his sick bed, but his steps were feeble and tottering. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. III (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:26.667Z She had seen her father crying that day, and the very foundations of all stabilities seemed tottering. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z The huge gates flew open, and with grim smiles, the enfeebled and tottering apostate was welcomed as an accession to the southern ranks. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z The Thrones that have been reversed, have left these Altars naked, unsupported, and tottering. Considerations on Religion and Public Education 2011-10-19T02:00:19.747Z An unusually large number of deserters of all ranks from colonel downward, were also coming in, and they likewise professed to believe that the Confederacy was tottering. A Narrative of Service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry 2011-10-15T02:00:29.757Z Out of familiar things she contrives to draw a magic which sets all our definitions tottering.... Poems 2011-10-14T02:00:29.763Z What we may have to do does not yet appear,--here at least nothing can be done, here are only ruins tottering to their fall. For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. II (of II) A Romance of the Present Time 2011-10-13T02:00:49.420Z Everything else in the building is tottering and unsafe. For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time 2011-10-13T02:00:45.883Z In Spain Leo has upheld the throne that was tottering to a disastrous fall. Leo XIII., the Great Leader 2011-10-12T02:00:51.183Z It is truly to be lamented, that Napoleon had not lived longer; he might, it is true, have caused some disturbance, and hastened the fall of some of the tottering thrones of Europe. Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z The english Government is but in a tottering condition and if Bonaparte succeeds, that Government will break up. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z Can Americans sleep in peace, while the clang of the hammers that are forging their chains are sounding in their ears, and the pillars which support their government are tottering over their heads? Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z The ancient institutions have been cleared away,—that was unavoidable; they had long been tottering to their ruin,—but an adequate substitute for what was taken has not been provided. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z There is in this hamlet of three hundred souls one inn—it is tottering to decay—a pound, a police-station, and a church. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z His frail body is tottering as he descends the hill of life. The Story of a Life 2011-10-11T02:01:02.723Z Now if the Spanish rule was politically weak and tottering at this time, the evidence of this fact was strongly repressed, and financially the country was flourishing. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z The Latins suffered so severely from the victory of Decius Mus, that like rats running from a tottering house, their allies, one by one, fell away from them. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z Sanche had used as a lever on that occasion an iron cross which hung upon the tottering wall. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z The roller is fastened carefully behind a back wheel, and “Hip!” away we go, the horses tearing, tottering, scraping, almost falling. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Some drank kneeling, others standing; Hoym, who had risen tottering, was obliged to lean on the table. The Countess Cosel A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong 2011-10-06T02:00:36.083Z The Ottoman Empire, tottering after the last disastrous Balkan War, was on the point of committing national suicide under the patronage of its bombastic German tutors. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z A shambling step came to his ears, came nearer and nearer; he jumped up in time to meet a tottering figure at the door. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z "But when the building is tottering and rotten?" The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z He raised his clenched hands and made a tottering step toward the king as though he would strike him with his fists. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z Or perhaps, with Western economies tottering, the rest of the world is simply preoccupied with its own money problems. Somalia's Pain: Will We Let 750,000 People Starve? 2011-10-01T15:35:35Z The position of the Centaur is obviously much the stronger, and the bent left knee of the Lapith indicates that he is tottering. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z Half the folks got up and went to the windows and watched her tottering along the road; and then Brother Bazemore called 'em back and made 'em sit down. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z The convict would suck it up like the sole of a boot, and then walk through the barracks swaggering and tottering. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z There were breaches in the massive walls and the great towers were tottering. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z She was lying on the bed when a relay of servants staggered in bearing gaudy piles of the most recent and popular novels, and placed them in tottering profusion upon the adjacent furniture. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z The loose blocks are piled by the inhabitants into tottering walls, which are difficult either to cross or upset with safety. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z Her tottering reason was very slowly and gradually returning to her. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z Used to stepping out for a daily ten-mile walk over mountain paths, free and rhythmic in her flexible cord-and-canvas sandals, she laughed inwardly at these fine ladies, tottering on their high-heeled leather shoes. