Fanny Mann tottered off to her room, returning with a pair of open-toed red heels for Constance.

NEWYORKER: Shauntrelle

While old regimes tottered on the continent, this radical trio spurned what they deemed tired formulas upheld by the Royal Academy.

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At New York's Fashion Week, women tottered on 4-inch heels through the snow to get to the tents to see designers' newest collections.

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While debt investors have been giving Spanish government bonds an extra sniff and property firms have tottered, the banks have appeared to be Teflon-coated.

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She tottered to her feet, hoping that Alex would leave soon.

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Longleaf unloaded the theater chain as it tottered toward bankruptcy.

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Suzie stepped in, tottered at the shock of cold, forged on up to her knees, then with a shriek plunged and swam the crawl with strong strokes into the glittering path.

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" Yet it had been so difficult and so often had the start-up tottered on the edge of failure that another of the venture capitalists lamented, "The suffering and anxiety I experienced I would not repeat for a fortune.

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But all the debate over the architecture, the politics, the morality is irrelevant to the likes of Mr. Cunningham and the other old boys who tottered along to meet the queen, leaning on walking sticks or being pushed in wheelchairs, many with relatives proudly holding black-and-white photographs of them when they were young and brave-hearted.

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