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Examples
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Beating their breasts, with tott'ring limbs they press'd.
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834
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Still to the last kind Vice clings to the tott'ring walls.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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'A tott'ring fence, a bowing wall thought myself ere since the fall. '
The Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa The African Equiano, Olaudah 1789
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That Giddy, like himself, the tott'ring Mansion reels!
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Hast travel'd with clos'd eyes and tott'ring gait,
Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete 1265-1321 Dante Alighieri 1293
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Hast travel'd with clos'd eyes and tott'ring gait,
The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Complete 1265-1321 Dante Alighieri 1293
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Hast travel'd with clos'd eyes and tott'ring gait,
The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Volume 3 1265-1321 Dante Alighieri 1293
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Thrice i'rom my trembling hand the patch-box fel The tott'ring China shook without a wind;
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements ... 1812
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How long will yeagainft a man plqt mifchief? ye lhall all Be flain: ye? as a tott'ring fence
The Psalms of David, in Metre: Tr. and Diligently Compared with the Original Text and Former ... 1793
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And, tott'ring, fends the Dame, to meet my taunts:
The miscellaneous poems of J. Cawdell, comedian. To which is annexed An answer to a compilation ... 1785
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