"Ah," said the Moral Principle,
hesitatingly, "let us draw lots to see which shall retire till the other has crossed."
Fogg's project as madness; the Daily Telegraph alone
hesitatingly supported him.
In the sudden thud, hiss, and glare of the igniting trees, the panic-stricken crowd seems to have swayed
hesitatingly for some moments.
But once, the mood was on him too deep for common regardings; and as with heavy, lumber-like pace he was measuring the ship from taffrail to mainmast, Stubb, the odd second mate, came up from below, and with a 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.
"Yea," answered I,
hesitatingly, "but thou knowest it also"--And I said something into her ear, in amongst her confused, yellow, foolish tresses.
'No,' returned she,
hesitatingly - 'but I've heard so much about her lately, both at the Wilsons' and the vicarage; - and besides, mamma says, if she were a proper person she would not be living there by herself - and don't you remember last winter, Gilbert, all that about the false name to the picture; and how she explained it - saying she had friends or acquaintances from whom she wished her present residence to be concealed, and that she was afraid of their tracing her out; - and then, how suddenly she started up and left the room when that person came - whom she took good care not to let us catch a glimpse of, and who Arthur, with such an air of mystery, told us was his mamma's friend?'
Levin heard the secretary
hesitatingly read the minutes which he obviously did not himself understand; but Levin saw from this secretary's face what a good, nice, kind-hearted person he was.
One may not hope to escape." After a pause --
hesitatingly: "and there be other rea- sons -- and weightier."
"I am thankful to find that I can look with so little pain on the spot!--shall we ever talk on that subject, Elinor?"--
hesitatingly it was said.--"Or will it be wrong?--I can talk of it now, I hope, as I ought to do."--
"Well, sir, I don't know," said Godfrey,
hesitatingly. That was a feeble evasion, but Godfrey was not fond of lying, and, not being sufficiently aware that no sort of duplicity can long flourish without the help of vocal falsehoods, he was quite unprepared with invented motives.
"And you--sold it?" asked D'Artagnan,
hesitatingly.
The servant then approached Athos and said,
hesitatingly: