Example Sentences

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This cannot be until there are no more fools living, for until the last fool has grown wise wisdom will totter and freedom will still be invisible.

From The Crock of Gold by Stephens, James

These men will totter on, and longer perhaps than even themselves imagine.

From Sybil, or the Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

"And when your Excellency returns in triumph, I will totter into the porch to welcome you."

From From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The very moment the latter is undermined, capitalism will totter.

From Anarchism and Other Essays by Goldman, Emma

It is an unendurable paradox; it must be changed or the bases of culture will totter and fall.

From Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)