faltered

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Alas! the Eagle stooped; those well-poised pinions Faltered, and beat the air unevenly; Nor shall the Bird maintain its proud dominions If those wings lapse from rhythm, pulse awry.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 13, 1890 by Various

"There is no mark to guide the eye," Faltered the chidden man; "Yon thing of white is as the sky— No difference can I scan!"

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

And the last gold beam across the green world Faltered and failed, as he Remembered his solitude and the dark night's Inhospitality.

From The Listeners and Other Poems by De la Mare, Walter

Umber the sodden reaches seemed and seer As when the dying year, With rime-white sandals shod, Faltered and fell upon its frozen bier.

From The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets by Various

When you are praying to the martyred Christ, Remember me who, as my weakness could, Faltered afar behind His shining steps, And died for truth, forgiving all mankind.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various