61 examples of haltingly in sentences

She told Gray, haltingly, reluctantly, that she thought she must give up the reading and studying for a time.

he cried, haltingly, as anger overcame his astonishment.

" She spoke haltingly, but Pearl knew what was in her heart, and her quick imagination painted in the details of each picture.

General Dyer has been haltingly blamed, and his evil genius Sir Michael O'Dwyer entirely exonerated because Englishmen do not want to leave this country of fields even if everyone of us has to be killed.

"Nothingany use" he began haltingly.

"Don't you see," she explained haltingly, "I can't go away.

He talked with Imber, haltingly, with throaty spasms.

The poor thing went haltingly enough now, and every few minutes stopped and looked around piteously into his master's face.

He told us haltingly that the smoke we had seen came from a scene of fighting somewhere to the eastward of Louvain.

"Red Head," his face now red, after looking beseechingly at the ceiling, then pitiably at the floor, began very haltingly: "F-u" Immediately an impulse to raise hands went through the class, but the teacher checked it, and poor "Red Head," though he knew that each letter he added only took him farther out of the way, went doggedly on and finished: "r-t-h."

I nestled close to her, and, with her arms round me, she haltingly told me who my father wasa great man, a fine gentlemanhe loved me and loved her very much; he was going to make a great man of me: All she said was so limited by reserve and so colored by her feelings that it was but half truth; and so I did not yet fully understand.

The right followed haltingly, sagging at hip and knee.

"I don't mean that," she said rather haltingly.

"It's true," she went on haltingly.

The sallow fingers of Time had touched her lightly, more as a warning than as a prophecy, painted with a reluctant brush a deeper tone into the shadows, a higher note in the lights, had brushed in haltingly the false values that now mocked at her. Time!

[She goes, haltingly, and disappears along the road to Hamelin.

" Haltingly Emily told her tale.

Then very haltingly at first, but afterwards more easily, he began to tell of the thing that was hidden in his life, the haunting memory of a beauty and a happiness that filled his heart with insatiable longings, that made all the interests and spectacle of worldly life seem dull and tedious and vain to him.

RELATIVITY This crude analogy haltingly conveys what is meant by curved time.

" "So I did," answered Yolanda, haltingly.

Her hands were clasped at her breast; her face was as pale as a gray dawn; her breath came in feeble gusts, and her words fell haltingly from her lips.

Hymn-of-Praise Busy waited a moment or two until the clattering of the pewter died away in the distance, then he edged a little closer to the table whereat Mistress Charity seemed still very busy with the fruit, and said haltingly: "Didst thou really wish to go, mistress ... to leave thy fond, adoring Hymn-of-Praise ... to go, mistress? ...

" He drew a chair close to her and sat down "Thou knowest, my sister," he began, haltingly, "how I hate the house of Estenega.

He alone had been able to reveal the troubled Ultima Thules of the soul; low whisperings of thoughts, avowals so haltingly and murmuringly confessed that the ear which hears them remains hesitant, passing on to the soul languors quickened by the mystery of this suggestion which is divined rather than felt.

The reply came haltingly, after a pause.

61 examples of  haltingly  in sentences