"What one does question is whether she saw a man or a figment of her imaginationsome effect of the shadows that momentarily suggested a man.

To enable the soldier to note errors in pointing, the weapon will be momentarily held in position after the fall of the hammer.

He complimented her on her taste, bought the waistcoat and, going to the rear of the shop, returned wearing it with a momentarily appreciated show of jaunty swagger.

Miss Thorne was still smiling, but again the vague, indefinable shadow, momentarily lifted, darkened her eyes.

In the ecstasy of adoration he had momentarily forgotten his purpose here.

Two hundred yards from the drift into which she had jumped there was a turn in the road, where some trees shut off the sight, and the deacon's anxiety increased momentarily until he reached this point.

The momentum of the weight and also of the beam itself falling through the space through which it has been deflected, has necessarily to be counteracted by the elasticity of the beam; and the beam will, therefore, be momentarily bent to a greater extent than what is due to the load, and after a few vibrations up and down it will finally settle at that point of deflection which the load properly occasions.

Tragedy was just offstage in Jersey Girl, momentarily held at bay by sex and love and hope.

She had been momentarily unstrung and was in haste to be gone and to be alone.

The question of money was what chiefly stood between them; and now that this was momentarily disposed of by Van Degen's offer she looked at Ralph more kindlyshe even felt a return of her first impersonal affection for him.

It was nearly eight o'clock before he came and Paula, who was momentarily expecting John's arrival by then, was in an agony of impatience to sign his papers and get him out of the house again.

Momentarily anyhow.

Her self-control, slackened by the momentarily held belief that it was not needed, had snapped.

His own terror, which had never more than momentarily receded since she had first spoken to him from the doorway, was, he realized, gone; replaced by an inexplicable thrilling confidence that he had won his victory.

" He then related, that, in the midst of his horror at the sight, he heard sounds of yet more terrible acts, from the top of the cliff; and, momentarily strengthened by fear of he knew not what, for he believed that death had already grasped his own poor shattered frame, he managed to crawl away, unperceived, into one of the numerous caverned holes which perforate the foot of the steep.

No,it is a picture,the picture of a moment between one animal that sees the impending fate, and another that has not yet caught it;it is human that such moments interpose between two oceans of agony, that man can momentarily control the rush of a sea which the brute must yield to.

Hanging to it was a complicated tangle of brown ropes, and the eyes of one of the brutes that had hold of him, glaring straight and resolute, showed momentarily above the surface.

Something black fluttered momentarily against the livid yellow-green of the lower sky, and then the thin and penetrating voice of a bell rose out of the black gulf below him.

But the teams at plough are growing momentarily distincta breath of air touches the cheek, then a leaf breaks away from the bough and starts forth as if bent on a journey, but loses the impetus and sinks to the ground.

The subject never recurred to his mind without momentarily changing the current of its thoughts, and tinging all his feelings with an intensity of bitterness that it was painful to bear.

One row of benches was occupied by a solemn group of white-bearded patriarchs who looked as if they had momentarily paused on a pilgrimage to Mecca.

"May we say anything about the writ?" Judge Babson paused momentarily in his flight.

As they fought their way out of the doorway Charley Still, of the Sun, grinned at "Deacon" Terry, of the Tribune, and jocosely inquired: "Say, Deac., did you ever think why one calls a judge 'Your Honor'?" The Deacon momentarily removed his elbow from the abdomen of the gentleman beside him and replied sincerely though breathlessly, "No!

Caput's momentarily returning self-possession forsook him.

Momentarily I expected either of them to blurt out, "Where are you from?"