tottering

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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Staunton felt itself the mark of the gods, a mournful Rome, an endangered Athens, a tottering Carthage. — The Long Roll, Mary Johnston
Lord bless you! you know how fond I am of you, and always was since you was a little tottering thing, and couldn't say my name right. — The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance., Thomas Peckett Prest
He likewise assumed the censorship, and made it his principal concern, during the whole of his government, first to restore order in the state, which had been almost ruined, and was in a tottering condition, and then to improve it. — The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete, Suetonius

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