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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of totter.

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Examples

  • The black swan with difficulty extricated itself from this murderous grasp, hurried on shore, tottered from the water's edge a few paces, and then fell to die.

    The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845

  • Having heard thus far I tottered from the summer-house, and got into the shrubbery, where

    The Castle of Wolfenbach Eliza 1793

  • The first girl to answer my call tottered into the room half-naked and half-asleep.

    River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

  • Margot tottered away, and came again presently with the water.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Margot tottered away, and came again presently with the water.

    The Right of Way — Volume 03 Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Margot tottered away, and came again presently with the water.

    The Right of Way — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Though he felt light-headed from the morning and afternoon group-meditation sessions and the trancing suck of the desert sun, he pushed himself up and tottered back to the yurt on legs that might as well have been deboned for all the stability they offered him, this perfect gift of the dragonfly inside him and no way to get it out.

    The Silence 2010

  • Though he felt light-headed from the morning and afternoon group-meditation sessions and the trancing suck of the desert sun, he pushed himself up and tottered back to the yurt on legs that might as well have been deboned for all the stability they offered him, this perfect gift of the dragonfly inside him and no way to get it out.

    The Silence 2010

  • Barack Obama vacillated awkwardly as Mr Mubarak tottered.

    Egypt: After the revolution, the ballot box | Observer editorial 2011

  • Deciding they needed more, they tottered to the nightclub opposite.

    Baby Blue Penny Goring 2011

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