For a moment, the ship was toppling; as it rolled forward, it righted.
Slowly the ship toppled and slid below the waves.
But if part would not yield, then all must perforce bend: even as Temeraire stopped his roaring and went flashing by, the whole ship turned away, driven broadside to the wind, and slowly toppled over onto her side.
If the ship toppled instead of going up, thought Leeming wryly, the whole lot of them would race for sanctuary with burning backsides.
The ship toppled again.
The sea waters fled, the ships foundered and toppled, the wall of the city crumbled.
He recalled stories of the Big Quake of '31 when nine ships had toppled.
At the local pier, a ship, named Romanoff, toppled over onto a wharf due to large waves produced by the hurricane.
At least it was on the upper side after the ship toppled.
It made me dizzy to look at-as if the giant white ship might topple onto my head at any second.