Didn't you ever read Rollo on the Atlantic?" Dotty, who could only stammer over the First Reader at her mother's knee, was obliged to confess that she had never made Rollo's acquaintance.

The mechanic looked up with a start at the deep voice of the stranger, but he managed to stammer forth his tidings.

I've never been beat to the draw, but they's some that's shot so close to me that it sounded like one gun going offwith a sort of a stammer.

Lamb was one of the Deputy-Grecians from whom the Grecians were chosen, but his stammer standing in his way and a Church career being out of the question, he never became a full Grecian.

But to save me that's all I could stammer out'Oh, because ...'" "Well," said Ajax, encouragingly, "the best of us may be confounded in love and war.

She heard him stammer something about the escape of the mice; she heard him asking her pardon.

How now, Visus, is your heaven at a stay, Or is it his motus trepidationis that makes him stammer?

" This is not only the most elegant but most politic way of writing that a poet can use, for I know no defence like it to preserve a poem from the torture of those that lisp and stammer.

of balancear, balanced, swayed, swaying. balancearse, to sway, totter, reel. balbucear, to stammer.

"That's what I said," replied the other; "that's plain English, isn't it?" Hardy looked at him in bewilderment; then, as the captain's meaning dawned upon him, he stepped forward impulsively and, seizing his hand, began to stammer out incoherent thanks.

It was not like Jimsy to hesitate and stammer in this way.

" Her neighbor looked dazed and tried to stammer out an apology, but she never sent Annette to a beer saloon again, and in course of time she became a good temperance woman herself, influenced by the faithfulness of grandmother Harcourt.

With almost a stammer, he said: "I beg your pardon, I thought it was my sister I heard behind me.

Anyway, all he said was to stammer: "Eryes, Missno, Miss.

asserted Judith, beginning to stammer again.

' The landlady was too much astonished to reply; Miss Rodney's tones and bearing had so impressed her that she was at a loss for her usual loquacity, and could only stammer respectfully broken answers to whatever was asked.

she managed to stammer.

" The young man tried to stammer out that he did not come on any such errand; but his wits were bewildered by this unexpected siege, and he could not frame a suitable reply.

Look at the reports; the bulletins are confused; the commentaries are entangled; the latter stammer, the former stutter.

The only thing that made him different from other men was that he had the fear of epileptic attacks for ever hanging over him; and further, he was unfitted for society owing to a very painful and violent stammer.

He gave the impression of great courtesy and simplicity; but his stammer was an obstacle to any sense of ease in his presence.

I do not remember that his stammer was nearly so apparent, and he had far more assurance and dignity, which had come, I suppose, from his having been welcomed and sought after by all kinds of eminent people, and from having found that eminent people were very much like any other people, except that they were more simple and more interesting.

"Bein' a carpenter" Geake began to stammer apologetically, and in a totally different tone.

After remaining for some time in this attitude, the cacique raises his head, as though he were awakening from sleep, and, lifting his eyes to the heavens, begins to stammer some incoherent words.

He did not stammer, nor was there other impediment; only this preternaturally rapid outpouring on occasion, from a man usually quiet.