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z His career was tottering on a hideous brink. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z His mind seemed already tottering under its new and constantly increasing load of responsibility; and he dug away fiercely with his bar, making twice as many holes as he had meant to. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z The tottering wall of rotten rock gives the impression that the whole connection may slither down. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z The Democratic Party in Queens ended Tuesday night exposed as a tottering old dame, her inability to push a loyal — if severely charisma-challenged — son into Congress testament to her infirmities. City Room: Election Reflects New Dynamic in Brooklyn and Queens 2011-09-14T12:40:33Z It would be ample excuse in their eyes—flatter their vanity, as their tottering chief had hinted—if he had himself been deceived by the fabricated securities. The Duke Decides 2011-09-14T02:00:47.307Z The latter was tottering, and her face was livid. My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z "How can I walk?" said Rosy, tottering around when she was finally equipped in her narrow uncomfortable garments. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z With a slow and tottering step, he arose to proceed on his journey to his father's house. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z His additional weight completed the mischief, and the tottering throne gave way with a crash. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z No sooner had the firing commenced than he started from his cot and speedily dressed himself, often tottering as he did so. O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas 2011-09-08T02:00:19.987Z And tottering slightly, he conducted the king to the window. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z Bent and crippled shapes with tottering knees, crooked necks, nerveless arms, quenched eyes, and soulless faces, tottering along like drunkards; a host of miserable, withered skeletons. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z Already, to sustain his tottering credit, his father had been brought to the verge of ruin. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z A powerful neighbor, the lord of Kandahar, an old friend of his father, now came to Shah Rokh's assistance, put his tormentor to death, and once more placed the forlorn prince upon his tottering throne. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z The length of each pace, from heel to heel, is thirty inches; and the recruit is taught to take seventy-five of these steps in a minute, without tottering and in perfect steadfastness. The Young Dragoon Every Day Life of a Soldier 2011-08-31T02:01:26.737Z The youth stood there barefoot, with disordered hair, with naked breast, his shirt and his jacket in shreds, smeared with Swedish blood and his own, tottering, bewildered, but with unquenched fire in his eyes. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z As yet nothing aggressive had been done; but the Republican government was tottering on its Louisiana throne, and appealed for aid. Kitty's Conquest 2011-08-30T02:00:36.270Z If they were credulous and untrustworthy, the edifice built upon their testimony or their faith will be found to be tottering. Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels 2011-08-30T02:00:32.823Z There are, however, many signs that the deity of Jesus is, as an article of faith, tottering from its pedestal in the Broad Church school. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z The Moriscos had destroyed the bridge, and only a few tottering planks remained, by which a venturesome scout might cross if needful. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z The Lauda men seized the wounded officer and held him tottering in the saddle; the little knight pushed on and rode farther against the Swedes, quenching them before him like candles. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z In Spain and Italy, interest rates are rising and the governments are tottering toward a possible debt trap. What's happening to a model healthcare system? 2011-08-24T12:28:00Z It was by this insurrection that the tottering edifice of the military government was finally shaken, instantly leading to its catastrophe. An Introduction to the History of Japan 2011-08-25T02:00:29.177Z He walked home feeling tottering and feeble; he had had a blow, but also a strong consolation—his daughter's child—his grandson. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z England spared neither women nor children nor old men tottering on the brink of the grave! Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet 2011-08-16T02:00:45.283Z With tottering steps he passed through the guard, composed of six men with halberds. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z Get started asking questions and you’ll find they start to gain momentum and build on each other until a delightful, tottering heap of them lies before you. Wordplay Blog: Numberplay: Don't Make a Triangle, Part 1 2011-08-15T15:31:37Z Sometimes, any more, I feel like a person tottering on sanity's limits. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z They met Sapieha, who supported the tottering knight on the other side. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z Conjure him to be silent as to this last event; for how soon, even without this, would death have claimed a weak and tottering old man! The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z Caren is old, so old he is somewhat decrepit ... hard, shrill and tottering. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z She dragged her tired limbs to the palace gates, and stood there, bent and tottering. The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales 2011-08-06T02:00:04.530Z Slowly the dear old lady rose And tottering forward came, And peering dimly through her “specks,” Said, “Honey, what’s your name?” The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z Such emotion seized Skshetuski that not knowing what he did, he slipped from the horse and stood tottering at the roadside. