单词 | tottery |
例句 | As she approached her 80s she became tottery, broke her hip as a result of a bad fall, and was soon reduced to immobility and incontinence. Diana Athill: Why I moved into an old people's home 2010-04-16T23:35:00Z But even this is proving too demanding, since Cherry’s drug problems keep her in tottery condition. Books of The Times: How to Handle a Pop Star in Carl Hiaasen?s ?Star Island? 2010-07-20T22:00:00Z You mustn't even mind being a little tottery upon your legs at first. The Little Princess of Tower Hill 2012-02-06T03:00:11.547Z He tried to stand, but found he was too tottery on his legs. The White Crystals Being an Account of the Adventures of Two Boys 2012-01-13T03:00:11.507Z He took her arm, and Melian, who had not expected anything like so affectionate a welcome, felt in her present tottery state inclined to break down utterly. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Mary, although a little "tottery," as she said, was able to walk slowly, and she declared it was much better for her to go too, than to remain at home wondering what was happening. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z The vibration and shock of the heavy guns had been too much for the old tower, which, for years in a tottery condition, had been patched up so often. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z You may walk with those tottery legs of yours, but you certainly cannot run. The Little Princess of Tower Hill 2012-02-06T03:00:11.547Z And that would be the end of your career, and probably of the Ministry as well; I believe the Ministry will stand or fall with you; and it's already pretty tottery.... What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z For the Baron's gait was somewhat tottery and uncertain, and he even toppled over altogether pretty frequently, but got up upon his feet immediately, after the manner of a jack-in-the-box. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II For an unencumbered man to descend it in the deepening dusk was a most difficult task; but to get a tottery, nerve-shaken, pain-wracked cripple down was a feat of positive wonder. Alaska Days with John Muir As if in answer to his thoughts, the tottery old nobleman raised his long arm, and at once the hall became absolutely silent. The Royal Book of Oz In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island His great grey tottery hat seemed about to tumble on the floor—his back bowed a little more—and he groaned deeply, three times. Amaryllis at the Fair He was weak and tottery, but he paid no attention to that. The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure He was recaptured, drenched with two more bottles, and let loose to wander wherever his tottery legs would carry him. The Tale of a Trooper His legs, which had been tottery for several months, refused to carry him, and he felt as unhappy as ever a well-meaning man possibly can in this world. The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country The major closed the latchless door and took the one tottery chair. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights Still my passenger had no word to say but kept staring ahead though she could see nothing before her except the trunkladen rearend of a tottery ford long past its majority. Greener Than You Think For ages it's been tottery, because Thistledown never understood Fluffy, and Fluffy, poor little thing, seemed to understand everybody except Thistledown. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914 "I hope you don't feel weak or 'tottery'?" The Lion's Mouse Dodgy looked a bit tottery, but 'e was game all through and very careful, and, try as Bill might, he didn't seem to be able to get 'old of 'im agin. Light Freights Through a barred window the wondering warden sourly watched the crawling, tottery figure. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights In this way the ghost of the victim, whose things are carried in the bundle, is supposed to make their enemies weak and tottery. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia The second took Mr. Laird home, a little tottery on his legs, and Laird sent back a note in his own hand declining to fight a duel with me on any terms whatever. Chapters from My Autobiography "We might take a little spin in a machine," he finished with a tottery tone of indifference. The She Boss A Western Story A "first-class measure" means, for instance, tinkering for months at some tottery compromise about a Religious Education that doesn't exist. Gilbert Keith Chesterton The toiling grim figure in black had seemed so feeble and so tottery and old. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights Help me to be quick, Ursie dear, for I feel so queer and tottery.' Uncle Max Though souls may rush together, if body cannot endure body, happiness is reared on sand and the structure will be ever unstable and tottery. A Daughter of the Snows His steps at first were very tottery, and he had need of support, but once we reached level ground he walked steadily. For The Admiral Here the reckless hero frolicked about on his little tottery legs. A Study of Fairy Tales And then came the explosion, but so distant that it caused no more than a mere rumble of the ground, and a faintly-felt concussion of the now tottery building. The Khaki Boys over the Top Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam He was feeling very tottery, and the painfulness of his head did not improve his temper. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle Also, it is very tottery in the high places, and when I began altering their political structures I came to grief again. A Daughter of the Snows He was an Indian, and very old, and he walked with that bent, tottery walk of old age. Casey Ryan It seemed to me that the porter was rather tottery, owing perhaps to a lengthy absorption of vodka. The Adventures of a Special Correspondent In the foreground, in the paddock by the barn, was Mab, full of pretty anxieties for the early spring foal that staggered about her on tottery legs. Burning Daylight When we were finishing our breakfast the door opened, and in came little Flossie, very pale and tottery, but quite unhurt. Allan Quatermain I found him first, a little withered, dried-up old fellow, wrinkled-faced and bleary-eyed and tottery. Before Adam Up to the moment when it was agreed that that tottery manikin was to marry Rose—our relations were strictly honourable. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II He was very tottery when he came in—complained of the stairs and the fog. The Talleyrand Maxim Miss Theodosia laughed out girlishly, not at all a tottery laugh on a cane, and the pleasant sound broke the midnight stillness. Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings This, I managed, at the second attempt; but I was very tottery, and peculiarly weak. The House on the Borderland He struggled on to his tottery old legs; before George could save him the exertion, had hobbled over the hearth-rug and was wringing his hand in tremendous pleasure. Once Aboard the Lugger His eyes were bulging, and he was tottery on his feet, swaying from side to side and still making a fight with his hands. Smoke Bellew "Ay, well, they did admit, these men too, that it seemed a bit tottery, like," remarked the landlord. The Talleyrand Maxim I'd been three months in hospital, and when I came out I looked so weak and tottery that the two or three ladies I applied to were afraid to engage me. The Descent of Man and Other Stories Mary had engaged to guide her friend's tottery steps on the slippery path of Melbourne society, did Mr. Devine enter the ministry. Australia Felix For a moment he stood looking at me in a dazed and tottery kind of way, and then to my amazement he turned and made off. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures She touched the spring of the panel behind her, and displayed the little tottery staircase to the American. The Enchanted Castle What a precious experience now this would have been for a tottery, talkative, owlish old parochial creature like me. The Return They had been, and were, very happy together none the less: though sometimes their happiness was a little tottery. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) "I'm just a little tottery still," she muttered. The Lodger He obeyed quickly enough, and presently was standing on one leg by my side, looking cramped and tottery. Finished Mrs. Dennison, she slid off the bed and walked sort of tottery to a chair. The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural A few minutes later, weak and rather tottery, he managed to reach Mr. Damon, whom he first unbound. Tom Swift and His Aerial Warship, or, the Naval Terror of the Seas When I did get up, I felt so tottery that I could hardly keep my feet. Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger Cash was tottery weak from his own illness, and he could not speak above a whisper. Cabin Fever But before ten days were gone, even the woman Ipsukuk exhausted her provisions, and went home weak and tottery. The Faith of Men His walk was actually tottery as he came down the port side of the cabin. The Sea Wolf |
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