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And clustered close drew the three comrades, with Death at their elbows, and as the oldest rose totteringly he spoke in a voice audible only for a few feet.

From Time Magazine Archive

The red-faced man at the next table eyed them as they went out, leaving behind them a waiter who clutched totteringly for support at the back of a chair.

From Jill the Reckless by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Phebe’s eyes were wide open, but she made no sign when the sick woman rose totteringly to her feet.

From Polly of Lady Gay Cottage by Dowd, Emma C.

One day a woman, frail and gray, Stepped totteringly across the floor— "Let in," said she, "the light of day, Then, Jean, unlock the bottom drawer."

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss

At length, seemingly in obedience to all this clamor, the solar image left the basket and slowly, falteringly, totteringly, ascended the plank to within a few inches of the top.

From The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468 by Matthews, Washington