Example Sentences

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It is the Great Film Desert across which, since the beginning of cinema, thirsty actors have tottered carrying beautiful women.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tracks of a man upon the sandy surface, indicated that the traveller had continued his route on foot; but the footmarks showed also, that he must have tottered rather than walked.

From Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora by Reid, Mayne

She did none of the dismayedly enlightening things into which a lesser poise might have tottered.

From The Palace of Darkened Windows by Frederick, Edmund

Often, no doubt, I have tottered, but I have not fallen; the most potent cause of my wrong-doing lay in the grandeur of the seductions that encompassed me.

From The Lily of the Valley by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

Many of its massive stones have tottered to the earth; and irrelevant little birds sing in nests among the capitals and mock the solemn silence that the Greeks ordained.

From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker