Since Dutch elm disease destroyed the elm 30 years ago, the large tortoiseshell butterfly has tottered on the verge of extinction. |
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The baby tottered to and fro like a blade of grass in the breeze, unevenly buttoned shirt flaps billowing wildly about. |
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With a heavy thud she slammed into the hat rack, which teetered and tottered before tipping toward her. |
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Spectators trained digital cameras and cellphone cameras on the structure and waited as huge cracks appeared and the building tottered. |
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He tottered blindly towards the bar like a camel making for an oasis after a hard day at the office. |
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All three pillars of the global economy have not tottered simultaneously for a decade. |
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The maid stood up shakily and tottered down the long dark corridor, towards the nursery. |
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Making sure no one saw her in such a weakened state, she tottered slowly toward her room. |
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I tottered home happily yesterday with nine books and will return for a second lot soon. |
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I tottered about the streets, grinning bitterly at perfectly respectable people. |
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I tottered out and was passed by a tour bus, a panzer-tank soundalike, belching fumes, its upper deck laden with day trippers. |
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The cart still tottered as it bumped along the Mourning Valley. |
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Then, struck by a dump truck, it tottered on its lip for a moment. |
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It's a strategy adopted by Denise van Outen, who tottered into Walford as duplicitous wheeler-dealering widow Karin. |
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The ancient man rose warily on stiffened limbs and tottered off into the inner chamber. |
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Two or three large bottles of beer and a couple of glasses of shochu later, we tottered out with farewells ringing in our ears. |
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Slowly, painfully, and creaking with age, he rose to his feet and tottered to a so-far unseen part of the cave. |
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In fact, as the team tottered into town late on Wednesday afternoon, its members didn't look at all like the healthy young athletes who had left Mountain Village on Sunday. |
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Adding to his already battered pride, he tottered back into the bedroom on unsteady matchstick legs, attempting to regain maybe a little of his lost composure. |
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Moving faster than she had thought he could, he tottered out of the room, and seconds later, another set of doors burst open and boys began flooding in. |
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Peter knew many weren't happy with the decision, and he watched with apprehension as one of the most elderly men in the village tottered up to the platform to speak. |
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After a while the passenger door opened, and an elderly lady tottered out. |
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Mr Lackersteen tottered after her, with a strange ataxic step caused partly by earth-tremors and partly by gin. |
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Stopping only to put on a few more branches, he tottered inside and sank down at the feet of the old hermit whom he could just see by the light of the fire reflecting into the cave entrance. |
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Three species of bird, the great auk, Labrador duck, and passenger pigeon are extinct, and the Eskimo curlew and the whooping crane have tottered on the brink of extinction for some years. |
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The mother-and-daughter duo tottered back onto the cobbles like a pair of evil twins, with sarcasm and surliness dripping from every one of their pretty little pores. |
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