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Often Meredith wishes to be too concise, and squeezes his thoughts together like this: and the totterer Earth detests, Love shuns, grim logic screws in grasp, is he.

From Figures of Several Centuries by Symons, Arthur

God be thanked, I am much better than I was, though something of a totterer.

From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan

Else, past ripeness, deathward bound, He reasons; and the totterer Earth detests, Love shuns, grim logic screws in grasp, is he.

From Poems — Volume 3 by Meredith, George