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1. We stood balanced on a teeter totter
2. teeter on the edge of losing control
3. His hand that clenched the newel post trembled and allowed him to maintain his balance, as he seemed to teeter back and forth on the stairs
4. Rhonda down the hall watching her elephant butt teeter back
5. The pipe that he and Lenar had just blown fell, hitting the second pipe, turning up like an unbalanced teeter tatter before sinking the rest of the way to the bottom
6. Doors teeter on their rusted hinges
7. “We teeter at the brink of sanity---a mindless chasm awaits our plunge
8. The barrier began to teeter under the force of the spinning tires
9. � They teeter on the brink, if not fall off most of the time, of road rage against other drivers, stop lights, even themselves
10. Short-term or long-term? Bonds and interest rates teeter on opposite ends of a seesaw: If interest rates rise, bond prices fall—although a short-term bond falls far less than a long-term bond
11. I teeter on the brink
12. We teeter between horror and relief as George corners the beautiful Rose in the belltower and chokes the life out of her
13. Ruddick is about the Harris Teeter grocery business, not textiles
14. Ducks and geese frequent it in the spring and fall, the white-bellied swallows (Hirundo bicolor) skim over it, and the peetweets (Totanus macularius) "teeter" along its stony shores all summer
15. To sailors, oaths are household words; they will swear in the trance of the calm, and in the teeth of the tempest; they will imprecate curses from the topsail-yard-arms, when most they teeter over to a seething sea; but in all my voyagings, seldom have I heard a common oath when God's burning finger has been laid on the ship; when His "Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin" has been woven into the shrouds and the cordage
1. Desa almost went in also and teetered on the edge
2. Kaitlyn held her arms in front of her and teetered in the direction of Olivia
3. "No," she shouted pushing against his firm chest, then debated if that was such a good idea, as her heel teetered, on the top step, and finally slid out from under her
4. A pair of familiar feeling arms caught her the moment she teetered backwards, and pulled her close “The lady's not interested Wes
5. walking toward the ocean and into the giant red-orange sun that teetered on the
6. man teetered and wobbled with a surprised look on his face
7. teetered on the edge of the pit only to be pulled back to safety by Agent Johnson
8. Now Alan lay perfectly still as the last shards still tinkled down from wherever they had teetered
9. His heels overhung the drop and for a worrying moment he teetered unsteadily, then Chris and Jeffrey caught his frantically circling arms and pulled him clear
10. I teetered and thrust Jesus at Joseph as I grabbed for my husband"s arm
11. Khan saw a chance as Raven teetered on one leg and swung his foot around to connect with Raven’s supporting leg
12. Longleaf teetered for a minute and collapsed onto the deck
13. His mouth on my neck was torture, his hands pushing me right to the edge, where I teetered, caught
14. forward, then reared back again and teetered on the edge, arms
15. jeering, teetered on the edge, and, with arms waving in despera-
16. It teetered on the brink of the frame as Andre struggled with the weight and the sheer awkwardness of it
17. Manda had thought she was dead for certain, when she had teetered momentarily on the edge of the cliff, her arms thrashing in the air
18. The man gave a hearty but fraudulent laugh, and Swann teetered between cordiality and sending him on his way
19. Instead of accelerating out of the skid, she braked, sending the car juddering over the edge, where it teetered for a second before rolling down a grassy slope
20. The magician teetered backwards and bumped into the stove, knocking his disconnected head free to the floor
21. Either was within arm's length; for the fraction of a split second the chest teetered ont he edge of the bridge, and Muriela clung by one arm, her face turned desperately toward Conan, her eyes dilated with the fear of death and her lips parted in a haunting cry of despair
22. things over when he teetered through the house
23. He teetered the barstool on its legs and cocked his head to the side
24. “Welky, Mary, Elmer,” Henry muttered to himself, his words barely able to be heard or understood as he teetered back and forth
25. These teetered and fell
26. “Went out myself the other day,” Feltus rocked on his heels and teetered momentarily as though he was going to plummet backwards
27. The cacophony of emotions drove his fragile mind to the edge of sanity where he now teetered dangerously, unsure of where and how he should proceed given the damning evidence in the inspector’s possession
28. As they teetered back and forth, Stokes remained ready to drop
29. Jimmy teetered, off balance, and plopped into a chair
30. The man teetered back a few steps and
31. as her long blond pony tail teetered in the wind
32. he teetered back and forth stubbing his toe into the veneer
33. Long nose hairs teetered about under the stertorous
34. voice teetered on the edge of the grunt of a wild boar
35. As she teetered on the brink of the ravine, she vocally thanked the Creator for His
36. When the song ended, the exhausted mahu slumped back and teetered on the edge
37. Kevin teetered and tottered, barely able to tell where he was looking
38. It festered with the cloying scent of someone who had teetered far too long at the brink of demise, whose cloudy eyes and wracked joints and bloody, toothless gums were good for nothing but pain and malaise
39. institutions have teetered on the edge of collapse, and some have failed
40. As if hit, he grabbed his chest, groaned and teetered
41. Her body was still pressed against me as we teetered on the edge of the windowsill, dangerously close to the floor below and the hands reaching up to grab us and tear us into tasty, bloody morsels
42. GREG TEETERED ACROSS Main Street and up the alley behind American Biomedical
43. Wallowing in turbulent thought, Mitch staggerd behind the gym, teetered against the dumpster, and collapsed against the wall of the old building
44. He rolled onto the platform and teetered on the edge
45. The ball connected with a flying jar and shattered into thousands of pieces, crystal and potion glinting midair as the poles supporting the draped damask groaned and teetered
46. Then it bounced to the board and teetered for a moment
47. He had teetered on the edge of a lucid dream, one minute managing nicely, the next being flung into circumstances beyond his reckoning
48. He teetered, uncertain, and his hateful thoughts filled my throat with a burning sensation
