"Hesitatingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sir," he said, hesitatingly. "You rather pooh-poohed the matter this morning, if ...
— The Masquerader • Katherine Cecil Thurston
... at the card through his eyeglasses, and leaned towards me hesitatingly. "And what was your ...
— Memories of Hawthorne • Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
... too, after her first nervousness, found great pleasure in the motor; but to Kathleen it was the first of a series of new enjoyments, for Denis Quirk hurried his mother on from one dissipation to another—concerts, theatres, even dances. Hesitatingly, Mrs. Quirk accepted his advice to try them; but, having once found pleasure in the evident enjoyment they gave Kathleen, she willingly went wherever Denis advised her. In this way the household at "Layton" ...
— Grey Town - An Australian Story • Gerald Baldwin
... thought would be amusing, so amusing that the moment she set foot on the street pavement she felt that the joy of living was yet strong in her. With a roll of music in her hand, she walked on rather hesitatingly, a little afraid, like a bird just escaped from the cage where it was born; her heart beat, but it was with pleasure; she fancied every one was looking at her, and in fact one old gentleman, not deceived ...
— Jacqueline, v3 • Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc)
... moment at his beaver hat, and took it off. Then the other two did so to their firm-fixed caps. And with an impulse that came from no one could tell whom, the three spoke—the first time hesitatingly, the next time together ...
— Christmas - A Story • Zona Gale
... large for him, and which his scarf caused to rise up. He was a very respectable man who had amassed a decent fortune from the sale of iron bedsteads; yet how could I bring myself to think that this embarrassed-looking, ill-dressed, timid little creature could, with a word hesitatingly uttered, unite me in eternal bonds? Moreover, he had a ...
— Monsieur, Madame and Bebe, Complete • Gustave Droz
... not; many of the later years have proven disastrous in the extreme," he admitted, hesitatingly. "You will pardon me, sir, if I decline to discuss misfortune. Ah, Monsieur Kirby! I have been awaiting you. Have you met with this young man who came aboard at Fort Armstrong? I—I am ...
— The Devil's Own - A Romance of the Black Hawk War • Randall Parrish
... I said, hesitatingly Flora had left the room a moment before, and now she put her head in at the door and called Angus. My Uncle Drummond and I were ...
— Out in the Forty-Five - Duncan Keith's Vow • Emily Sarah Holt
... women in the dining-room and, chaffing him merrily on his want of appetite, ate a substantial meal herself. Mrs. Dermot, anxious to befriend him, had thought that she could help him by inviting him to bring Mrs. Norton to tea with her that afternoon. When during tiffin he hesitatingly conveyed ...
— The Jungle Girl • Gordon Casserly
... toward a powder-train. Bub Quinn, meanwhile, stood rooted before the girl, while Joe, having possessed himself of the fallen fan, met her coquetry with blandishments of the most undisguised nature. At length, hesitatingly, deprecatingly, she took Quinn's plate, but at the same time she moved along on the bench and offered Joe a seat. He promptly took it, and Quinn went away with the calmness of a ...
— Peak and Prairie - From a Colorado Sketch-book • Anna Fuller
... she answered. "The truth is," she continued, hesitatingly, "I was afraid you had persuaded Ninitta to sit for the Fatima, you know you said once that she was the only model in Boston who ...
— The Philistines • Arlo Bates
... Mr. Stiggins hesitatingly, after a few moments' deep thought, 'perhaps she recommended me to the care of the man of wrath, ...
— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens
... the elevator after this crisp instruction, and was wafted up to his rooms. The hall man moved hesitatingly down the building's three steps to the sidewalk. One never knew exactly what young Devon was getting at. Still, if he really wanted ...
— The Girl in the Mirror • Elizabeth Garver Jordan
... at her invitation, into her parlour, I desired to know if she were acquainted with a young country clergyman of the name of Brand. She hesitatingly, seeing me in some emotion, owned that she had some small knowledge of the gentleman. Just then came in her husband, who is, it seems, a petty officer of excise, (and not an ill-behaved man,) who owned ...
— Clarissa, Or The History Of A Young Lady, Volume 8 • Samuel Richardson
... an Austrian uniform," said Bubbles hesitatingly; then she continued, in that voice which was hers and yet not hers, for it seemed instinct with another mind: "He says, 'My love! My love, why ...
— From Out the Vasty Deep • Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
... he didn't see me,' replied the wanderer hesitatingly, adding, 'I was afraid the others ...
