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Flynn hesitated for a moment before slowly straightening her back and shutting the fridge door.
The bar attendant lady hesitated not for one second and cheerfully confided that her brew had been stewing for three hours.
I hesitated, but allowed that we'd do sort of a trial run for a few months.
The hail of bullets was tremendous, and the squad hesitated amidst the storm.
He hesitated for a brief moment, then picked up his address book and, riffling worn pages, looked up the numbers of his team mates.
She hesitated for a moment, running her nimble fingers around the rim of her tankard.
Richard hesitated to land, not knowing the situation, but as soon as the garrison saw the sails, they sallied out to attack.
Delivering a left hook to try to trap the Axis forces on the Mareth Line, Freyberg hesitated at the vital moment.
She hesitated a second, wondering if Drake would yell at her or make a scene in front of the crew.
As I hesitated, a short, fat, bald-headed man looked up from the next desk.
But, for the briefest moment he hesitated, and Ashley Cole was able to turn his shot on to the bar.
Initially, I hesitated to bath without clothes, which is normal in such bathing places.
Will hesitated, all good sense and reason, even his own desires, begging him to keep his mouth shut.
The professor hesitated for a moment, slightly confused by the question, which seemed on the face of it to be something of a non sequitur.
When it comes to voluntary service, he never hesitated to lead from the forefront.
Before their lips touched, however, he hesitated slightly and looked at Molly to make sure she was okay with this.
He hesitated a while across the street, then his curiosity got the better of him and he started to cross the street.
I was about to give her a shekel when something about her expression made me look again, and my hand hesitated in embarrassment.
I hurried back to my room, shouldered my knapsack, and hesitated over my suitcase before deciding to leave it.
Lady hesitated for a moment, watching the two in front of her with an inquisitive look before trotting off briskly to catch up.
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Laker and Bailey started towards the ball, hesitated, and the batsmen scrambled a single.
Brian blinked, hesitated, and slowly waved a hand in front of his friend's unblinking eyes.
But he hesitated, which allowed the American to dash back and make a fine saving tackle to spare his blushes.
Dispaltro initially hesitated in transitioning from the physically demanding sport of wheelchair rugby to the more cerebral boccia.
When he realised she had gone, he hesitated for a moment, then quickly unstrapped his guitar and laid it down in its case.
The manager hesitated, unsure of whether or not he should tell her of the commando unit that had taken his staff room.
Her mother hesitated, unsure of what to do, but when Allyson held on, she slowly wrapped her arms around her as well.
When Mike was leaving he pulled me in for a bro hug and then hesitated at the door.
She hesitated, but slowly walked out of the cell, afraid that rats or spiders would brush her feet.
Cameron hesitated as he took in the roof, his vision blocked by other staircase entries, chimneys and vent stacks.
I hesitated only long enough to grab an incense stick and lighter, and was outside in a minute.
With these he was careful and prudent, but never hesitated to recommend judicious outlay.
But he must now work under a man who has not hesitated to call him on the carpet.
They watched as Lauren fought on still, and Sarah hesitated, waiting for her.
Would they have hesitated to use nuclear weapons if they had access to them?
Peter never hesitated to provide a phone number or contact to assist faculty.
The question took Scott by surprise and he hesitated a moment before answering.
Marnie hesitated for a half second too long, looking at the man who'd designated himself as her house husband.
They hesitated, deciding which way to go round him, as if he weren't a man at all but a natural occurrence to be circumnavigated.
But as I hesitated, the cataracts clouded over and the old blind man clicked his tongue.
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He was companionable to the few who came within his favor but never hesitated to speak his mind, however unpleasant the impression left.
The guard hesitated, eying her suspiciously, taking in her filthiness and the peasant clothes she was wearing.
We hesitated and then mouthed each other's names into the noisy carriage, a huge interrobang hanging over us both.
Although we have hesitated to stake our own success on prognostications for 2003, I am not optimistic on either of these two counts.
Murray hesitated, his complexion turning slightly green at the idea of a wide-awake, close-up view of the corpse.
Edie hesitated, and shook her head, being too disconcerted to say anything.
Nathan hesitated calling for Alice to quickly dish something up for him and he wasn't sure why.
I dunno if this carries in the transcript, but this guy hesitated suspiciously after every single fact.
If the roles were reversed, I wouldn't have hesitated in dropping him home.
