For a few minutes he lay there chattering and laughing, and then, with an awful scream, and before any of his companions could prevent, he
staggered to his feet and leaped overboard.
This idea, growing, appeared to give him strength--a new and revivifying purpose--so that for a time he no longer
staggered; but went forward steadily with head erect.
Maximilian tried to speak, but he could articulate nothing; he
staggered, and supported himself against the wainscot.
La
staggered forward, reeled, and fell across Werper in a swoon.
They all staggered along, Gerald still clutching the dressing-case, and supported on the other side by an excited and somewhat incoherent villager.
They staggered along down the lane, climbing once over a tree which lay across the lane and far into the adjoining field.
It yielded so suddenly at last, that he
staggered back upon me, and I
staggered back upon the opposite door, and we both laughed.
At last I could go no further; I was exhausted with the violence of my emotion and of my flight, and I
staggered and fell by the wayside.
For once in her life Miss Cornelia was undeniably
staggered.
Barnaby was beside him when he
staggered to his feet.
Look at the sailor, called the mincer, who now comes along, and assisted by two allies, heavily backs the grandissimus, as the mariners call it, and with bowed shoulders,
staggers off with it as if he were a grenadier carrying a dead comrade from the field.
Then came pealing through the air a bugle-call that froze my blood - "IT IS I, SOLDIER - COME!" I turned; Cathy was flying down through the massed people; she cleared the parapet at a bound, and sped towards that riderless horse, who
staggered forward towards the remembered sound; but his strength failed, and he fell at her feet, she lavishing kisses upon him and sobbing, the house rising with one impulse, and white with horror!