— Story-Lives of Great Musicians • Francis Jameson Rowbotham
... hesitatingly, with a quick and frightened glance at Mon. "It may have been. I do not know. He died without the consolation of the Church. It is ...
— The Velvet Glove • Henry Seton Merriman
... carry it home," said the lady hesitatingly. "I wonder ef some of your folks won't be going up our way ...
— Frank's Campaign - or the Farm and the Camp • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... grateful. Colin'—hesitatingly, 'I did think you'd have come and looked after an old friend at the big Show in the Botanical Gardens when the Governor made his ...
— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed
... made the best of it, Thelamis was much ashamed of his stupidity. "I have," he said hesitatingly, "two other pastilles which have the same magic properties as those I used before. Let me cut off your heads again, and that will put matters straight." The proposal sounded tempting, but was a little risky, and after consulting together we decided to let things remain as they were. "Do not ...
— The Grey Fairy Book • Various
... historical destinies of the North of Gaul, claim such structures as their own. Even in still more distant places, in the South of France, in Scandinavia, or Germany, where similar monuments have been discovered, they may, though more hesitatingly, be classed as Celtic, particularly if they are found near the natural high roads on which we know that the Celts in their westward migrations preceded the Teutonic and Slavonic Aryans. But the case is totally different when we hear of cromlechs, cairns, ...
— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller
... afraid I can't," she returned hesitatingly. "I had such a lightning-like glimpse of it. Still, in a general way, it was very swarthy and wrinkled—quite ape-like. The lower part was covered with a short, curling, sparse black beard; the eyes were like"—she searched for a simile—"like ...
— The Paternoster Ruby • Charles Edmonds Walk
... said this, Madeleine opened a desk, and placed upon it a sheet of note-paper, a gold pen, and an inkstand. Then she paused, and said, hesitatingly,— ...
— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
... luck," and McDonald put out his hand, which the other took hesitatingly. The next instant he was in the saddle, and with a wild leap the startled mustang rounded the edge of the bluff, ...
— Molly McDonald - A Tale of the Old Frontier • Randall Parrish
... Carleton, we had better stop," she said hesitatingly. "I don't believe your enmity is so ungenerous as to wish to cause me unpleasantness. You surely are convinced now that I am not afraid of you, so ...
— The Range Dwellers • B. M. Bower
... eyes regarded him steadfastly. "Two of my ancestors were delegates to the first Convention," she said hesitatingly. "One of 'em lived in a log farmhouse with loop holes in it. They used to shoot Indians—" she paused and looked at Charlie Jackson, then went on. "I—I like ...
— Lydia of the Pines • Honore Willsie Morrow
... dear father, that Ludwig makes very good shoes," Roschen said at last, speaking hesitatingly, and in a voice so low that it was little ...
— An Idyl Of The East Side - 1891 • Thomas A. Janvier
... not know it would offend you," replied the young girl, in a meek voice. "Do not the others call you by that name?" she inquired hesitatingly. "Mr Stebbins ...
— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid
... to the idea of its introduction." "The earliest instances with which I have met," writes Lea, "occur in the Veronese code of 1228, and the Sicilian constitutions of Frederic II in 1231, and in both of these the references to it show how sparingly and hesitatingly it was employed. Even Frederic, in his ruthless edicts, from 1220 to 1239, makes no allusion to it, but in accordance with the Verona decree of Lucius III, prescribes the recognized form of canonical purgation for the trial of ...
— The Inquisition - A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church • E. Vacandard
... looked hesitatingly at the superintendent, who was stroking his chin with his hand. Foyle murmured an assent and led the way back to the detention room. The woman swung round to him quickly once they ...
— The Grell Mystery • Frank Froest
... say adieu," said Dorothy, as she offered him her hand through the bars of the gate. John raised the hand gallantly to his lips, and when she had withdrawn it there seemed no reason for her to remain. But she stood for a moment hesitatingly. Then she stooped to reach into her pocket while she daintily lifted the skirt of her gown with the other hand and from the pocket drew forth a great ...
— Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall • Charles Major
... themselves in Ghostie's room." Belle Helene proffered the statement rather hesitatingly, and no wonder, in a house where "les amies de mes amis sont mes amies" was the rule. It took more than that to offend Clive, ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley
... hesitatingly, "was n't it awful? How small, Seymour, are our quarrels in the face of that!" pointing out into the darkness,—"such a tremendous catastrophe ...
