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Many would probably prefer to be only a short walk from the office in the morning and a drunken stagger back from the bars at night.
We stagger round with the Platonic idea that we can love only one other person.
A consequence of this stagger on the x-ray diffraction pattern would be a marked enhancement of the 1.1 and 2.2 reflections.
I kept expecting someone to make up the stagger on me, and pull alongside, but it never happened.
I felt surprisingly smooth and relaxed as I rounded the first turn and found myself making up the stagger on the runners on my outside.
In the Atrium there is a huge glass window overlooking the Arcade where you can sit and watch the world and his wife stagger by.
He also welcomed plans to stagger parking bays along the one-way road to create chicanes to slow vehicles.
Porters stagger towards the First Class under a mountain of smart packing cases and trunks.
Young people, many of them still at school stagger out of the pub, intoxicated, paralytic from drinking too much alcohol.
Also, try and stagger the toenails on each side of the board, rather than placing all of them on one side.
City pubs are often now full of roaring fools, building up enough Dutch courage to stagger into the nearest fleshpot.
So, why is it not possible to stagger half term and summer breaks for maybe a week by county?
On returning a drunken someone would make it back to the door, fling it open and stagger through it, forgetting to shut it at all.
Flag yourself after a few cosmopolitans and carefully stagger your way home.
I lurch out of the door, point myself unsteadily in the direction of my student house, and stagger through the empty streets.
Not everybody wants to go out, get legless and stagger into a nightclub because there's nowhere else to get a drink after midnight.
Democracies sometimes stagger into problems whose solution stretches and even breaks the normal rules of democratic legitimacy.
In design terms it's a dog's breakfast, a grey, smudgy mess that seems to stagger off ancient presses each week.
For instance, a light hit might glance off an opponent's armor, while a stronger or critical hit will stagger your enemy.
The round caused him to stagger back slightly, but the wound simply healed and the bullet was pushed out.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Else why should the bearers stagger, as they tremulously uphold the coffin?
The stagger was partly due to his grogginess, and partly due to the Coriolis forces acting within the spinning ship.
The women of to-day carry the dead load upon their backs, and literally stagger beneath the accumulating burden of the ages.
Men in the habit of drinking kawa neither stagger about, nor speak thick and loud, when under its influence.
Twice they were driven to their knees, only to stagger on as the convulsions lessened.
Mr Vladimir did not stumble, did not stagger back, did not change his stride.
Some are still in a state of inebriety, and stagger as they stray about the decks.
His Brownings opened up and he saw the Stuka stagger and swerve as he thundered past in a hissing dive.
Let us be ballasted with grace, that we be not blown over, and that we stagger not.
In honeycomb and other stagger wound coils the capacitance is more evenly distributed.
The gig shaft ran right into the chest, making him stagger back with a cry that I shall never forget.
To show himself independent of me, he would start and stagger through with his hymn in the most discordant manner.
Weave crabapple branches throughout for added texture, and stagger candles nestled in pebble-filled votive holders for ambience.
Fain am I to stagger to this emprise under the weightiest words of the dictionary.
In turn, jerkingly raised and lowered by the rolling billows, the towing resistance of the log caused the old reelman to stagger strangely.
She saw De Launay stagger again and felt that she was about to faint.
Later, she used to stagger from one hammock to another and swing them.
I stood as long as I could stagger to the hopper with grain.
She thumps and lurches, and they stagger together, feeling sick.
But at last he managed to stagger out on the bank and deposit his unwieldy load.
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