Picking up a small match to light a candle, Mary hesitated before setting the fresh wick to flame.
At the national convention two years ago, however, the leaders hesitated in going all the way in this direction.
She hesitated then sat down in the chair beside him, tucking an afghan over her legs and finding a book to read.
In recent years, the courts have hesitated over whether to take such agreements into account.
When the village mullah hesitated at performing the nikah for such a young girl, the bridegroom put a gun to his head and the marriage was performed.
Then was seen the unprecedented sight of a party agent challenging the votes on his own side with a captiousness that his opponents would have hesitated to display.
She hesitated, cast her eyes downward, and looked inexplicably sad.
At the last moment he hesitated, spotting the light reflecting off a garish purple blob taped oddly to the side of a tree another fifty feet up the trail.
For a second the dog hesitated, then as if compelled by a command, Rocky pounced on Kevin trailing his rough tongue all over his master's face in long slurpy licks.
To his surprise, instead of laughing or blowing him off, she hesitated.
I hesitated outside, listening to the spooky sounds of the pigeons roosting under the roof, but my dinner companions called me a coward and yanked open the door.
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I have lived and worked in austere conditions, lifted and carried heavy equipment and never hesitated to assist in the effort to help the enemy die for their country.
The notion that he was a great man who hesitated overmuch to exercise power over his brother bishops seems to me to be much closer to the reality.
She hesitated a moment, not used to taking charge or giving direction.
In a shopping mall, I hesitated because an innocent person was behind the shooter and I feared hitting her.
Massachusetts has not hesitated to elect Republicans to statewide office in the past.
The cat, which had entered the room as he spoke, hesitated, looked up at him and snarled.
One of the public defenders handed it to a marshal, who hesitated for just an instant before taking it.
He hesitated as if about to say something sharp, then surlily he agreed.
She hesitated a moment, opening her mouth, but then closing it again.
He hesitated before declaring for Queen Jane, and his delay proved fatal.
They wouldn't have hesitated to kill him quickly and be done with it.
Schweitzer was no soft-headed do-gooder but a strong-minded, short-tempered, workaholic autocrat, who slept only four hours a night and whom people hesitated to cross.
Daniel hesitated, trying to frame his words in the nicest possible way.
Desorcy, a nickel-and-dime operator, hesitated due to the large amount.
I hesitated to contradict him, but I believed he was missing the point.
At first the student hesitated with the chord changes and fumbled quite often, messing up accidentals in the tune as we jumped from key to key and so on.
As a United States senator, Claiborne Pell never hesitated to give credit to others to help achieve the causes he held dear.
Chris hesitated to ask because of the fear she might say no.
He glanced over, his ears flicked up and he bounded to his feet to hurry over, then hesitated when he saw the two soldiers hovering at my shoulder.
I hesitated, stalling for time, but she would have none of it.
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Despite the early success with Scotland, Henry hesitated to invade France, annoying Charles.
In the summer of 1792, all of Paris was against the king, and hoped that the Assembly would depose the king, but the Assembly hesitated.
Brad hesitated, peering at the grid of spun sugar that jutted from his loganberry parfait.
But he hesitated when approached to do a project that combined maqam with jazz, even though that had been his pre-quest intention.
Despite this, Elizabeth hesitated to order her execution, even in the face of pressure from the English Parliament to carry out the sentence.
Merlin hesitated a moment or two, and I was on pins and needles during that little while.
It was seldom that Mrs. Ladybug hesitated to speak her mind right out to a person if she happened to disapprove of him.
Broderick told New York magazine that he hesitated in accepting the role.
The Syrian regime is a pyromaniac that has never hesitated to cause problems for Lebanon, Jordan or Iraq.
Why they hesitated I never could tell, unless they did it by way of a joke.
If they hesitated prior to starting, the trial was disregarded and reattempted.
While the count of Alife hesitated, Roger, now supported by Benevento, destroyed all the rebels' castles in the region, capturing an immense booty.
The Russians again avoided battle, although in a few cases this was only achieved because Napoleon uncharacteristically hesitated to attack when the opportunity arose.
Though Maramon Palakunnathu Abraham Malpan was bounteous in his temperament he never hesitated to introduce reforms in both teaching and practice.
Wesley hesitated to accept Whitefield's call to copy this bold step.
The manager hesitated to open the doors to the thronging holiday crowds, knowing that a feeding frenzy would soon ensue near the display of coveted toys.
Johnson hesitated with his back to goal and was dispossessed by Mulumbu, who instantly played Odemwingie through on goal. The Nigerian kept his composure to wrong-foot Reina.
The tunnel was dark and Fatima hesitated at the entrance of the underpass.
John hesitated and decided not to attack Louis immediately, either due to the risks of open battle or over concerns about the loyalty of his own men.
Had Northerners realized that most Southerners really did favor secession, they might have hesitated at attempting the enormous task of conquering a united South.
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While the other cities again hesitated, Thebes decided to fight.
Examples from Classical Literature
For an instant the third base runner hesitated, fearing a caught fly, and that instant cost his side the game.
Old Van Quintem had hitherto hesitated to congratulate Mrs. Frump upon the reacquisition of her husband.
At this point Wanhope hesitated with a kind of diffidence that was rather charming in him.
Not once had she hesitated or turned from the beaten trail, but she had gone down after the graveyard shift.
But he hesitated a moment before calling upon the great horned owl, as if he himself doubted the honesty of this savage bird.
The cornet hesitated for a little, and then told his uncle the name of his accomplice.
He took his coat from the hanger, put it on, and reached for his hat, then hesitated.
I have hesitated a long while between the whistling duck, the duck with white eyebrows, and the shoveler duck.
He snapped on the headpiece, then hesitated at the edge of the deck, looking down.
For a moment siddha hesitated, as the conversation with his uncle crossed his mind.
While she yet hesitated, Dione came to say that her master required the attendance of Eudora alone in his apartment.
The Bushman hesitated, but finally lowered his assegai and accepted the gift.
The governor hesitated for a moment, and then gave Colonel hensen directions to comply with my request.
Those who had hesitated in their patronage of the poet were not disinclined to aid the painter.
The associate professor of admiralty in the department of law of the University of Virginia hesitated and was lost.
Senhor, I exclaimed, you remind me of the alcaide of Montijo, who hesitated to approach his mother-in-law until she was gloved.
Pender hesitated a moment for words, casting about with his hands in the air and hunching his shoulders.
She hesitated, and then fired a parting shot which certainly was spiteful in the extreme.
And yet, when it came to the point, Max hesitated to give the order to fire the pyre.
He hesitated a moment, and then returned gravely to the stage door and opened it.
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True, Ma never hesitated about taking a willow switch to him when he was a young 'un, or a stob of kindling when he got older.
It remembered how the Government had hesitated, procrastinated, and vacillated in this so-called blockade, as in other matters.
I hesitated as I put the interrogatory, Reigart had no knowledge of my attachment to Aurore.
Hearing this, it is said, he hesitated to go to ios, and remained in the region where he was.
A bat circled near, indecisively, as if with a message it hesitated to give.
If that team had been in front of the Chinese Wall and got the signal to go, not a man would have hesitated.
He hesitated, and finally declared that he could not venture in the direction where the Karakul had appeared.
The electrician put his hand in his pocket, hesitated, and then withdrew it, empty.
Fidus, Amata, and the little Mignon, hesitated not one moment to declare their choice of staying with the generous Benefico.
Thus perplexed, Fox Talbot hesitated in 1826 to enounce this fundamental principle.
She looked at the boyish, interested, sunburnt face so near to her own, and hesitated.
Mrs. Marsden hesitated one moment, then stepped across the lanai, peered into the parlor and entered.
I suggested, as Mrs. Groves hesitated in her enumeration of accomplishments.
For a short moment he hesitated but atavism and necessity were against him.
His image smiled into tensor's mind and then hesitated as he saw the concern there.
Instead of fighting he hesitated and procrastinated away every chance of victory.
It however came about through the Devil's agency that they hesitated continually and procrastinated.
The Austrian army crossed in force the Ticino, then hesitated and was lost.
Again Salisbury toed the rubber, and he hesitated, with his face turned toward second.
And then he looked at the sash and the cockade, and hesitated, apparently at a loss.
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He hesitated for a second, the receiver in his hand, his mouth against the transmitter.
On seeing the rivulet, he hesitated for a moment, and then followed its course.
Mr. Menaida hesitated, but presently handed it to the redoubted Captain, with nervous twitches in his face.
