Whopping big fortune, now teetering this way, and now teetering that, tipping over on the Hero at the last and smothering him in an avalanche of fifty-dollar bills?
This naturally impeded our progress; but there was more in the teetering than that.
I pursued her from tree to tree, and ever she eluded me, peeping back at me with kindly eyes, making soft sounds, and dancing and leaping and teetering before me just out of reach.
He saw me, but ignored me, turning his attention to Broken-Tooth, who was still teetering slightly and involuntarily on the end of the branch.
Oswald was teetering the trunk in the old familiar way, with one ear fastened to its shiny side.
I don't think so," said Bland, teetering a little as he stood.
He was clambering up over the logs like a wet cat before either Ike or I, teetering across the crooked, wobbly cordwood, had stumbled half the distance to the "stern.
Now with the news that Boone Wellver, a young and "wishful" member of the Gregory house, meant to seek a place under the teetering clock tower of the court house, anxieties began to simmer.
Its simple machinery had rusted; its tracks ran askew with decay upon their warped underpinning of teetering struts.
A teetering stage, with a rack behind for light baggage, drawn by a pair of lean horses, waited beside the station.
I cal'late you never give a thought to how high the teetering top of a mast on such a vessel as the Sally S.
And we're really teetering on the edge of financial ruin, eh?
If he wasn't teetering on the verge of bankruptcy, he'd never let me outgame him," Pennington replied gayly.
But my dear boy," Sinclair protested, "while that sort of philanthropy is very delightful when one can afford the luxury, it is scarcely practical when one is teeteringon the verge of financial ruin.
Before we had had time enough to take this marvel all in, Daniel the Mystic put his foot on Jack and stepped right up on his stomach, balancing himself and teetering gently above all our heads.
It arrived on schedule--two hours of teetering on the edge of hell and cursing myself for putting the guns beyond my reach.
Another shift of direction and the Doc was teetering up a narrow canyon between high mountain walls.
Cause it isn't any fun teeteringand tautering all by yourself.
So Bunny and Sue told all that had happened, from the time they had been teetering until they were let out of the carpenter shop after Mr. Reinberg had heard them calling through the broken window.
I could tell from his faraway stare that he was teetering on the verge of panic.
The long, trusting relationship we'd shared was now teetering on the brink.
Hanged if he didn't force his horse right on to his haunches, slide down the whole length of the bank and ride him across a teetering plank on to the steamer.
I know not how far I had walked, my head bent in thought, before I felt the ground teetering under my feet, and there was the bayou.
Its queer teetering is like that of some of the wrens, accentors, and water-thrushes.
Uncle Marius came toward them, teetering on his toes, the way he always did.
Occasionally he takes to the air, and flies from one tree to another; teetering his body and jerking his tail, in an indescribable fashion, and chattering all the while.
In particular, I should like to know the origin of his teetering habit, which seems to put him among the beach birds.
Teetering from his heels to his toes, a grin on him like the slit in a post box, he stood there as calm as if he'd never come nearer murder than to spell it in the fourth grade.
The chief nodded, a slight, Mandarin-like teetering of his head, which gave the impression of a polite agreement in a matter that didn't interest him.
Well did he remember her vague reminiscence of the teetering sea, that did not slope exactly as the floors of the unknown, abandoned, old house among the French-like mountains.
One broad haunched end hovered within an inch of the soil, all along to the point of teetering contact; but yet touched not the soil.
Kamerading" properly with uplifted paws, however, was rather too much for his balance, at least while teetering on the edge of a condensed milk case which was itself sliding about the deck of a careening destroyer.
On she cum a teetering along as genteel as a bobalink in a wheat lot.
When she wildly clutched her virgin bathrobe about her and passed a man in the hall, he stalked calmly by without any of the teetering apologies which broad-beamed Mr. Sessions had learned from his genteel spouse.
Teetering on his toes and watching the effect of it all on her, he lighted a large cigar.
As he rocked he watched the water ouzel teetering on a rock in the river, joyously shaking from its back the spray which deluged it at intervals.
It seemed eons ago that he had had time to watch the kingfisher flying to his nest or the water-ousel ducking and teetering sociably at his feet.