— For Love of Country - A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... figure came into view in the doorway-Giri Bala! She was swathed in a cloth of dull, goldish silk; in typically Indian fashion, she drew forward modestly and hesitatingly, peering slightly from beneath the upper fold of her SWADESHI cloth. Her eyes glistened like smouldering embers in the shadow of her head piece; we were enamored by a most benevolent and kindly face, a face of realization and ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda
... you think?' asked Willie, a little hesitatingly; 'should I plant one of my ships too, so that they may ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various
... is it?' said Denis, hesitatingly, as if he half doubted such extent of ignorance as not to know the person ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 2 • Charles James Lever
... Beckmesser to come forth and begin his song. The young people assembled hail this elderly candidate with veiled scorn, and Beckmesser, painfully clambering to the eminence where the candidates are requested to stand, hesitatingly begins his lay. The words, with which he has had no time to become familiar, are entirely unadapted to his tune, so he draws them out, clips them, loses the thread of the verses, and fails in ...
— Stories of the Wagner Opera • H. A. Guerber
... from her muff, stole out half-hesitatingly towards him. Julien took it in his and raised it to his lips. Then he looked ...
— The Mischief Maker • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... family circle, and not meeting his host and brother there, as he naturally expected, expressed his surprise at the circumstance, and inquired the cause of his absence. But, perceiving that the subject gave pain to Mrs. Elwood, who deemed it prudent but to repeat, as she hesitatingly did, what her husband had told her, that he had gone out, soon to be back, the former forbore any further inquiries or comments, and soon retired to rest, wishing her a good-night and ...
— Gaut Gurley • D. P. Thompson
... the remark I made was a very harmless one. And you forget, dear, that I am different to you and Mary—that words about some things, though spoken in jest, may hurt me very much." After a while she continued hesitatingly— "I am sure that neither of you will return to the subject when you know how I feel about it. I shall never love again. To others my husband is dead, but not to me; his place can ...
— Fan • Henry Harford
... in Paris?" asked Besenval, hesitatingly, and with a searching glance of his cunning, dark eyes, directed to the ...
— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach
... rather stay at home? But she naturally did not put into words this vague recollection of what he had said about these—yes, these Trepells. "It's an odd name, and yet it seems familiar to me," she said hesitatingly. ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... first," said Gwen. But for all this reassurance the old lady was clearly uneasy. "With regard to the boy Michael," said she hesitatingly, "did you happen, ma'am, to see the boy Michael.... I ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... me," Corydon continued, hesitatingly—"but I'm always imagining things about people. And he seemed to me to have such possibilities. He has—how shall ...
— Love's Pilgrimage • Upton Sinclair
... human beings were in their vicinity, in that ocean of wilderness, had deepened the flush on the blooming cheek and brightened the eye of the fair creature at his side; but she soon turned with a look of surprise to her relative, and said hesitatingly, for both had often admired the Tuscarora's knowledge, or, we ...
— The Pathfinder - The Inland Sea • James Fenimore Cooper
... done all I could," she replied, hesitatingly. "I have been quite wretched about it myself; but what could I do? I told your friend Mr. Warden there was nothing in reason I would refuse to do; but his ideas were so impracticable they ...
— Brought Home • Hesba Stretton
... not be as bad as she seemed under those particular circumstances," Sheila said hesitatingly. "If she had come here—had come here first and you and Aunt Prue had ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper
... one word more I would say, although I do not wish to influence you," Mrs. Orton Beg began hesitatingly. ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... doesn't look like sunshine," said Oliver Saffren hesitatingly, stating a disconcerting but incontrovertible truth; "it only seems to look like it because—isn't it because it's so much brighter than the rest of the picture? I doubt if paint CAN look like sunshine." He ...
— The Guest of Quesnay • Booth Tarkington
... her eyes sweeping across those numerous manly faces surrounding them. "Why, really, Lieutenant Brant, I scarcely see how I possibly can. I have already refused so many this evening, and even now I almost believe I must be under direct obligation to some one of those gentlemen. Still," hesitatingly, "your being a total stranger here must be taken into consideration. Mr. Moffat, Mr. McNeil, Mr. Mason, surely you will grant ...
— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish
... began Sara, hesitatingly, "it does not signify to me, or to any of those who care for you; you are such a gentle little creature, we forget it all in time. But perhaps with strangers, especially with men, who think so much about ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
... few paces hesitatingly, and, looking wondrous hurt, said in a deprecating voice: "Ghur-r-rh, eu-h-h! I have been a friend to you, Lone Bull, even a Brother in solitude; and now at the word of a stranger, a silly Cow, who having done some wrong has been outcasted from her ...
— The Outcasts • W. A. Fraser
... last morning, a fine morning flushed with the new life of the world that trembles hesitatingly in the spring of the year, and steeps the hearts of men and women with stronger hope and wider ambition; such a morning as draws a veil over past failures and disappointments, and floods the future with success and achievement. It seemed a pity ...
— The Brown Mask • Percy J. Brebner
... exactly alike, and that while many, we may believe most, would cheerfully obey this unwritten law of love, and share and share alike, others would give in to it—if they did give in, for, let me again emphasise, there was no compulsion upon any—more grudgingly and hesitatingly. ...
— Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters • George Milligan, J. G. Greenhough, Alfred Rowland, Walter F.
... Ten minutes passed, but there was no sign of Louis. Mr. Bundercombe sent another and more imperative message. This time Louis obeyed it. As he crossed the room a little hesitatingly toward us, it was almost sad to notice the alteration in his appearance. At Luigi's he had been so smart, so upright, so well dressed. Here he was a changed being. His hair needed cutting; his linen was no longer irreproachable; his clothes ...
— An Amiable Charlatan • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... in a little while and left them, going to the porch to look for his bundle and his book. They were gone. He came back, standing hesitatingly in the door. ...
— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden
... of pretty flower-like misery, her delicate cheeks white, a hunted look in her baby eyes. A great pang of pity went through the man, hurting him physically. She gave him a limp hand, and sat down on a saddle-bag sofa, while he stood hesitatingly before her, balancing himself first on one leg and then on ...
— Septimus • William J. Locke
... 's too bad!" exclaimed the landlord, and, for want of words of comfort, he hesitatingly held out his hand, but recollecting himself, he was drawing it back, when Mr. Meredith, forgetful of rank, caught ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford
... what you think of were ever to come to pass," said the wife, hesitatingly, "would it matter so much? She will have enough for both and one cannot be ...
— Stories of Childhood • Various
... inconvenient to take me to board?" he hesitatingly inquired of Mrs. Hershey. "I shouldn't think of wishing to intrude. There is a hotel ...
— Tillie: A Mennonite Maid - A Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch • Helen Reimensnyder Martin
... hesitatingly. The hour, for aught she knew, was nine, eleven, or even midnight. She was ...
— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett
... Negro and Gregoire's evidences to the contrary. The pamphlet no doubt had some effect for, "As to Bishop Gregoire," says he, "I wrote him a very soft answer. It was impossible for doubt to have been more tenderly or hesitatingly expressed than there was in the Notes on Virginia and nothing was or is further from my intentions than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion where I ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 • Various
... now drew back, all save the mother, which advanced hesitatingly to where the caribou stood with lowered head, watching every move. Suddenly the cow charged, so swiftly, furiously, that the old wolf seemed almost caught, and tumbled away with the broad hoofs striking savagely at her flanks. Farther and farther the caribou drove ...
— Northern Trails, Book I. • William J. Long
... said hesitatingly, and rather distressing. Do you know, Leithen, I think you were wrong about—about what I spoke to you of. You said there must be one of three explanations. I am beginning to think ...
— The Moon Endureth—Tales and Fancies • John Buchan
... little speech there was a ring in his voice dangerously near a sob or a tear. It is on such occasions that Mr. Gladstone's sonorous and splendid diction and delivery come most to the front; beginning a little awkwardly, hesitatingly, he warmed as he went along, and there came to him the strange power of collecting his thoughts and measuring his language which long years of Parliamentary training has made a second nature. The House listened—rapt, hushed, spellbound. And ...
— Sketches In The House (1893) • T. P. O'Connor
... his hand on her shoulder as she knelt before him. "Good land of love, girl, what made you do it? Why should a girl like you give a hundred thousand dollars for my Valley of the Giants? Were you"— hesitatingly—"your uncle's agent?" ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne
... to go any farther. She hesitatingly stopped. A deep shame and repentance came over her when she thought of the noble confidence Anna had shown, and which she was now on the point of ...
