He teetered, lost his balance and fell off, making a tremendous splash as he hit the water with an inelegant bellyflop and an angry shout. |
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In the distance small hamlets teetered on mountain ridges, seemingly ready to tumble off their precarious perch. |
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I knew even then, I think, that my histrionics teetered on hysteria, but my self-conscious melodrama only angered me more. |
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As the teenagers tentatively waded into the brown muck, a skinny, worn-out alcoholic teetered over from his broken-down pickup. |
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We teetered on the edge of matchstick viaducts that bridged yawning chasms. |
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Alex's books fell and she teetered backwards and would have fallen if it weren't for an arm grabbing her by the waist. |
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People who were standing upon the land were either thrown backwards into the crowd, or teetered back and forth on the rising ground of the levee. |
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I watched it as it teetered back and forth, threatening to fall off in a most ungraceful fashion. |
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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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She teetered precariously before moving once again to position her feet solidly on the ground. |
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As the flower girl teetered down the aisle, scattering imaginary petals, Paul started to think about his future again. |
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Over the past 29 months, the family has teetered back and forth between several of the possibilities, convinced at times of one, then another. |
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I tugged again, and then as I stumbled, the suitcase teetered, and fell backwards, bouncing down the stairs to land at the bottom. |
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The clown clumsily teetered back and forth and vanished in a flash of colorful confetti. |
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Other countries with similar fiscal holes, such as Portugal, Spain, Ireland and even Italy, teetered. |
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New York City Opera, meanwhile, has teetered on the edge of extinction, its board and management accused of hard-heartedness and ineptitude. |
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His voice teetered on a high pitch between stability and insanity. |
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Not to mention the fallout from all of this upheaval: two periods of economic strife, the last of which teetered on financial annihilation. |
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Family hilarity teetered on the edge of hysteria as I chased a piece of A4 across a wheatfield. |
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The eurozone teetered on another brink, while the southern hemisphere powered ahead. |
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No liberal can justify a system in which huge banks' balance-sheets teetered on tiny amounts of capital. |
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It was in that atmosphere that the TSO teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. |
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As the livestock industry teetered on the edge of collapse, the Liberal Party chased its tail trying to find someone to blame for the BSE crisis. |
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The man took off his headphones and teetered across the street, oblivious to the signal which by then had changed to red. |
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Shares plummeted, fortunes were lost and several famous names teetered on the edge of bankruptcy. |
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Ever since he was a student, the life of Auguste Blanqui teetered between conspiracies against the monarchy and imprisonments. |
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The manouevre came dangerously close to spilling me entirely into the muck, but I teetered back and forth and finally came to rest still in the upright position. |
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Village shops continued to close while others teetered on the brink although community-owned shops, Internet retailing and home delivery schemes were becoming more popular. |
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After her set, Viva threw on her kimono and sat down next to me as a younger woman teetered onto the stage. |
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In the month since elections produced not one but two presidents, the country has teetered on the abyss of violence. |
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This is, of course, because the council stopped giving a toss at some point in the 1980s, and the place has teetered on the brink of closure ever since. |
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On the far wall, CDs teetered in jumbled piles, films, books and magazines were mixed up together in boxes and on shelves and clothes sat in haphazard heaps. |
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We teetered on the fence about buying getaway tickets and missed the opportunity. |
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When she looked at photographs of raging urticaria or furfuraceous rashes, she teetered between repulsion and captivation. |
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I reached the very edge, teetered, teetered, and fell featherlight into the astonished arms of an old lama who gaped open-mouthed at me as I appeared-it seemed to himfrom the sky itself, borne on the wind! |
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When that funding disappeared, many banks teetered on the verge of collapse, prompting the authorities in the countries concerned to put a cap on the use of such funding. |
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Only three years ago the two states teetered on the verge of nuclear war. |
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While gradually perfecting his art, he, for some time, teetered on the border between official art and the nonconformist art engraved with the individual signature of the thoughtful artist. |
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Holding them both in his upturned palms he stares from one value to the other, balancing them thoughtfully as if his hands were scales and they teetered with equal weight. |
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I haven't seen so much posturing since Miss World contestants teetered in front of a microphone to breathily claim all they want is world peace. |
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Finally, our country's most prominent bank teetered on the brink last year when its roaring trade in America, a combination of reckless leverage and unchaperoned hanky-panky, backfired. |
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Women teetered in stilettos and '80s glitter glad rags. |
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There were several occasions when we teetered on the brink of collapse. |
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The 2000 election in the United States brought home the potential significance of small numbers of votes in key states, when the outcome teetered for weeks on the uneasy fulcrum of the result in Florida. |
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Staggering under the one-two economic punches of Depression and drought, they teetered on the brink of debt default, and in Alberta's case actually went over the edge for a time. |
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Last year at COP13 in Bali, Indonesia the Canadian Youth Delegation was again an important force for positive change, engaging with the talks and standing up for a strong deal as things teetered on the edge of disaster. |
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