totter

How to use totter in a sentence

Others, holding to the side of the building, felt with stupefaction the boards totter beneath their touch.

A LOST HEROELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD AND HERBERT D. WARD

Another glass and another fifteen minutes; a third glass, and hour's walk; after which allowed to totter home, and breakfast.

They could see his feet totter; all held breath—the moat was very deep; he recovered, ran on.

GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS

There was a great shock, and the cabin seemed to totter on the brink of the chasm.

If the old almsfolk wished to pray to God daily, they might totter three-quarters of a mile up to the Minster.

Several times Jack felt Bill totter and sway; he was fast being swept back into the deeper water.

The maker had pride in his work, and, to see it totter and tumble, was a misfortune he would avert with his life—or fall with it.

UNDER THE ROSEFREDERIC STEWART ISHAM

But the son has now left the father to totter on alone, and the daughter has outstripped the mother in the race.

As Elliott looked at Bruce Fearing, one of the pillars of her familiar world began to totter.

The stony hills are dashed together, the giantesses totter; men tread the path of Hel, and heaven is cloven.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985