Example Sentences

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Ay, but when our trust Totters, and faith is shattered to the base, Grand words will not uprear it.

From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar

HE sheep were in the fold at night; And now a new-born lamb Totters and trembles in the light, Or bleats beside its dam.

From Chatterbox Stories of Natural History by Anonymous

Totters the house as though, like dry leaf shorn From autumn bough and on the mad blast borne, Up from its deep foundations it were torn   To join the stormy whirl.

From Poems by Hugo, Victor

And the light Of glory fills me, though my physical frame Totters on dissolution.

From Mr. Faust by Ficke, Arthur Davison