wabbly

Mrs. Porter's first all-alone effort was printed in wabbly letters on the fly-leaf of an old grammar.

Gene Stratton-Porter: A Little Story of The Life and Work and Ideals of "The Bird Woman" 1926

He, however, still felt a little "wabbly," so the boys and girls had conferred together, deciding that an automobile trip was just what he needed to complete his recovery.

The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys Laura Lee Hope

If, for some reason, the uprights are "wabbly" the frame may be stiffened by lashing diagonal cross sticks to the frame.

Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Daniel Carter Beard 1895

But, of course, I didn't know she cared enough for him to cry over his picture, and it gave me the queerest feelings to see her do it -- kind of wabbly ones in my legs, and strange, sinking ones in my stomach.

The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors William Dean Howells 1878

"I started to get out of bed and see for myself, only I found I was kind of wabbly, and thought better of it.

The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys Laura Lee Hope

A thatched roof that leaked in every heavy shower leaned to a wabbly ridge-pole over the floor.

CHAPTER XIII 2010

To keep within his schedule he compromised on a second-class passage, which, because of the rush, was worse than steerage; and in the late summer, a pale and wabbly man, he disembarked with his eggs on the Dyea beach.

THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN 2010

As a rule no attention was paid to such recommendations, anyhow, and it only made the jury look wabbly.

The Financier 2004

His ideas were the popular delusions of twenty years before; his mind steered a wabbly and anaemic course in the wake of the daily newspaper editorials.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

Sometimes, one of these legs gets wabbly, may break in half, and we have the other two to lean back on, to carry us through the unstable times.

Transitions and Tripods barbylon 2001