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.
In that case her tottering faith would have become firm again.
She whispered in his ear "You silly ass," and then, tottering to her chamber, lay down on the bed.
Balenciaga released its own shoe made in collaboration with Crocs in October 2017, which are set on an "exaggerated foam platform" which will have you tottering at five inches above your normal height.
You have come out in the morning to play in the courtyard, tottering and tumbling as you run.
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.
The "lively" character Harriot "tottering on her French heels and with her head as unsteady as her feet" in a 1781 story "The Delineator," represented the typical 18th-century feminine ideal.
We were just at the little bridge, by good fortune; and I helped her, tottering as she was, to the edge of the bank, where, sure enough, she gave a sigh and fell on my shoulder.
In the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars.
However, while many of these factors were linked to an increased risk over the years, tottering around in high heels for years was not.
He put the cask in a basket, which he took on his back, and walked with slow and tottering steps to the count's castle.
In the Au grow the yellow water-lilies and brown feathery reeds; the dark velvety flag grows there, high and thick; old and decayed willows, slanting and tottering, hang far out over the stream beside the monk's meadow and by the bleaching ground; but opposite there are gardens upon gardens, each different from the rest, some with pretty flowers and bowers like little dolls' pleasure grounds, often displaying cabbage and other kitchen plants; and here and there the gardens cannot be seen at all,
They will come over to see the monuments and the great cities, which will then be in ruins, just as we in our time make pilgrimages to the tottering splendors of Southern Asia.
'Twas in my arms thy lisping tongue First spoke the half-remembered word, While o'er thy tottering steps I hung, My fond protection to afford.
