But the eyes of Beltane were sad and his tongue unready, so that he stammered in his speech, looking ever upon the ground; then, suddenly up-starting to his feet, he strode before the hut, while Ambrose the wise looked, and saw, yet spake not.

"The keys were given up by the janitor yesterday," I managed to stammer at last.

" "Whatwhat do you mean by all this?" said the boy, stammering with passion.

But Georgenot" Donnegan began to laugh, and the gambler stammered to a halt.

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.

He ran to Johnson, and exclaimed in 'a kind of flutter,' "Well, you acquitted yourself in this conversation better than I should have done, for I should have bowed and stammered through the whole of it.

"The father must likewise have recognized this, for as we passed out he stammered into my ear: "'You see, Doc, the girl's mad.

My pen stammers like my tongue.

He means the stammer of Redcap, which he intends to imitate.

The sublimest canticle to be heard on earth is the stammering of the human soul on the lips of infancy.

"You mean," I stammered beneath my breath, "that her faith has gone, but that the terror has remained?"

Happy would some friend near him be to hear the half-tender, half-witty, yet most appreciative conceit which should first come stammering from his lips.

But Peter considered his audience, and his thought stammered on his tongue.

"Good-day, friends," he replied, stammering as though for lack of breath.