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When I reached the gate, it automatically swung open, and I tottled forward in too-big heeled boots onto the asphalt road.

Haunted Honeymoon Marta Acosta 2010

But she took the papers anyway, got to her feet, broke up the promenading poodles and tottled away, telling her dog, "Come on Killer Yap, I need to watch some old ER Clooney to relax."

Archive 2006-04-02 Miss Snark 2006

Alice had become Mrs. Augustus Cragin, and a little Alice tottled about the floor; but after supper, David still found his evening cigar on the oak stand, his needle-work slippers -- wrought by Alice's own hand -- in their place before the fender, and his big armchair rolled up close to the gas burner in the little back parlor at Cambridge.

The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

The last day at my house had tottled her faith, and her own married experience had finished the work.

Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete Marietta Holley 1881

My brain tottled, but righted itself with relief, for it wuz not Josiah; it wuz probable some other woman's husband.

Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881

Josiah sez, as a woman passed by with her hat drawed down over one eye, and a long quill standin 'out straight behind more'n a foot, an' her dress puckered in so 'round the bottom, she couldn't have took a long step if a mad dog wuz chasin' her -- to say nothin 'of bein' perched up on such high heels, that she fairly tottled when she walked.

Samantha on the Woman Question Marietta Holley 1881

Mebby them walls didn't stand so firm as the others did, and tottled more now and then.

Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881

The last day at my house had tottled her faith, and her own married experience had finished the work.

Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 1 Marietta Holley 1881

Nevertheless, she set the baby on the floor, who tottled out, and was seized by Glory, standing there in the dark entry, and pressed close in her poor, long-wearied, faithful arms.

Faith Gartney's Girlhood 1865

When weary with sewing and reading, I strolled to the poultry-yard, and heard Maum Nelly's stories of how twenty fine young turkeys had just tottled backward and died so; or how the minks and chicken-snakes had sucked half the fowl-eggs; or see her stuff pepper-corns down the young turkeys 'throats and pick the pip from the old fowls.

Recollections of a Southern matron, 1838