15 examples of waverers in sentences

He then surrendered and was brought into Montreal, where the sight of him as a prisoner made a considerable impression on the waverers.

This utterance did not tend to encourage the seven waverers.

He was no longer the coward and the waverer.

She had now to trust to the valor and loyalty of the troops themselves, though thus deprived of their commander; and, as a last hope, she persuaded the king to go down and review them, hoping that his presence might animate the faithful, and perhaps fix the waverers.

Roederer, whom the strange vicissitudes of the crisis had for the moment rendered the king's chief adviser, though there seems no reason to doubt his good faith, was not a man of that fiery courage which hopes against hope, and can stimulate waverers by its example.

Topino took the waverer aside, and said: "This is not a trial, it is a measure.

[Fr.]; pliancy &c (softness) 324; weakness; timidity &c 860; cowardice &c 862; half measures. waverer, ass between two bundles of hay; shuttlecock, butterfly; wimp; doughface

It was no time for hesitation about purging out all traitors or waverers.

Mr. Croxton Smith's Waverer is also a dog of remarkably fine type.

'T is not we Denounce it, but the Law before all time: The brave makes danger opportunity; The waverer, paltering with the chance sublime, Dwarfs it to peril: which shall Hesper be? "Hath he let vultures climb his eagle's seat To make Jove's bolts purveyors of their maw?

Especially severe was he upon waverers, who, he said, were worse than downright enemies, as, while the one withstood the Parliament openly in fair fight, the others were shifted to and fro with each breeze, and none could say whether they were friends or enemies.

A Somebody, a Sahib, an English gent., one of the Ruling and Upper Class after being a fourpenny luncher, a penny-'bus-and-twopennytuber, a waverer 'twixt Lockhart and Pearce-and-Plenty.

Upon Sussex attempting to detach two chieftains, O'Reilly of Brefny and O'Donnell of Tyrconnel, who owed him allegiance, Shane flew into Brefny and Tyrconnel, completely overawed the two waverers, and carried off Calvagh O'Donnell with his wife, who was a sister-in-law of the Earl of Argyle.

All the waverers were decided, and all determined to throw in their lot with the victor.

Rory O'Moore,a man of no little address, who was personally clear of the worst stain of the massacres, and who had lately issued a proclamation declaring that he and his followers were in arms, not against Charles, but the Parliamentwas the principal speaker on this occasion, and his arguments appear to have decided the waverers.

15 examples of  waverers  in sentences