Tottering

An old man came tottering along.

The whole power structure is tottering.

"You don't mean to say," I cried, in amazement, "that that tottering, feeble old woman was able to get out of the cab while it was in motion, without either you or the driver seeing her?"

The colt was finally able to stand and followed tottering after its mother.

Of course, there were dedicated reformers, ardent revolutionaries and hardened nationalists among them, too, and fearful governments tottering on the edge immediately accused them of causing all the trouble and of grasping at impossible theories of government or being manipulated by foreign enemies.

Its faint descent tried the powers of the horse to keep back the car, and so feeble were his totterings that I began to fear we should miss the train[…]