He hesitated, biting his lip and plucking absently the tangles from the forelock of his horse.
He was about to unbuckle the belt and take it off, but hesitated, feeling that it would not be in his way.
Briefly the crooner's voice wavered, the notes of the violins hesitated, but no one noticed.
Passing her eyes over Jo's uninflated frame, she hesitated, but was urged to speak the truth.
O'Toole hesitated, started to climb into the cab of mono 6, and Slater stopped him.
Few of his predecessors would have hesitated to take ruder methods with so unmalleable a piece of metal.
The Nanticoke hesitated to accept the obliging offer, alleging that the wife was so very small, and had four legs.
Sumbal hesitated, then put down the portfire and walked over to the fallen lad, beside whom the stranger was kneeling.
For a moment I hesitated, realizing full well what an inquiry might reveal.
Villeneuve, however, hesitated when he heard that Nelson had resumed the command.
She looked up, as I hesitated, and flashed that darkling glance of hers at me.
His attitude was that of one who hesitated to demand silence from so well-bred a throng.
She has not hesitated to plagiarise from even so humble an individual as myself.
The Sea Eagle hesitated, half rose, and then crashed down to the ground, landing heavily on one wing tip and smashing it to bits.
Mortimer hesitated, and then, Flushing, took the gloved fingers in his own.
She was seized with doubt as to the applicability of the text, and hesitated.
Mr. Wythe wants to go into the army, but for some reason he has hesitated about volunteering.
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The young man hesitated, fractionally, struck with the rattletrap's supreme lack of dignity.
At the door of the freight car which I had chartered, he hesitated, but only for an instant.
At the gate of the neat little frame house far up on the parkway, her driver hesitated.
The doctor peered at me over his glasses, hesitated, and then revealed his patronym.
He hesitated a moment, tossed the pea jacket back on the settee and sat down once more.
If a man had a gangrenous foot would you have patience with anyone who hesitated to amputate it?
And while she hesitated, from the room above came the soft, racking, petitionary music of a violin.
As he stepped to it, a yill thrust himself ahead and hesitated.
Finally I came to my pantaloons, at which I naturally hesitated.
Purposely he hesitated and haggled over the amount, but Paulvitch was obdurate.
But your Junkers and other jingoes neither wavered nor hesitated.
Morris hesitated for a moment, and then sat down beside her.
As she hesitated he looked long at her with that untranslated gaze.
She, reflective, hesitated a moment then making up her mind bravely.
At the same time he hesitated to appall her with the grim knowledge.
The Leopard Woman hesitated the least appreciable portion of a second.
Ampudia hesitated, and General arista was appointed in his place.
She hesitated in a funny, bashful manner which roused my interest.
She had more to say, and yet hesitated about bearding the lion.
Captain Truck hesitated, and he looked wistfully at the mast.
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As she still hesitated, being, in fact, in no reasonable state of mind, he took the infant in his arms, and himself administered the draught.
Arnold hesitated, eyeing the briefcase in Beardsley's clutch.
He never hesitated, nor did he hurry and make a bungle of it.
On landing at Calais, Mrs. Robinson hesitated whether to proceed.
Mrs. Carlson hesitated, drawing back a little when she saw his face.
As I hesitated, two of the beautiful Upper-world people came running in their amorous sport across the daylight in the shadow.
Carr hesitated, resisting the impulse to take Mado at his word.
Why, that was the crossroads before which childe Roland hesitated!
Grant hesitated, circling erratically with his victim close to the steps.
He hesitated, but when his words came they were clear-cut and stern.
Charles hesitated, while a cold sweat ran from his forehead.
The girl hesitated, and then took a cornflower from her little bouquet.
When their hands separated, the father still hesitated, looking at cranch.
Yet he never, in the darkest hour, faltered or hesitated for a moment.
Then he hesitated, with his clear, deep-set eyes resting on her face.
He again reached his trembling hand for the decanter, hesitated, and then, turning his back upon it, resolutely walked to the open window.
I hesitated and tried to think of some safe way out of the dilemma.
The schoolmaster hesitated, and turned the lamp-wick up and down.
He hesitated, to scrutinise his companion's inscrutable face.
Mr. dork hesitated for a moment, rubbing the bristles upon his chin.
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For an instant, he hesitated while the others regarded him doubtfully.
He hesitated and drummed with his fingers on the thick creamy pages.