— The Daughter of an Empress • Louise Muhlbach
... great scheme," he said hesitatingly. "I suppose last night it occurred to you that it was just a trifle—eh?—just a trifle vulgar?" he ...
— The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... them," replied Edna, hesitatingly. "O, please, auntie, I won't eat any the next time either. Please shut me up, and feed me on bread and ...
— A Dear Little Girl • Amy E. Blanchard
... brothers went out a few minutes ago," said Madge, hesitatingly, "and I don't know if ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds
... And yet the 13th Article of the Union stared them all in the face, forbidding the hideous assumptions now made by the general government. Perhaps no man living fully felt its import save Barneveld alone. For groping however dimly and hesitatingly towards the idea of religious liberty, of general toleration, he was denounced as a Papist, an atheist, a traitor, a miscreant, by the fanatics for the sacerdotal and personal power. Yet it was a pity that he could never ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... age," said Endymion hesitatingly; "I am not afraid about that, for from the life which I have led of late years, I know a good deal about the House ...
— Endymion • Benjamin Disraeli
... twisted the large seal ring which he wore on his forefinger. "Then what do you mean," he said hesitatingly—"what do you ...
— Mr. Opp • Alice Hegan Rice
... unsophisticated to remain unmoved by this reasoning. She felt a little thrill—she longed to continue the subject, and yet dared not. She turned hesitatingly to the Count, and for the next ten minutes Lord Bracondale only saw the soft ...
— Beyond The Rocks - A Love Story • Elinor Glyn
... squire," he said hesitatingly, "we carriers be ready.... 'Tis an hour or more down to Minster ... walking with a heavy burden I mean.... If your Honor would give the order, mayhap we might nail down the coffin lid now ...
— The Nest of the Sparrowhawk • Baroness Orczy
... the bright, flushed face, and thought how little the dear child knew about all these matters, and how little patience poor Ester, who was so competent herself, would have with Sadie's ignorance, and said, slowly and hesitatingly, ...
— Ester Ried • Pansy (aka. Isabella M. Alden)
... Esmond. They haven't been riding all their lives for nothing," Jondo agreed, as Esmond Clarenden turned hesitatingly ...
— Vanguards of the Plains • Margaret McCarter
... recaptured and mysterious fugitive. "There," he cried triumphantly to Sophy, who, standing against the wall with her face buried in her frock, long refused to look up,—"there,—tame as a lamb, and knows me. See!" he seated himself on the floor, and Sophy, hesitatingly opening her eyes, beheld gravely gazing at her from under a profusion of shaggy locks ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... or entreaty, and sealed the envelope with a bang of her tiny fist—and even then he did not awaken. Lucy wrote carefully, wrestling to turn the implacable one from his purpose and yet feeling that he would have his will. She sealed her note and put it upon his desk hesitatingly; then, as Kitty turned away, she dropped her handkerchief beside it. It was a time-worn strategy, such as only the innocent and guileless think of in their hour of adversity. When she ran back to recover ...
— Hidden Water • Dane Coolidge
... public conveyance then running between Chalons-sur-Marne and Paris sat down one of its outside passengers at the first post-station beyond Meaux. The traveler, an old man, after looking about him hesitatingly for a moment or two, betook himself to a little inn opposite the post-house, known by the sign of the Piebald Horse, and kept by the Widow Duval—a woman who enjoyed and deserved the reputation of being the fastest talker and the best maker of ...
— After Dark • Wilkie Collins
... and hesitatingly). From pedestals white snowy columns rise Of ivory, draped in softly whispering silk, That arched, and all immaculate, stretch up,— The swelling pillars of her ...
— The German Classics, v. 20 - Masterpieces of German Literature • Various
... you in mind all along," Henriette hesitatingly replied. "I thought you might be willing to assist me with your advice, perhaps with ...
— The Downfall • Emile Zola
... Bowman, hesitatingly. "We have a joint investment. I don't think, however, that we shall remain connected long. He doesn't suit me. He is ...
— The Erie Train Boy • Horatio Alger
... Tree Carol that rose outside, of how sweet Mary, the Queen of Galilee, besought Joseph to pluck the cherries for her Babe, and Joseph refused; and the voices of the singers, that had begun hesitatingly, grew strong and loud ...
— Widdershins • Oliver Onions
... "Well!" said Gracie, hesitatingly. It was a favorite phrase with her, as it is with many people when they don't know what ...
