But his embarrassment and hesitation were so visible that the Countess had little choice between flinching or charging bravely up to the guns.
Suppose circumstances should favour a full communication of the extraordinary disclosure he had it in his power to make to her, he would not feel any hesitation about making it.
Without an instant's hesitation she sprang toward Janus, fairly hurling herself upon him.
Without an instant's hesitation she clambered down the rocks and made her way to the base of the mountain tree.
They showed no hesitation a little later on in making a distinct encroachment on the royal rights by imposing the salaries of the judges as a permanent charge upon the hereditary revenues of the Crown without the sovereign's consent.
Shrewsbury, who had been offered the Secretaryship of State left vacant by the retirement of Nottingham, after some months of hesitation accepted the office.
Sir," she said, addressing him with some hesitation as he was preparing to depart.
Perhaps it had almost been deemed a fault in him that he had had none of the timidity or hesitation of a lover.
A fresh order arrived, but the same hesitation prevailed.
Deploring, then, the rash obstinacy of the stay at Moscow, and the fatal hesitation at Malo-jaroslavetz, they proceeded to reckon up their losses.
In this vast wreck, the army, which might be compared to a mighty ship tossed by the most tremendous of tempests, threw without hesitation into that sea of ice and snow everything that could burden or impede its progress.
Merthyr's inquiry after Wilfrid produced a momentary hesitation on Cornelia's Part--"He has gone to Verona.
And that little hesitation was a proof of the fact that she could really see the picture," added Mr. Parke.
Without the least hesitation she opened the letter, and to her ineffable surprise discovered that it contained a Bank of England note for one thousand pounds.
By the bye, your little hesitation about the engraving was admirable.
I do not know whether it had anything to do with his hesitation that at that moment the cathedral bell in the town below us began to ring slowly for Vespers.
I read the hesitation of the gang in their faces: and when one asked roughly who we were, I replied with greater boldness, "I am M.
After a second's hesitationshe added, "Perhaps it's melancholy.
At this moment came at once the explanation of Schwartz's hesitation and the answer to Jim's question.
As we met the roaring eagre we felt the engine leap, as Schwartz's hesitation left him and he opened the throttle.
In very many predicaments we should be greatly relieved were there some one who could at once deliver us from all hesitation and mental conflict by one authoritative word.
Sure of his first principle, he had no hesitation in going into caves and among the ruins of temples.
Fichte accepted without hesitation the confinement within the limits of consciousness against which Jacobi rebelled, and proceeded to make the prison worthy of such an occupant.
Well, him, too, he would kill without hesitation if they met in fight; for he was far worse than the black fiends over whom he exercised ascendency.
This explains the hesitationshown during the chase.
The hesitation and want of vigour shown in the attack seem surprising.
There was, perhaps, some little hesitation in the movements which followed.
I'll sign up to that," came without hesitationfrom the lad.
Hollings recognized him in a twinkling and without a shade of hesitation singled him out from twelve other men; so, also, did Mr. Rhinehart and Christopher.
With some hesitationthe mother complied, the Delaware apparently paying no heed to them.
Without hesitation she stepped off the broad flat stone and went to him.
He noticed myhesitation in answering him, but said: "All right.
I have no hesitation in proclaiming Adelaide the best as regards situation, laying out, and climate.
However, I noticed once or twice just a suspicion of hesitation in their answers, and so I came to the conclusion that there was a secret.
There was a certain hesitation in the old man's manner, and Cleanor, who had all the quick observation and alert intelligence of his race, did not fail to perceive it.
It was without a moment's hesitation that Scipio replied to this harangue.
He stared hard for a moment; then as the canoe glided rapidly straight towards him without fear or hesitation he waded out, stopping every instant to turn, and look, and try the wind, till he reached the fringe of woods beyond the grasses.
There was not an instant's hesitation or searching.
I have wondered since how much of this hesitation he understood; and how he came to the conclusion, which he certainly reached, that I meant him no harm, but only wanted to get on and was not disposed to give him the path.
This hesitation arose, not from the poverty, but from the wealth of their vocabulary.
We have no hesitation in pronouncing this Fragment decidedly the best history now extant of the reign of James the Second.
With strong sense, and the greatest readiness of wit, a certain tendency to hesitation was hereditary in the line of Fox.
