tottery

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Mr. Coltrane’s music finds a tottery balance in the space between free-form improvisation and pulsing, onrushing flow.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2018

There's wit, in Helena Bonham Carter's tottery impersonation of Hermione transformed into villainess Bellatrix Lestrange.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2011

Today's visitor thinks of the city as a tottery invalid, preserved by the skin of the teeth from the ravages of tide, effluent, mass sightseeing and economic slump.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am growing very tottery and had considerable difficulty in dressing this a. m.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this way the ghost of the victim, whose things are carried in the bundle, is supposed to make their enemies weak and tottery.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Frazer, James George, Sir