Your words have helped the tottering to stand, and you have strengthened feeble knees. Al-Muwaffaq's regency was thus a continuous struggle to save the tottering Caliphate from collapse. The figure of Nahum is an old, bearded man with weathered face and tottering posture. The government was seen as weak and tottering, and chances for its revolutionary overthrow promising. With Vienna itself in revolt, the Austrian Empire was tottering. Irma, finding her social throne tottering, sends for Andrew. He was tottering, incapable of defense, when the bell rang. The tottering Dhaka Nawab Estate was brought under the Court of Wards in September 1907. The Bahmani dynasty was, however, already tottering to its fall. Cut off from public opinion, Nicholas could not see that the dynasty was tottering. It's the only thing that would have saved the fleet of tottering old wrecks. What lies behind this tottering flight of steps? Bowling first, the Indian pace attack struck early to leave Zimbabwe tottering at 33/3. The A's had McNally tottering in the second inning. Liz arrives and saves the tottering situation, announcing that she too is travelling to Africa.