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Unsteadily

adverb
1.
In an unsteady manner.  Synonyms: falteringly, uncertainly.  "The wounded soldier was swinging unsteadily on his legs"






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"Unsteadily" Quotes from Famous Books



... hands imprisoned again. "I will never do one of those things for anybody but you," he said unsteadily. ...
— The Green Mouse • Robert W. Chambers

... Elaine leaned in a sort of fascination at the awful sight. For a moment, I thought the very imp of the perverse had got possession of her and that she herself would fall over. She brushed her hand unsteadily over her eyes and staggered. I caught her just ...
— The Romance of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve

... and moaning and Hopalong slowly climbed out of the narrow bunk, unsteadily crossed the moving floor, and shook him. "Reckon he's in a stampede, too!" he growled. "They shore raised h—l with us. Oh, what a beating we got! But we'll pass it along ...
— Bar-20 Days • Clarence E. Mulford

... the meadow that lay all quiet and cool in the shadow of Pook's Hill. A corncrake jarred in a hay-field near by, and the small trouts of the brook began to jump. A big white moth flew unsteadily from the alders and flapped round the children's heads, and the least little haze of water-mist rose from ...
— Puck of Pook's Hill • Rudyard Kipling

... was ever so exquisite. The air was swooning, but how delicate its gasps, as if it fell away into calm! How adorably blue the sky in its debauch of sun-lit ether! The sea, too, although it reeled slightly, unsteadily rising only to fall away, what a radiance of color it maintained! Here in the garden the drowsy air would lift a flower petal, as some dreamer sunk in hasheesh slumber might touch a loved hand, only to let it ...
— In and Out of Three Normady Inns • Anna Bowman Dodd


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