" Maggie, with deepening colour, went without hesitation to Mr Riley's elbow and looked over the book, eagerly seizing one corner, and tossing back her mane, while she said,— "Oh, I'll tell you what that means.
Under the hesitation of his projects, he had for some time kept himself in the background, and he felt that he should this morning resume his old position as a man of action and influence in the public affairs of the town where he expected to end his days.
But in the midst of his hesitation, opportunity came to decide him.
"I could not be expected to give her up," he said, after a moment's hesitation: it was not a case for any pretence of generosity.
Caleb Garth could see that there was a moment of struggle and hesitation in Mr.
I mean," she said, after a moment's hesitation, "that the people in our village are tolerably comfortable, and my mind has been too much taken up for me to inquire further.
Casaubon's purpose, which seemed to be clogged by some hesitation.
Dorothea, who had not been made aware that her former reception of Will had displeased her husband, had no hesitation about seeing him, especially as he might be come to pay a farewell visit.
Casaubon's generosity towards him, and also that she had been interested in his own hesitation about his career.
A person in the crowd, after some hesitation, said suddenly, "No comprenny!
" After a moment's hesitation, Strickland scrambled to his feet, and together they went to the Bouchée de Pain, where the hungry are given a wedge of bread, which they must eat there and then, for it is forbidden to take it away; and then to the Cuillère de Soupe, where for a week, at eleven and four, you may get a bowl of thin, salt soup.
I found him detestable, and as soon as he was out of danger I had no hesitation in telling him so.
He swung the satchel over his shoulder, carefully selected a stout stick for his wayfaring, and with no haste, but with no hesitation at all, he stepped across the threshold just as the Mole appeared at the door.
Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island.
It was already getting towards dusk when he reached the first fringe of trees and plunged without hesitation into the wood, looking anxiously on either side for any sign of his friend.
Reluctantly, and with much hesitation, did she then begin what might perhaps, at the end of half an hour, be termed, by the courtesy of her hearers, an explanation; but scarcely, within that time, could they at all discover the cause, or collect the particulars, of her sudden return.
Her dying so suddenly" (slowly, and with hesitation it was spoken), "and you—none of you being at home—and your father, I thought—perhaps had not been very fond of her.
Catherine, without hesitation, replied that she was very sure Miss Thorpe did not mean to dance at all.
Radcliffe," said Catherine, with some hesitation, from the fear of mortifying him.
Once they stood in a hesitation of ecstasy at the entrance of a narrow path between ranks of birches.