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z Domestic horses were not spared slaughter: even tottering old thoroughbreds ended up being sold for horseflesh. How a Billionaire's Wife Is Becoming the Mustangs' Messiah 2011-08-04T09:15:00Z The two tottering trembling white men did their best, but neither had strength to use the whip; the umfaan led the oxen this way and that, but there was no more effort in them. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z The whitened locks, the wrinkled face, the tottering frame, the palsied limbs and faltering voice, are sure indications that the time of departure is at hand. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z “Take me from my horse!” murmured the wounded man, stretching out his arms and tottering. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z All of them had passed middle life, and some were gray-haired, blind and tottering; but they prayed with a fervor and earnestness that compelled respect. Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people 2011-08-02T02:00:20.603Z Iwan Woronka was old and enfeebled, his tottering steps carrying him a little way only, to the village inn, his constant resort. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z With tottering steps I approached the door, only to find, as I expected, that it was locked. A Cabinet Secret 2011-07-31T02:00:10.693Z He had no strong hand to grasp his own, and bear him up, and stay his tottering footsteps. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z He stood there, tottering, looking with blinking eyes at the heap of men fighting at one side of the cabin.... The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z He pressed on; sometimes tottering, sometimes resting so long that he had to strive hard to reach the last man. Midnight Webs 2011-07-29T02:00:30.077Z The village seemed deserted; only a tottering old man in front of a cottage sat basking in the sun. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z In 1820, the Viceroy, who was still struggling to support the tottering throne, commissioned General Iturbide, who had been successful in several engagements with the Creoles, to reduce them to submission. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z If he reckoned right, the loyalty of the ladies at Nab Grange to the mistress thereof was tottering, if it had not fallen. Helena's Path 2011-07-29T02:00:22.607Z The moment we entered, the ruins were seen; houses tottering, streets demolished, here a window left alone, there up in the air a chimney scarcely supported; farther on some doorsteps and no door. The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War 2011-07-27T02:00:38.240Z Smothering his resentment, Murray slowly, and hardly able to press on himself, helped his tottering charge up the gully. Midnight Webs 2011-07-29T02:00:30.077Z The laborious edifice of his wickedness was tottering, and threatening to bury him in its ruins. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z Mrs. Temple’s conscience rose up and fought her, and she began to think that all her moral foundation was tottering. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z He stood tottering and tried to take a few steps. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z But those who fear to trust themselves to the ancient and tottering Biblical bridge, will hardly get into the sedan chair of obsolete orthodoxy, and add the weight of that to the danger. The Principles Of Secularism 2011-07-22T02:00:17.390Z Yet already attempts in Brussels to impose uniform corporation tax are tottering. Monetary union, always unworkable, has set in train a European disaster 2011-07-21T20:00:06Z With tottering knees, and almost beside himself with rage and terror, he slunk away. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z All eyes were fixed compassionately upon the pallid Albert, broken down in the flower of his years, as entered the court-room with tottering steps, supported between two gendarmes. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z He rose from the bed, and the girl led him silent and tottering out into the air. The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z Finding that I was fully determined, he hurried as fast as his tottering steps would allow to headquarters, for permission to go along! Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z I repeated hoarsely, creeping round with tottering and yet more tottering steps to where he pointed. Cynthia Wakeham's Money 2011-07-18T02:00:24.717Z The pillars of the East are tottering, its thrones are being destroyed, its power is being shattered and its supremacy is being obliterated. Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z His friend caught the tottering figure and supported the noble head. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z On reviewing his work he finds more hope than discouragement: what he found he left, what was tottering he kept stable. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z It was no tottering walk of a feeble man, but the quick, soft cat-like tread of some one full of life and energy, and bent upon some set design. Dutch the Diver A Man's Mistake 2011-07-15T02:00:21.010Z I repeated hoarsely, creeping round with tottering and yet more tottering steps to where he pointed. Cynthia Wakeham's Money 2011-07-18T02:00:24.717Z This left Mr Dimon free to snap up tottering rivals including Bear Stearns, an investment bank, and Washington Mutual, a thrift. JPMorgan Chase: Dimon geezer 2011-07-14T11:01:07Z "I am going into the church a moment," she said, tottering forward with uncertain steps, for she was exhausted both physically and mentally. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z The birch-trunks that still stood were charred and tottering, and a little steam rose from them. