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Definition of Totterers
1. totterer [n] - See also: totterer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Totterers
Literary usage of Totterers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... sinking his dignity all in a moment, he snatched the little totterers, lovely
as embodied cherubs, up in his arms, and nearly worried them with kisses. ..."
2. Philosophy and Theology: Being the First Edinburgh University Gifford Lectures by James Hutchison Stirling (1890)
"Add weakness to weakness, in any quantity, you will never make strength; if you
totter already, the tottering against you of ever so many totterers will ..."
3. Goal Lines: An Anthology of Princeton Verse : Athletically Inclined by Frank Davis Halsey, Anastasio Carlos Mariano Azoy (1922)
"Add Harvard team, Princeton team, Harvard spectators, Princeton spectators,
neutral spectators, and Yale scouts to list of totterers. ..."
4. A Suburb of Yedo by Theobald Andrew Purcell (1889)
"And, indeed, I don't believe you could get on without me, you old totterers.
You'd surely fall together and hurt your old selves if I did not prop you up. ..."
5. "Our Neighbourhood": Or, Sketches in the Suburbs of Yedo by T. A. P. (1874)
"And, indeed, I don't believe you " could get on without me, you old totterers.
You'd " surely fall together and hurt your old selves if I " did not prop you ..."
6. Rambles & Reveries by Edwin Waugh (1872)
"... life-worn totterers, who prefer open-air starvation to pauper-imprisonment,
and who creep timidly about, trying to get " a trifle for a bit of tea, ..."
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