I remember a long gallery of rusting stands of arms, and how I hesitated between my crowbar and a hatchet or a sword.
In their excited state they would not have hesitated to do it.
The woman hesitated and then fell to cursing and blaspheming in a most horrible manner, at the same time calling for help.
He hesitated again, until the Kwanns in front of him had begun to fidget.
He fidgeted, hesitated, and then hurried forth a labored apology.
The headmaster hesitated a moment, and then, idly drawing lines with a pencil on the blotting paper in front of him, went on.
But even Ranny hesitated to call it flabbiness in so fine a man.
But Flanagan hesitated to pass down this lane and so depart.
He hesitated, awkward and bashful, shifted his weight from one leg to the other, then blunderingly gripped my hand in a hearty shake.
Once when he hesitated at a forking of the way, she forged straight on.
Then gloatingly he picked up the fox, hesitated and picked up the rabbit.
Arcolano hesitated, and his gluttonous mouth quivered and twitched.
As he hesitated, the goulash upon the dish before him, Linke smiled.
The man hesitated to reply, but a squeeze from the Gujarati decided him.
The Manyuema hesitated, then one of them flung his torch into the campfire.
Henri de Loubersac hesitated a second, then concluded the interview.
He hesitated a little, then went on, with a certain curious embarrassment.
The man who has not hesitated to betray us both, will not hesitate to misrepresent us in the vilest way, if he can do it in the future.
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For a moment, for just so long as it needs to stuff a cartridge into a breech-loader, the lama hesitated.
Thorpe hesitated, and knitted his brows in the effort to remember names.
He hesitated on the pavement, his eyes searching the shadowy balcony.
Damis hesitated as the Kildare's keen gray eyes bored into his own.
The kinglet hesitated, and then jabbed the fat man with his sceptre.
He hesitated a moment, then pushed between the knee-high stalks.
Lady St. Craye hesitated a moment with her latchkey in her hand.
He hesitated a moment, then launched a heavy fist at Kirkwood's face.
He would not have hesitated to make away with her, but that he dared not.
He hesitated just a moment and glanced questioningly at Mrs. Travis.
Mrs. Trevel was about to put away her treasure-trove when she hesitated.
Dolly hesitated again, and not being able to decide upon any other course of action, burst into tears.
He hesitated, looking at her firmly with his unfaltering gaze.
On many of his depredatory expeditions he had not hesitated to use the knife and the mutton-bone.
Fluent and voluble upon all other subjects, upon this he hesitated.
Gordon hesitated, and then swung off woodenly to take up his new beat.
The woodlander hesitated a moment as if he were considering.
The man hesitated, and Raleigh cried, 'I prithee, let me see it.
You have not hesitated to entrust your heads to a man, whom no one could employ to make even the shoes for their feet.
Rawlinson hesitated, and glanced round at each of us in turn.
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Reynold looked at Barbara, hesitated, and then offered his arm.
In the act of putting on his overcoat in the hall, he hesitated, and hung it up again irresolutely.
The secretary hesitated a moment and laughed in a conciliating fashion.
There wasn't a steward, even, grand and remote as she was, who, at her bidding, would have hesitated to souse the Old Man himself with a plate of soup.
He hesitated a single instant, and bending a cautious glance toward his companion, he continued, in a manner that was divided between interrogation and assertion.
Yon officer of the king, who hesitated to admit me to his company, might fill the latter, if one may judge from the intonations of his voice in common dialogue.
I was his right hand, and yet he never hesitated to make me his catspaw.
Then Trent, who had more faults than most men, but who hated bad language, looked at the back of the photograph, and, shuddering, hesitated no longer.
Sometimes I bolted suddenly, and nobody could tell my whereabouts, for I did not stand much about gracefulness, and never hesitated at a gap in a fence.
It was not strange that he should so heartlessly have betrayed his friends' confidence, nor that he hesitated not at all to gratify a whim at the cost of another's misery.
If I hesitated, she was taken with that wonderful disorder which was always lying in ambush in her system, ready, at the shortest notice, to prey upon her vitals.
The stranger hesitated, pausing once or twice with his back towards her, as if engaged in carefully examining the dwarf willows to select a switch.
His constraint was so manifest, and it was so manifest, too, that it originated in an unwillingness to approach the subject, that Charles Darnay hesitated.
