Heathcliff, we have each had a commencement, and each stumbled and tottered on the threshold; had our teachers scorned instead of aiding us, we should stumble and totter yet.
" He walked in slowly, propped by his wife and daughter and tottered into his arm-chair.
It was talked about, gloated over, glorified, until the reason of many of the citizens tottered under the strain of the unhealthy excitement.
He tottered out, haggard.
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, , And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, , Thy youth's proud livery so gazed on now, ,, Will be a tottered weed of small worth held: ,.
When Becky returned, he limped and tottered in wild, joyous circles around her.
" The old woman tottered up to them, begged them to lift the basket from her back, and sat down beside them at the fire.
" And he walked away, not toward the house, but over to the ditch, where he tottered and fell.
She raised herself, tottered forward a few steps, and sank down again at the entrance to a little church.
A cry of agony escaped from him; he struggled to get free, and tottered from her.
She struggled against these convictions of the truth of Christianity for some days, till one evening while watching her mistress she was suddenly taken very ill; her limbs tottered under her, and she sank fainting by the bedside of the sick woman.
The laundress slipped and tottered through the lane, and round the corner, into the street where the mayor lived; and just as she reached the front of his house, she sank down upon the pavement.
The mothers carried their little children at their backs, the elder ones tottered by their sides, and a poor starved horse tugged at a cart that bore their scanty effects.