— Ester Ried Yet Speaking • Isabella Alden
... mean," he said, hesitatingly, "to speak uncharitably, but we all know that Episcopacy is the handmaid ...
— The Voice • Margaret Deland
... be responsible for some of the disagreement," interrupted Mr. Cresswell, hesitatingly; "I'm afraid Miss Smith does not approve ...
— The Quest of the Silver Fleece - A Novel • W. E. B. Du Bois
... hesitatingly. "Somehow, I don't quite understand how, it gives me the impression of a tidal flow or ...
— The Runaway Skyscraper • Murray Leinster
... us the right to be of service, Mr. Hayne. If there is anything we can do that you need, or would like—" hesitatingly. ...
— The Deserter • Charles King
... a favor to ask," stammered Wixon, hesitatingly. "It don't mean much to you, but it means a good deal to others. Bein' penned up on a poor-farm, with nothin' except three meals a day to take up your mind, is pretty tough on them as have seen better days. I'll leave it ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... holding forth as usual on his favorite doctrine, suddenly turning to a stranger who had somehow got crowded into the Amen corner, said: 'My brother, when were you predestinated to eternal salvation or eternal damnation?' To which startling inquiry the stranger, terribly embarrassed, hesitatingly answered: 'I don't adzactly remember, Parson, but I think it was ...
— Something of Men I Have Known - With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective • Adlai E. Stevenson
... different! She remains maternal through her grief, with motherly thoughtfulness for others; for to the real mother (how different in this to the lover!) there will always remain in the world some one to think of. She bridles her sorrow; when John at last hesitatingly suggests that they must not stay all night on Calvary, she turns quietly homeward; and, once at home, tries to make the mourners eat, tries to eat with them, makes them take rest that dreadful night. For such a mother ...
— Renaissance Fancies and Studies - Being a Sequel to Euphorion • Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
... hesitatingly. "Tell me," he said, coming a bit nearer; "tell me . . . will you be sorry if ...
— Beatrix of Clare • John Reed Scott
... that I want to do anything especially proper or improper," she hastened to assure him. "I have n't either the cravings or the ambitions of the new woman. That, again, is where I 'm selfish. I'd like to be"—she spoke hesitatingly—"I'd like to be ...
— The Triflers • Frederick Orin Bartlett
... Geoffrey, isn't it?" she asked. Her father was Geoffrey Meade's cousin—a little boy when Geoff died, "Was he as beautiful as that?" she said, gently, putting her hand over mine that held the velvet case. And then, after another pause, she went on, hesitatingly; "Cousin Mary, I wonder if you would mind if I told you whom he looks ...
— The Militants - Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
... certain unassured, deprecating humorousness, hinted that if Captain Ahab was pleased to walk the planks, then, no one could say nay; but there might be some way of muffling the noise; hinting something indistinctly and hesitatingly about a globe of tow, and the insertion into it, of the ivory heel. Ah! Stubb, thou didst not ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville
... hesitatingly, "that what I said seemed intrusive, though of course it was not meant ...
— The Pagans • Arlo Bates
... think of it, Peter," she said, hesitatingly. Then, fearing that he might have spoken on the impulse of the moment, and that she was showing herself too anxious for his help and Lucy's, she drew herself up. "But—well, this is home, and I don't fancy I ...
— The Making of Mona • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... unfortunately expressed surprise at its luxuriance in such a position. "Why should you be surprised?" he asked, suddenly turning upon me with much displeasure in his manner. Not a little disconcerted, I hesitatingly answered that I had imagined the bay-tree required more and greater warmth of sunshine than it could find there. "Pooh!" said he, much offended at the slight cast on his beloved locality, "what has sunshine got ...
— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope
... hesitatingly. "Mr. Audley is a very agreeable young man, and a very honorable young man; but you know, Sir Michael, I'm rather a young aunt for ...
— Lady Audley's Secret • Mary Elizabeth Braddon
... akin to yourself," he said in low tones, "only developed, enormously developed; a Master in your own peculiar region, and a man whose influence acting upon you at close quarters could not fail to arouse the latent mind-storms"—he chose the word hesitatingly, as though seeking for a better he could not find on the moment,—"always brewing in you just ...
— The Centaur • Algernon Blackwood
... hesitatingly, "I know a doctor—one of the really good men. He has a free clinic, and I've no doubt he would take you in if ...
