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It may always be observed that when hunting-men speak seriously of their sport, they speak despondingly. Everything is going wrong. Perhaps the same thing may be remarked in other pursuits. Farmers are generally on the verge of ruin. Trade is always bad. The Church is in danger. The House of Lords isn't worth a dozen years' purchase. The throne totters.
Give me an overcoat pocket full of lower-case interrogation marks and a medical report to run to, and I can speak on the matter of science and advancement till Reason totters on her throne. But food and oysters do not alone affect the great, pregnant future.
In a mournful voice, AEneas, seeming to forget that Hector was dead, inquired why he had been so long absent from the defense of his native city, and from what distant shores he had now returned. "O goddess-born! escape by timely flight, The flames and horrors of this fatal night. The foes already have possessed the wall; Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall.
A gentleman makes a desperate rush and grabs the handrail; his foot slips on the asphalt or wood, which is like oil, he slides, his hat totters; happily he recovers himself and gets in. In the block the 'bus is stayed a moment, and somehow we follow, and are landed "somehow" advisedly. For how do we get into a 'bus?
Her deep voice just at my ear startled me. "Well, Mr. Canby," she said softly. "Your dream-castle totters." I glanced up at her quickly, but she still smiled. "It has fallen," I groaned. "No not yet," still cheerfully. She paused a moment, and, leaning her elbows on the balustrade, looked out down the valley. "All will be well," she said at last slowly. Our glances met.
No longer great nor terrible, he flies, or rather totters, from before his serene opponent he shudders he stutters and hiccups in his howlings his limbs are tremulous his hands shake as if with palsy his eye is lustreless and bloodshot, and his ghastly countenance the exponent of death.
If it but carry him to the Paraguay, it may drop down dead on the river's bank, for aught he will want, or think of it afterwards. Thus free from solicitude about his dumb companion, he spurs and flogs the poor creature to the best speed it is able to make. Not much this; for every now and then it totters in its steps, and threatens going to grass, in a way different from what it might wish.
"Here is the city," said one, with a Gascon accent; "three hundred more blows with the whip, and one hundred with the spur; courage and vigor!" "The beast has no more breath he shivers and totters; he will not go on; and yet I would give a hundred horses to be in my city before nightfall." "It is some Angers man out late," thought Bussy.
Will he never return; has she lost him, her only son, the hope of her future, the blessing of her existence? At last, on the third day, she sees him coming; pale and exhausted, he totters toward her, and yet his bearing is defiant, and his eye sparkles. She hurries forward with extended arms to meet him.
The long shadows from the dark curtains stretch out and engulf her. She feels their dark touch, like a visible presence of evil, she shivers all over. The cold damp air of the chill room comes to her like wafts of deadly poison. She cannot breathe; a convulsive tremor passes over her. She totters to the door, and leans for support against the side.
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