49. Gerek teetered on a stool next to a giant laser saw and swept a thick-fingered hand over his prematurely balding head
50. Raf teetered at the top of the stairs
1. She noticed the other bird teetering on the edge
2. She drifted through the minds of a people living in despair, teetering on the verge of emptiness
3. The nearer my deadlines loomed, the more monsters Amadeus would spot in my precisely arranged and precariously teetering stacks of papers
4. He accelerated into a turn, thrilling to the feel of the car teetering at the very edge of its limits
5. Hilderich repeated his question, this time shouting, demanding, fury overtaking him despite the parts of his mind that warned him of teetering on a precipice of unfathomable depth, every step reeking with deadly danger:
6. But I am teetering on the edge of grief’s mouth, and if I returned to my parents’ old faction, it would swallow me
7. I should have been thinking of my friend, teetering between this world and whatever comes next, but instead I thought of what I said to Tobias
8. arms, she saw that another portion of the ceiling was teetering and ready to
9. pieces of paper still teetering semi-balanced in the slight
10. teetering over top of us, trembling with black electricity
11. swaying of the boat so severe that the gunwales were teetering
12. that we were teetering on the edge of tragedy
13. of them, teetering on a notch that was made where they met
14. pointed two different directions and he was teetering forward
15. He hung for a moment teetering on one arm, then slowly toppled backward
16. ” Ma chuckled as she watched Edwin teetering on the edge of the trench
17. Now the wreckage of the hull, which was resting against a big rock, was teetering and threatening to collapse on top of the tangled animal
18. Weak with hunger and the burning sun, Jesus stood teetering on the wall
19. When Anthony overturned the van just before Lausanne, leaving us teetering over a fifty metre drop to Lake Geneva below, no one screamed
20. He turned and hurled the flask across the room where it clattered and spun to a stop, teetering like an old rocking chair
21. Teeing all the ramifications together, she felt her mind go teetering towards
22. myself teetering on the edge of an abyss that I knew falling into would
23. Jose looked mystified by the whole experience, teetering on what looked to be the brink of reality; a foggy new dimension that was beginning to resemble more of a fantasy; one that for the moment, truly hindered his focus
24. He was teetering on the precipice
25. They kissed again in teetering positions
26. But in one fluid leap she was teetering on the top of the pole, tail squirming for
27. school attendance expanded, and enrollment in secondary education skyrocketed; and the gap between rich and poor has mushroomed, common courtesy is in the tank, debt and trade deficits have exploded, and the American economy is teetering on the brink of catastrophe
28. difficult for the players to keep levitated on their teetering limbs
29. Despite there having once been a time when each different type of plate was sorted into its own separate stack, they were now being tossed together in random, teetering card-house piles of butter-slathered glass, coated with crusted cheese dips and half-devoured, soggy, broccoli, all of which was routinely splashed into Blok's face from the required high water-pressure of the rinsing hose
30. The business phone is teetering on the edge of the desk with a red light blinking
31. Christine's world, which was already teetering unbalanced
32. The receding draft of the huge bird sucked him irresistibly out from his forward lean and he suddenly found himself teetering on the ledge’s rim
33. But as there was no space for anything new in ShantyTown, and vertical construction was impossible given the resources at hand, they’d typically just patch or prop or partition their teetering shacks, struggling to extend the grim serviceability of what little they had
34. She was teetering in glittery killer heels but she still had to draw herself up to her full height to kiss Caramarin
35. I couldn’t see Justine anywhere, but Graham was above me, teetering on the edge of the vast hole I was in
36. It grew up in the Middle Ages and only 20 years ago, there was a host of medieval shops and houses teetering over the pavement
37. Clearly he was teetering on the brink of madness
38. The horse snorted, eyes rolling at the teetering figure who advanced upon them, but stood its ground, vetted warhorse that it was
39. Teetering on the
40. Now… today, as i write these words: the entire earth is teetering on a balance point between life and death
41. If that fucking Russian asshole had not decided to invade Europe the teetering balance of imperial powers would have lasted longer… and all of the millions of good things that were happening at this time would have had a chance to grow, and flower… and all of the evil rotting things would have had a chance to die out or be destroyed by the new wave of good that was being born everywhere all over the newly industrialized world
42. can look at the present world, teetering on the brink of disaster and easily understand this self-evident
43. They also prove that humanity is now teetering on the brink of long-prophesied and self-caused
44. Furthermore, since this world is teetering on the precipice of
45. the world is teetering on a thin line and that destruction is at the
46. A huge improvement from the teetering heels I had been forced to wear since coming to Paradan
47. Teetering dangerously on the edge he shifted his feet and used the momentum of the rocking spire to reach his hand inside the doorway
48. Rincewind occasionally had nightmares about teetering on some intangible but enormously high place, and seeing a blue-distanced, cloud-punctuated landscape reeling away below him (this usually woke him up with his ankles sweating; he would have been even more worried had he known that the nightmare was not, as he thought, just the usual discworld vertigo
49. The fourth and final approaching creature was able to stop in time, teetering on the very edge of the cliff, a spike and a claw holding it in place
50. Maybe Abigail had been teetering on the edge of her decision, playing around with the idea but not really seriously considering it, and Ed’s “calm down” comment had been just the shove she’d needed
1. He sucks in dueling lungfuls of air, teeters and falls face forward
2. A tree with droopy branches and shriveled leaves teeters over the frail stalks of grass that cover the yard
3. time as humanity teeters towards its self destruction
4. Timber splinters, as though the rubble teeters on some final fulcrum