— Damaged Goods - A novelization of the play "Les Avaries" • Upton Sinclair
... with the circumstances surrounding her. The old dog, lying on the grass at the bottom of the steps, looked up at her and flopped his tail upon the ground. Mrs Null called to him in a cheerful tone and the dog arose, and, hesitatingly, put his forefeet on the bottom step; then, when she held out her hand and spoke to him again, he determined that, come what might, he would go up those forbidden steps, and let her pat his head. This he did, and after looking about him to assure ...
— The Late Mrs. Null • Frank Richard Stockton
... R.G.A. officer came down the steps and, not noticing me in the dim candle-light, asked in hurried tones: "Excuse me, sir, but could you identify an artillery officer who said he was coming here? He stopped and asked me some extraordinary questions ... and"—hesitatingly—"you have to be careful talking to people in ...
— Pushed and the Return Push • George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)
... had the phlegmatic brain of her people, was stupefied for a little time, then, recovering some vivacity, she inquired hesitatingly as though she was never at her ease ...
— The Son of Clemenceau • Alexandre (fils) Dumas
... working moodily in the twelfth bunker when his friend arrived. He looked up with a start. Then, seeing that the other was alone, he came forward hesitatingly. ...
— The Clicking of Cuthbert • P. G. Wodehouse
... hesitatingly, apologetically, as if he hated to bring the matter up. "Mr. Devant, ... you remember, sir, a long time ago Larsen sued ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various
... said, rather hesitatingly, 'I was a Navy man—a lieutenant— not so very long ago, but I had the misfortune to lose my ship under circumstances for which, I must say, in justice to myself, I think I was hardly to blame. However, the members of the court martial took a different view of the case, and I was, to put it ...
— A Chinese Command - A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas • Harry Collingwood
... and hesitatingly, with the air of one unsure and apprehensive. The waiters watched him furtively. When he was passing behind Harte's chair one ...
— Chapters from My Autobiography • Mark Twain
... hindquarters, and the rain running in brown streams down its legs. Its lips were decorated with the absurd, the almost incredible moustache that is the consequence among Irish horses of a furze diet (I would hesitatingly direct the attention of the male youth of Britain to this singular but undoubted fact), and although the hot whisky and water had not exaggerated the excellence of its shoulder and the iron soundness of its legs, it had certainly reversed the curve of ...
— All on the Irish Shore - Irish Sketches • E. Somerville and Martin Ross
... "N-o—" she answered hesitatingly, "but—but this is what I want to say. Tell me, Billy Little, do you think anything can come between Dic and me? That is the thought that haunts me all the time and ...
— A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties • Charles Major
... the dim light of a tallow dip, poring laboriously over some account books. It was not quite seven o'clock, and he never started for Billy Martin's before that hour. As he ran his finger slowly and hesitatingly down the column of figures, he heard the kitchen door beyond open and shut, the noise of footsteps crossing the floor and the scraping of a chair dragged forward to the hearth. Then came the sound of a basket of corncobs being emptied on the smoldering ...
— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard Pyle
... to pay this Mrs. Scott for her day's work, Marty, who had a great habit of following her mother around the house, went also. Mrs. Scott had just finished her supper, and after receiving her money and replying to Mrs. Ashford's pleasant remarks, she said hesitatingly, pointing to a saucer of very fine canned peaches which was part of her supper, but which she had apparently only tasted, "Please, mem, may I take them splendid peaches home to my sick little girl? She can't eat nothin' at all hardly, and she would relish them, I know. ...
— A Missionary Twig • Emma L. Burnett
... continued, hesitatingly, "when I first entered this room I did not understand your true worth and superiority, but a sense of these has been growing on me from that hour to this. Perhaps I was not as sincere as I—I—should have been, and you ...
— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe
... himself obviously superior, and so proud, that for a kiss he looked to receive a box on the ear. The thought of possessing her was almost disquieting. At times he believed that she was just playing with him and his position appeared simply foolish and absurd. But to-day, after this promise, uttered hesitatingly, in faltering tones such as he had heard other women use, he felt suddenly certain of his power and that victory was near. He knew that things would be just as he had desired them to be. And to this sense of voluptuous expectancy was added ...
— Sanine • Michael Artzibashef
... do not profess to know all about it. It will be some time before the calm historian can possess himself of all the facts. Till such time we hope that this brief statement will stand. We offer it hesitatingly with keen consciousness of the danger that it will probably suit neither of the two parties in controversy over the sending of ...
— The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki - Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 • Joel R. Moore |
