A part of the Huguenot soldiers had, indeed, already been secretly introduced into the city,[910] when letters were received from the irresolute Antoine indefinitely postponing the undertaking.
Timid and irresolute Catharine, who desired to steer clear of the Scylla of Spanish intervention quite as much as of the Charybdis of Huguenot supremacy, trembled for the security of her unballasted bark.
But the abasement of this irresolute prince was not yet complete.
It must be confessed that the Queen of Navarre herself gave no little aid and comfort to the advocates of timid and irresolute counsels, by a course singularly wanting in ingenuousness.
He shrank from seeing again his home and the desolate house of Cyrus, and remained inactive and irresolute for a year and a half in Egypt; in spite of the danger which attached to the absence of the ruler of so vast a kingdom.
As they were not pledged to provide soldiers for the king of the Lydians, they had looked on inirresolute neutrality during the war.
I stood irresolute a moment, looking down into the grave; and all at once, a great fear possessed me that some calamity had overtaken Bannister.
In another minute he is in the room standing irresolute in the doorway, looking round as if to see who is and who is not there to-night.
He was standingirresolute in the middle of the room.
History represents Humbert as a weak, inconstant and irresolute prince.
The aim of these predictions was not only to excite the enthusiasm of the people, but to strengthen a weak and irresolute prince in his undertaking.
The present favorite idea is that in Hamlet the great dramatist intended to delineate an irresolute mind depressed by the weight of a mission which it is unable to accomplish.
She stood irresolute for a moment, then turned and went slowly back toward the office, glancing occasionally over her shoulder toward the gate.
The daylight now came wanly up the gap made in the forest by the brawling river, and the men stood irresolute before the quarry and peered up anxiously at the roof of the pit.
Such was the unhappy and irresolute heart that found itself united to one of the most daring geniuses in the world.
Our captain was a person of timid and irresolute character, and the dangers that environed us made him gradually lose confidence in himself.
He watched upon deck almost without intermission, and seemed irresolute what to do, sometimes sitting down composedly, and at other times hurrying backwards and forwards, with clenched hands and bloodless cheeks.
One of the men immediately came up the cabin stairs, but stopped short on seeing me, as if irresolute whether to advance or hasten below again.
Bravery in presence of an enemy is a thing by itself: a person may possess it and still be a coward and an irresolute num-skull.
The longer he pondered over the subject, the more awkward and irresolute he felt.
As he opened the drawer which contained the money, a sudden chill crept through his veins, and he paused, irresolute how to act.
Fairfax, a brave soldier, but of mean understanding and irresolute temper, was the nominal Lord General of the forces; but Cromwell was their real head.
The refugees proceeded to hold a long and animated debate on this misadventure: for, from the beginning to the end of their expedition, however languid and irresolute their conduct might be, they never in debate wanted spirit or perseverance.
I hug myself with delight at her confusion; the irresolute perplexity in her eyes positively fascinates me.
She stood awhile and digested this mendacious invention and seemed to be irresolute in her summing up of my person.
The narrow foot-path crossed a broad road through the wood; here the stranger paused irresolute and looked about him searchingly.
Lucie left alone with Arno, resolved not to leave him until she had justified herself in his eyes, and yet she was irresolute how to begin.
She paused irresolute for a moment, then continued: "I am going to tell you all, Sadie, for I know it is right you should learn the truth.
Mrs. Seabrook sat irresolute a moment, her eyes anxious and yearning.
As the darkness of night closed on him, irresolute he wavered in mind.
They stood irresolute before it, and gazed at the dark pile.
The guests, who had risen in anxiety at the principal yell, now stood irresolute awhile, then sat down laughing.
Mr. Smelts was lifted in, none too gently, and as he showed no signs of returning consciousness, Cock-eye paused irresolute and looked at Dan.
Then he asked me in an irresolute manner: "Shall you starve long?
Twice she made anirresolute step, and slightly turned her head toward Mitrofan, but her flushed cheek felt his penetrating gaze, and she became as petrified.
Dan stood irresolute in his chamber; he glanced into the large room where Leucon still bent over his work, and the Grey Weaver raised a hand in a solemn salutation, but said nothing.
This man reproached himself, ever afterwards, for his irresolute conscience; and the two executors gave him nothing but blame for his behaviour.
He stole some irresolute glances at his brother's clear, straight-forward face; and he might have saved himself by doing what he was half-inclined to do.
It vexes me to see a statesman so irresolute and unmanned.
She stood irresolute and alone, unable to advance, and too weak to see the chair that stood close at hand.
