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Meanings of stagger along in English

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Usage of stagger along in English
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How often have you seen a drunken man stagger along the street!
Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
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Your vision starts to blur as you stagger along the pedestrianised Queen Street.
Another life
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And in the day, as they stagger along the trail, they cry under their breaths.
Love of Life, and Other Stories
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So he rose from the sofa, and began to stagger along toward the door of the saloon.
Rollo on the Atlantic
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Their torches went out like matches, and they were left to stagger along in the black darkness.
The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay o...
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That day has not arrived; steel is in the saddle; and we stagger along under its terrible weight.
The new yorker
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He, Canute, felt as if thrown out of his wagon to stagger along there in the autumn cold.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian
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He found that he could stagger along, though his pace was necessarily slow and his course very erratic.
The Lost Valley
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To stagger along such a path, bearing a heavy burden, was well-nigh impossible, even for the stalwart soldier.
The Argosy, Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891
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He loaded himself with countless strings of hiaqua, by fifties and hundreds, so that he could scarcely stagger along.
Oregon, Washington and Alaska; Sights and Scenes for the Tourist
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I collected old George, who very decently volunteered to stagger along with me, and we hopped into a taxi.
Death at the Excelsior, and Other Stories
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If he doesn't want to know us, laddie, we just jolly well pull ourselves together and stagger along without him.
Love Among the Chickens
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Tess watched him stagger along the shore through the rain, the shadows of the weeping-willow trees at last swallowing him up.
Tess of the Storm Country
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I doubt that I could lift him-andI'm certain that if I could, I'd stagger along more slowly than he's crawling.
Axiomatic
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Though he was tired and weak, he could still stand up and stagger along if you held him tight.)
The Belfry
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Presently the sea rises, the masts bend, the ship begins to stagger along, groaning and creaking in every joint, under the severe pressure.
The Lieutenant and Commander / Being Autobigraphical Sketches of...
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United Kingdom
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