Roswell was deeply reluctant to protract his stay in the group; but professional pride would have prevented him from deserting a consort under such circumstances, had not a better feeling inclined him to remain and assist Daggett.

" Polly departed, leaving her mistress cosy in bed and strangely reluctant to rise and part company with her waking thoughts.

Geoffrey had been exceedingly reluctant to have his young cousin take the long journey alone though she had laughed at his fears and his wife had abetted her in her disregard of possible disastrous consequences, telling him that women no longer required wrapping in tissue paper.

In vain did the perplexed lover ask for time to clear himself, declare his respect for Miss Ellen and his willingness to give every explanation which she might require; the father was not to be put off; and though excessively reluctant, Mr. Horner had no resource but to show the letters which alone could account for his strange discourse to Ellen.

If they suffer from a lack of understanding, this is not, I gather, likely to be removed by the airmen themselves, for they have evidently imbibed some of the spirit of our Navy and are magnificently reluctant to talk about their achievements.

Rather bashfully than angrily reluctant, her hands sought to be withdrawn; her shoulder avoiding my reclined cheekapparently loth, and more loth to quarrel with me; her downcast eye confessing more than her lips can utter.

Great gates of brass, richly and delicately wrought, turn heavily upon their hinges, as if proudly reluctant to admit the feet of common mortals into this most gorgeous of sepulchers.

Scarcely less reluctant to repeat the scolding she felt so acutely than to employ the methods of rebuke she deemed less severe, I had no little difficulty in evading her entreaties.

The invasion continued well into the month of March in the general direction of Petrograd, while to the south Austria, at first seemingly reluctant to join the German incursion into helpless territory, also invaded the Ukraine on the pretense of "restoring order.

Prudence, now quite certain of his sanity, felt sorely reluctant to let such impudence go unpunished.

He was so eager to buy because Cave was so oddly reluctant to sell.

'Well,' said Mr. Van Torp, looking at her, 'I should think you did!' There was real admiration in his tone, though it was distinctly reluctant.