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Definition of Tottered
1. totter [v] - See also: totter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tottered
Literary usage of Tottered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Romance of the American Theatre by Mary Caroline Crawford (1913)
"realistic paragraph about the " poor half-dressed supernumerary women, now made
for the first time in their lives to stand upon one leg, who tottered ..."
2. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"and tottered to the stage door speechless, where she was caught. The audience,
of course, applauded until she was out of sight, and then sunk into awful ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"After this the duchy tottered on, merging ever more into the stream of French
history, though its bishops were princes of the empire and resided in imperial ..."
4. Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann by Horace Walpole (1844)
"... credit considerably, which tottered before by the King's apprehension of that
invasion producing a war. Our newspapers have even disgraced the duke, ..."
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