The Major, however, had always been something of a thorn in the side of various Headquarters, and seldom hesitated to speak his mind both to, and of, Colonels and Generals and Staff officers generally.

Won't you tell me yours?" She hesitated momentarily.

While George Cannon was paying the driver, Sarah and Hilda hesitated awkwardly on the pavement, their hands occupied with small belongings.

From this project, if he really ever seriously entertained it, Henry was, however, at once dissuaded by his minister; who, less blinded by passion than himself, instantly recognised its enormity when proportioned to the offence which it was intended to punish; and consequently he did not hesitate to represent the odium which so unjust a measure must call down upon the head of the King.

Preach first of all to your knowledge, and say to it: If you draw near this truth, you will have much faith; wherefore do you hesitate to use it?

he murmured, and the masterful voice was strangely hesitating, and the masterful arms about her were wonderfully gentle, "Antheado youlove me?"

Charras assuredly would not have hesitated.

But the American sealer rarely hesitates.

Fortunately for the progress of liberty, the civic bodies, as if they had been providentially warned of the future in store for them, never hesitated to accept from their lords, civil or ecclesiastical, conditions, onerous though they were, which enabled them to exist in the interior of the cities to which they belonged.

Daffy-down-dilly hesitated a moment or two, but finally confessed that he had run away from school, on account of his great dislike to Mr. Toil; and that he was resolved to find some place in the world where he should never see nor hear of the old schoolmaster again.

" Senator Langdon hesitated doubtfully, half turned toward Carolina, Randolph and Norton, who had followed him, and again faced Haines.

" "Or it may be (stand still directly, Miriam, and let met get this paint off your ear)or it may be, for aught we know or can help, born with a hard, proud, wicked heart, that may show itself in bad actionscruelty, deceit, or even" she hesitated, drearily.

"And why?" She hesitated a moment and then burst out in a flash of feeling: "Because I knew that a wretched dancing girl was going to be there with" "Yes?" eagerly.

But she hesitated habitually, by nature, as another is by nature vivacious or brunette.

He hesitated with it halfway to his pocket, then decided to open it.

It seemed strange to me that this should be so in a building large enough for twenty, and I hesitated hopefully, thinking he might remember some small room in which he might put me for the night.

" A moment Brown hesitated impotently; then of a sudden he came forward swiftly and extended his hand, first to one and then to the other.

It is possible that a reminiscence of what had happened in Egypt caused him to falter at the last; and that, quite independently of the proceedings of Villeneuve, he hesitated to risk a second battle of the Nile and the loss of a second army.

" Carteret hesitated involuntarily.

So much depends on the man, that with one in whom I have less confidence than I have in you, I might justly hesitate.

Then the PRIEST said, "Those of our order, when they first heard such relations, called them visions, then fictions; afterwards they insisted that the man had seen spectres, and lastly they hesitated, and said, 'Believe them who will; we have hitherto taught that a man will not be in a body after death until the day of the last judgement.'"

"Laurelly," the nurse hesitated, "I wouldn't name it to ye whilst ye was a-sufferin,' but I jest cain't find the baby's clothes nowhars.

He did not hesitate to shoot, whether legally or illegally, those who were insubordinate, thus restoring military discipline, the first and last necessity in war.

No matter how threatening the termites might be, the human beings must not hesitate.

I remarked, after another dead pause, during which it was very apparent that he was laboring with something to which he nervously hesitated to give utterance.