52 Verbs to Use for the Word hesitation

It may not be generally known to your readers, perhaps, that the first iron bridge in England was projected at, and cast from, the furnaces of Colebrook-Dale, and erected over the Severn, near that place, about the year 1779; and, considering it to be the first bridge of the kind, I feel little hesitation in stating it to be, even now, the most beautiful one.

"If I have shown any hesitation, 't was on your account, not on my own.

"Tell me what you want, Loneli," Kurt encouraged her, when he saw her hesitation.

When they heard that Leonore had come to introduce them to her uncle, they were a little scared, but Leonore understood their hesitation and declared, "Just come!

Lorenzino, noting his hesitation, called Michaele into the room crying, "Here is Scoronconcolo the Assassin, and I am Lorenzaccio the Terrible!"

The other, however, appeared to notice neither his hesitation nor the name which he had seen fit to assume.

When they considered that public opinion was sufficiently "prepared," they launched their deadly gases and their flaming liquids; and we needed a long time, needed also to overcome our moral hesitation, to make sure of our defence and our reply.

The mention I had made of the Minister of Finance, however, seemed to cause him considerable hesitation.

" The baker observed her hesitation, and this increased his suspicion.

You've come to clear away my doubts, to end my hesitation.

My visit to this dull and uncomfortable place was (as you rightly surmise) not without its objecta little bit of wicked romance; the pretty demoiselle of Rouen, whom I mentioned to you more than oncela belle de Barraswas, in truth, the attraction that drew me hither; and I think (for, as yet, she affects hesitation), I shall have no further trouble with her.

The glance of cruel meaning which the tyranness, after having examined the lithe, twisted rod critically for an instant, cast upon the object of her malice, probably banished the last lingering hesitation from the breast of the latter,who turned away ostensibly to the performance of her accustomed duties, but in reality to settle the details of a crime unsurpassed in coolness and resolution by aught recorded of pirate or highwayman.

But the quick children detected a hesitation in her manner of saying the oft spoken words, and had hopes, if only Mr. Buxton would persevere in his invitation.

Several times she exhibited hesitation, and once or twice muttered something that was unintelligible to him.

He appealed, therefore, to the sober judgment of all, whether the situation of Jamaica was such, as to justify a hesitation in agreeing to the present motion.

Henry alone knew no hesitation.

" He wondered whether Cartwright did see and thought he had remarked his hesitation; the old fellow was very keen.

The recent consolidation plan in the United States has removed the only hesitation I had in sustaining this new enterprise, for I feared that I might unwittingly injure, by a counter plan, those it was my duty to support.

"Respect her maiden hesitation.

On the 7th of April following Mr. McLane presented his credentials to President Juarez, having no hesitation "in pronouncing the Government of Juarez to be the only existing government of the Republic."

He bore with us, and knew well the day would come when, with increasing knowledge, there would come increasing hesitation in pronouncing too hastily on the problems we had to face; and he knew well that day would come if there was anything in us at all.

Frances would interpret hesitation as endorsement, and encouragement might be the last thing that could help her.

But then a difference showed; gradually the tone increased in volume, the words came faster, fluency succeeding hesitation, and now his voice was high and searching, while his easy, masterful gestures laid their old spell upon the people.

The knowledge of our nescience as to the psychical condition of our first thinking ancestors may suggest hesitation as to taking it for granted that early man was on our own or on the modern savage level in 'psychical' experience.

The stranger, on his part, looked a very unchivalrous hesitation; but this proved to be only a doubt of Sylvia's capacity as a walker.

52 Verbs to Use for the Word  hesitation