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z Helen knew that she was now safe, and she relaxed her speed, slowly and with tottering steps approaching the friends from whom, notwithstanding their long estrangement, her heart anticipated a warm and tender welcome. The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z Were his hopes to be--the thought made him giddy, breathless, and, almost tottering, he reached the door where Rieka was waiting to light him down the stairs. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z But such a tottering house, such a dream-built, precarious house of cards!— Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z At last, tottering, trembling, almost overcome by heat and haste, she reached the welcome shade on the northern side of the theatre and stopped, this was her goal. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z There was the babe, the creeping infant, the tottering child, in each. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z A little while after, having reached Chandra Rajah’s dominions, they were just going under the great arch of the palace courtyard, when the Wuzeer noticed some of the stones tottering. Old Deccan Days or Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India 2011-07-12T02:00:31.917Z She drew herself upward, then walked slowly, almost totteringly, toward the patient mare. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z One should not go to be judged with a tottering step. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z Stopped at the last moment, tottering, giddy, the startled woman sought to find a firm footing once more. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z “Poor old fellow! ninety-three,” said the Rector to himself, as he looked curiously at the strange old figure tottering up the rough cobble-stone path. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z In this dilemma imagination, ever active in magnifying concealed danger, pictured my situation as tottering on the brink of some such chasm as that of the Devil’s bridge. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z In fact, he had scarcely reached the middle when the tottering fabric seemed to give way and come toppling down into the chasm below. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z Methought you stood by my side, and, by your paleness and agitation, I perceived that you, too, trembled at the sight of the tottering crown on the murderers' spears. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z "Freyer!" shrieked the countess, tottering backward with her hand pressed upon her brow as if she had just received a blow on the head: "This to me--to-day!" On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z For a fraction of a moment she stood tottering; then her eyes closed, she swayed heavily and—a strong arm was flung round her and she was held firmly against the cliff. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z The light fell only on the lower part of the shrouded form; his walk was tottering and hesitating; a large sword glittered under his mantle. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z "And that is all the money that I have in the world!" gasped the young girl, tottering towards a chair. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z He stood on a lofty but dangerous eminence, near a tottering throne, and must take heed that he did not become giddy and fall. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z "Her Highness is ill!" he said to the servants who came hurrying out and helped the tottering woman up the steps. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z Its importance lies in the fact that Washington had won a clean cut victory when the Whig cause was tottering and by that victory had raised the drooping spirits of a despairing nation. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z All, from the schoolboy just breeched, to the old man, whose tottering steps were leading him to the grave, were lovers of freedom, and the sworn enemies of slavery. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z His form was bent, his steps tottering and listless. The White Squaw 2011-07-05T02:00:26.437Z I had grown terribly emaciated and black, and my legs were tottering under me. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z This constitution is become by degrees very elaborate, and that necessarily so, in order to uphold the tottering fabric, since Chore life no longer retains the freshness of its early days. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z He loses his spontaneity, his revolutionary hardihood, and that troublesome and savage energy characteristic of the grandest geniuses, ever called to destroy old tottering worlds and lay the foundations of new. God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z Spain’s government was already tottering in the Philippines when the Spanish-American war broke out. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z He ardently loved his sister Caroline, who was several years younger than himself; and whenever he came from school, would ask for her, and take her in his arms, or guide her tottering footsteps. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z The girl passed an arm about the tottering form to steady the fat little feet, and retorted on her questioner. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z Scrambling over the debris the wounded lancer made his way to a corner of the tottering walls. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z Tiny children, tottering to the well in broad daylight, were pelted with musketry. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z We cannot put new wills into a patient, but we can so brace up even an old and tottering will as to make it possible for the worst victims of drug habits to reform. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z He was built strongly, like the oak among trees; yet his steps were weak and unsteady as those of the tottering babe. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z |
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