At the door, I must confess to hesitating a moment.

She hesitated a breathless instant.

Jervis hesitated a little, and then said that she believed Mr. Brown had not gone to bed yet; for he had been going over the cellar, and was making up his accounts.

She hesitated a second or two, and played with her chin; then, blushing slightly, she replied in a subdued tone, "County Galway, sir."

At such times archery was always the main sport of the day, for the Nottinghamshire yeomen were the best hand at the longbow in all merry England, but this year the Sheriff hesitated a long time before he issued proclamation of the Fair, fearing lest Robin Hood and his band might come to it.

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While she hesitated the young man came briskly up, swinging his cane.

" "Don't s'pose I could see him?" ventured the agent, still in hesitating tones.

They did not hesitate a minute, but flew straight away down the street to the place they had been before, to the place where the people often made pies of pigeons and were not ashamed to tell it!

But he is experienced in debate, quick in reply, fertile in resource, takes large views, and frequently compensates for a dry and hesitating manner by the expression of those noble truths that flash across the fancy and rise spontaneously to the lip of men of poetic temperament when addressing popular assemblies.

Perdosa hesitated a fraction of an instant.

"Yeyes," hesitated Johnnie; "but you mustn't get the idea that I don't love my workbecause I do.

It was about a minute after this, that the sober sorrel, who took no interest in what had occurred behind him, and a great deal of interest in his stable at home, started in an uncertain and hesitating way; and, finding that he was not checked, began to move onward.

"I hardly know what to tell you," hesitated Mrs. Albright.

"Didn't it strike you he sort of hesitated a li'l bit when he first seen uslike a man would whose breakfast didn't rest easy on his stomach, as you might say.

" She hesitated, her eyes seeking his, and then falling before his gaze.

The second point, clearly brought before us, is that a timid and hesitating policy, which leaves the initiative to the opponent and shrinks from ever carrying out its purpose with warlike methods, always creates an unfavourable military position.

But I have more than once heard it said that Wordsworth had not a genuine love of Shakspeare,that, when he could, he always accompanied a "pro" with his "con," and, Atticus-like, would "just hint a fault and hesitate dislike."

Persons judging hastily, by her violent assertions and vehement statements of her determination, as contrasted with Stephen's gentle, slow, almost hesitating utterance of his opinions or intentions, might have assumed that she would always conquer; but it was not so.

He spoke in a curious, hesitating fashion.

in a low, hesitating voice.

She passed only a few steps across the threshold, and stood there, a timid, hesitating figure, her dark eyes very anxiously searching the features of the man who had risen from his seat to greet her.

However that may be, the leaders hesitated for four days to come to blows; and while they were hesitating, the old favorite, not only of Louis the Debonair, but also, according to several chroniclers, of the empress Judith, held himself aloof with his troops in the vicinity, having made equal promise of assistance to both sides, and waiting, to govern his decision, for the prospect afforded by the first conflict.

I hesitated a confused and irresolute answer.

Their glances metthe boy hesitated.