Which preposition to use with hesitate
Avarabet hesitated for some time; examined the edges as well as the surface of the nails; drew his finger slowly over them, and then said,"You have a susceptible heart; you are in sorrow, but your affliction will soon have an end."
Kate, however, hesitated about remonstrating with him on his deepening moodiness, for she was not quite sure whether it was mad jealousy of Dick's favor in Rosa's eyes, or a secret purpose to attempt to fly from the gentle bondage of Rosedale.
This circumstance, and the peculiar pattern of the upper molars in Cainotherium, lead me to hesitate in considering it as the actual ancestor of the modern Tragulidoe.
W. hesitated at first, felt that it would not be an easy task to keep all those very conflicting elements together.
There was a momentary pause as each man, hesitating between a direct falsehood, the truth, and a plausible excuse, rather waited for the other to speak.
M. Pigot hesitated an instantany man would have hesitated before that awful risk!then, catching the handle firmly with his armoured hand, he drew it quickly out.
The pen hesitates on the word, for there is a respectable difference, measurable only on the scale of the half century, between a mob and a charivari.
"Mr. Gifford, youI" she hesitated as though at a loss how to put what she wished to say; "I have no right to ask you, who are a comparative stranger, to help us in thisthis worry, but if you cared to be of assistance I am sure you could.
Angy hesitated over the pillow-shams.
But hers were not the lips that were earnestly pressed on my hand, nor hers the voice that spoke, trembling and hesitating with stronger feeling than it could utter in words "I do thank you from my heart.
How few of the officers in your western armies, ever hesitate to march, at the head of their men, on a forlorn hope?
The little martins, always trustful, never hesitated from the first to fly into the cave and drink from the dripping water.
When a momentary oblivion stole upon her senses, her distempered imagination conjured up a thousand images of violence and falsehood; she saw herself in the hands of her determined enemies, who did not hesitate by the most daring treachery to complete her ruin.
Many of the men protested that their work was useless, unnecessary, unlawful even; but no one dared hesitate under the eyes of the major, when his father had once issued a serious command.
A little man hesitated outside the door when it was opened.
Nobody noticed in the noisy, flaring room that spool after spool on her frame fouled its thread and ceased turning, as the little figure left its post and hesitated like a scared, small animal toward the main exit.
After hesitating through May, in June Byron consented to meet Blaquière at Zante, and, on hearing the results of the captain's expedition to the Morea, to decide on future steps.
Thus it is very difficult to get a quick conception of the word "carriage," because there are so many different kindstwo-wheeled, four-wheeled, open and closed, and all of them in so many different possible positions, that the mind possibly hesitates amidst an obscure sense of many alternatives that cannot blend together.
Whereupon young Caddles, remembering his manners, did put them down politely and very carefully, and conveniently near for a resumption of their embraces, and having hesitated above them for a while, vanished again into the twilight ...
Aurore hesitates beside her chair, desirous of resuming her seat, even lifts her sewing from it; but tarries a moment, her alert suspense showing in her eyes.
Then I saw the advanced guard stop, hesitate beneath the balls which seemed to rain on them from the Place du Marché, and presently retire.
'Nothing else would make a jury hesitate after such a charge as that.