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1. in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars
2. tottering congregations that are built upon these trash heaps, but
3. ” Sicarius stopped before a tottering wooden structure on a dilapidated dock
4. Through the opening she created, Caroline appeared to be tottering at the ragged edge of consciousness
5. Then, from the first door, another man emerged followed by a gray old man, tottering with a cane as rapidly as his legs could manage to join the wailing mass on the lawn
6. tottering Weimar Republic—legislation which, though a travesty of the law, will
7. A handful of tottering old magicians and desperate merchants threw
8. but when Bes cal ed the old gods to war, Onuris came tottering out of a
9. The sun flamed up slowly, sullenly, above the jungle, flooding the towers with a dull gold that left shadows lurking beneath the tottering walls
10. The well-knit kingdom Conan had built up seemed tottering on the edge of dissolution, and commoners and merchants trembled at the imminence of a return of the feudalistic regime
11. She sat up, dizzily tottering
12. He could barely stay standing without tottering
13. Home for lunch later than usual, I found the table set, the food on the table and a pale Amina tottering and holding her side
14. And our unsteady tottering exit from the hotel to go to the car
15. Lizzie started moving her limbs, a little more each day and with the physiotherapist and her own determination to get better, she started standing and tottering around the room initially with crutches
16. Zeke came to a tottering halt as he stared at me wildly and then obediently he swung the machete cleanly taking off the top of the broom leaving me with just the handle in my hands
17. When the meal was finished, she led her guests--with Benjamin tottering along behind--outside through a door at the back of the restaurant
18. He and his friends were tottering off towards the front of the dais
19. Master Pedro refused to take the money, saying, "I will not receive payment in advance or until the service has been first rendered;" and then with his right hand he gave a couple of slaps on his left shoulder, and with one spring the ape perched himself upon it, and putting his mouth to his master's ear began chattering his teeth rapidly; and having kept this up as long as one would be saying a credo, with another spring he brought himself to the ground, and the same instant Master Pedro ran in great haste and fell upon his knees before Don Quixote, and embracing his legs exclaimed, "These legs do I embrace as I would embrace the two pillars of Hercules, O illustrious reviver of knight-errantry, so long consigned to oblivion! O never yet duly extolled knight, Don Quixote of La Mancha, courage of the faint-hearted, prop of the tottering, arm of the fallen, staff and counsel of all who are unfortunate!"
20. She often stopped a moment to look where to place her foot, and tottering on a stone that shook, her arms outspread, her form bent forward with a look of indecision, she would laugh, afraid of falling into the puddles of water
21. And I shall remain satisfied, and proud to have been the first who has ever enjoyed the fruit of his writings as fully as he could desire; for my desire has been no other than to deliver over to the detestation of mankind the false and foolish tales of the books of chivalry, which, thanks to that of my true Don Quixote, are even now tottering, and doubtless doomed to fall for ever
22. creature, that, with tottering footsteps, approached the bed
23. There was one tall tower in a corner, rather tottering, where they say Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned
24. Then came a representation of the light and graceful movements of a canoe, set in forcible contrast to the tottering steps of one enfeebled and tired
25. "No, my dear fellow," returned the young man, seating himself on the divan; "reassure yourself; we are tottering always, but we never fall, and I begin to believe that we shall pass into a state of immobility, and then the affairs of the Peninsula will completely consolidate us
26. Everywhere along its bands were the moldering relics of dead trees, in all the stages of decay, from those that groaned on their tottering trunks to such as had recently been robbed of those rugged coats that so mysteriously contain their principle of life
27. Weak and tottering footsteps resounded across the chamber above me, and the next instant a dull, heavy weight seemed to fall powerless on the staircase
28. Workmen were immediately called in, and that same night the passengers at the end of the faubourg saw with surprise that carpenters and masons were occupied in repairing the lower part of the tottering house
29. Mattie followed them to the front, with Buddy gasping for air and tottering like a ninety-year-old
30. Levin went into the pen, looked Pava over, and lifted the red and spotted calf onto her long, tottering legs
31. A lucky one or two of that spectral company of prisoners would perhaps be led tottering behind a bush to be shot by a file of soldiers
32. "Oh, I know you will defend my memory," he uttered at last, and ran tottering down the stairs across the patio, and out of the house
33. He ran with headlong, tottering swiftness, his arms going like a windmill in his effort to keep his balance on his crippled feet
34. In that case her tottering faith would have become firm again
35. The poor thing had no force to fling out any passion in return; the terrible collapse of the illusion towards which all her hope had been strained was a stroke which had too thoroughly shaken her: her little world was in ruins, and she felt herself tottering in the midst as a lonely bewildered consciousness
36. But little Berthe was there, between the window and the work-table, tottering on her knitted shoes, and trying to come to her mother to catch hold of the ends of her apron-strings
37. Dazzled by the prosperity of the Restoration, which was tottering when he left France, fascinated by the splendor of aristocratic ideas, his intoxication, which began on the brig, increased after he reached Paris, and he finally determined to take the course and reach the high position which the selfish hopes of his would-be mother-in-law pointed out to him
38. tottering about in the Wild
39. The banking system is tottering
40. A crazily high market price for the stock of a tottering giant
41. She recovered and was walking, or rather tottering, within a week, but
42. It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid of Father Elysee
43. But in their faces you could see their world tottering, their happiness in danger
44. the earth quaking in Italy, Metternich extending his hand over Bologna, France treating Austria sharply at Ancona, at the North no one knew what sinister sound of the hammer nailing up Poland in her coffin, irritated glances watching France narrowly all over Europe, England, a suspected ally, ready to give a push to that which was tottering and to hurl herself on that which should fall, the peerage sheltering itself behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys erased from the King's carriage, the cross torn from Notre Dame, Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in indigence, Casimir Perier dead in the exhaustion of his power; political and social malady breaking out simultaneously in the two capitals of the kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same glare of the furnace; a crater-like crimson on the brow of the people; the South rendered fanatic, the West troubled, the Duchesse de Berry in la Vendee, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar of tumult of events to the sombre roar of ideas
45. bench, and walked, all bent over and with tottering footsteps, to the well, but when he had grasped the chain, he could not even draw it sufficiently to unhook it
46. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed his thoughts and his eyes to penetrate indiscreetly between the bars of that ancient, padlocked gate, twisted, tottering, fastened to two green and moss-covered pillars, and oddly crowned with a pediment of undecipherable arabesque
47. It seemed as though the miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with warts, with mould, and ulcers, tottering, worm-eaten, abandoned, condemned, a sort of mendicant colossus, asking alms in vain with a benevolent look in the midst of the cross-roads, had taken pity on that other mendicant, the poor pygmy, who roamed without shoes to his feet, without a roof over his head, blowing on his fingers, clad in rags, fed on rejected scraps
48. He traversed the chamber with slow steps, with bowed head, tottering and more like a dying man than like one merely taking his departure
49. “It was made out of the rib cage of a stegosaurus,” explained the old man as he pottered about fishing bits of wire out fromunder tottering piles of paper and drawing instruments
50. And then my mind made its first earnest effort to comprehend what had been infused into it concerning heaven and hell; and for the first time it recoiled, baffled; and for the first time glancing behind, on each side, and before it, it saw all round an unfathomed gulf: it felt the one point where it stood—the present; all the rest was formless cloud and vacant depth; and it shuddered at the thought of tottering, and plunging amid that chaos