Skipper was unheeding of Jerry because of the fever that wrenched his flesh and chilled his bones, that made his head seem to swell monstrously, that glazed the world to his swimming eyes and made him walk feebly and
totteringly like a drunken man or a man very aged.
Bassett flexed his arm-muscles in quest of what possible strength might reside in such weakness, and dragged himself slowly and
totteringly to his feet.
Bulstrode, after a moment's hesitation, took his hat from the floor and slowly rose, but he grasped the corner of the chair so
totteringly that Lydgate felt sure there was not strength enough in him to walk away without support.