161 adjectives to describe pauses

[One knocks, he rises after a little pause, and opens the door; enter Page.

Then ensued the briefest possible pause, in which a figure moved across the bars of light escaping through the chinks of the laboratory, and then the whole valley blazed with patches of vari-coloured fire.

After a slight pause, he replied, that he got his living on the water.

There was a momentary pause in the discussion, and Bibbs, thinking this a suitable opportunity for the delivery of his speech, stepped forward, and took up his stand in the doorway.

"You must give Gifford a dance," Kelson said, breaking up the rather awkward pause.

"It will be among the most memorable incidents of my reign that I welcome to my Court the first visitor from another world, or," he added, after a sudden pause, and with an inflection of unmistakable irony in his tone, "the first who has descended to our world from a height to which no balloon could reach and at which no balloonist could live.

With a detached, academic interest, my father glanced at the weapon, and, without perceptible pause, without added haste or deliberation, he continued to withdraw the hand he had thrust into his right coat pocket.

A solemn pause; this was more than any of us had bargained for.

And I'll tell you what," he added, after a thoughtful pause, "if you'll come to me the day after to-morrow, I will take that skin, and cut out a pair of shoes for myself, and you shall see how I do it, and everything about the making of them;yes, you shall do some part of them yourself, and that shall be your first lesson in shoemaking.

" "Ah! Mr. Marston," said Dr. Danvers, almost sadly, after a considerable pause, "when I saw you close beside me, my heart was troubled within me.

Yet in the frequent pauses of the light, When fell the drizzling thaw, or flaky snow; Or when the heaped-up ocean of still foam Reposed upon the tranced earth, breathing low; His soul was like a frozen lake beneath The clear blue heaven, reflecting it so dim That he could scarce believe there was a heaven; And feared that beauty might be but a toy Invented by himself in happier moods.

" An awful pause, a shiver, and a quick change of scene, indicated by a gurgling whoop, ending in a quacking: "'Wen de puddle-duck'e leave de pon', En start t' comb e fedder, Den yo' bettah take yo' omberel, Kase deys gwine tubbee wet wedder.'

" An embarrassed pause fell.

"Are you sure?" asked James Rice, after a painful pause.

"I have some letters to finish before post time," said Sir Timothy, after an impressive short pause of displeasure.

The harmonic pauses, or those which are peculiar to poetry, are of three kinds: the final pause, which marks the end of each line; the cæsural or divisional pause, which commonly divides the line near the middle; and the minor rests, or demi-cæsuras, which often divide it still further.

"Look here, Wildwood," said Marco kindly, arising after a reflective pause, "you think this thing over.

"An emphatical pause is made, after something has been said of peculiar moment, and on which we desire to fix the hearer's attention."Ib., p. 248; Hart's Gram., 175.

"This is very serious," said Ajax, after a significant pause.

" Her door at the foot of the stairs which led to the music room stood wide open, but both men came to an involuntary breathless pause outside it.

GLADSTONE (after a meditative pause begins to recite). "Come, thou who art the wine and wit Of all I've writ: The grace, the glory, and the best Piece of the rest, Thou art, of what I did intend, The all and end; And what was made, was made to meet Thee, thee, my sheet!" Herrick, to his shroud, my dear!

" There was a breathless pause.

"Ishgotb'witched, I b'lieve," pants Mr. McLAUGHLIN, whirling as frenziedly with his own lantern dangling behind him, and coming to an abrupt pause against the opposite wall.

"Dick has driven into Branchester," Edith Morriston said, perhaps to end an embarrassing pause.

But with his first step upon the Piazzetta he forgot the glory of the sunshine flashing over the blue waters, and a sudden sense of fate possessed him, as his father made an almost imperceptible pause in his grave progress toward the Ducal Palace, and with the slightest possible movement of his hand seemed to direct his son's attention to the great granite columns which bore the emblems of the patron saints of Venice.

161 adjectives to describe  pauses