with an unsteady gait

Elias pushed himself out of his chair and walked with an unsteady gait to my decanter, which he was displeased to find spent.

Hunched over, shoulders rounded, he staggered on with an unsteady gait, his strides as long as he could make them without exciting suspicion.

WITH an unsteady gait, Sam Avalos trudged toward the ski lift in Breckenridge, Colo., his crutches leaving marks outside his footprints in the soft snow.

He retreated hastily to a position on the main drive, and began in a deep roar, coupled with an unsteady gait, the following ditty: I am a Soldier A jolly British Soldier; You can see that I'm a Soldier by my feet . . .