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Example sentences for "momentary pause"

  • There was a momentary pause at the door; but when it was clear that very little was to be apprehended, the troop poured in with much more hasty and confident steps than those with which they had first approached.

  • This done, a momentary pause ensued, and Lennard Sherbrooke gazed wistfully at the boy.

  • At length, when there was a momentary pause, he said: 'In my time, the regular thing was to move an amendment on the address.

  • There was a momentary pause, and the servants divided themselves into two bodies, and one turned to face those above, and the other those who were below.

  • Years and necessity," he replied, after a momentary pause.

  • At the end of the terrace, however, the footsteps stopped; there was a momentary pause, and then they mounted the steps and came along the gravel towards her.

  • Carlingford is it," he added, with a little catching of his breath after a momentary pause, "who visits that poor lady?

  • She made a momentary pause, and then said, with a laugh, "About the Glasgow man?

  • You just now observed,' said Tancred, after a momentary pause, 'that it sometimes almost seems to you that you ought to acknowledge my Lord and Master.

  • I require one,' he added, after a momentary pause, but in an agitated voice.

  • After a momentary pause, Fernow turned to her.

  • I feared as much," said the captain after a momentary pause; "I feared that some military stratagem lay at the foundation of the sudden disappearance of the French soldiers.

  • But Doctor Stephen was right with his diagnosis," continued the surgeon after a momentary pause, "although I would not believe it when he came over to H.

  • She made a momentary pause on the threshold, while all the beholders held their breath.

  • Now look," she said, after a momentary pause, "how truth brings truth!

  • There was a momentary pause in the strange little group linked together by the baby's clutches.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    business here; country folk; dangers from; different modes; file closers; first appearance; full bearing; good constitution; good home; higher rate; loose materials; miles further; modern nations; momentary glimpse; momentary pause; plead guilty; reflected light; sixty grains; take what; wagon train; water level; welcome guest; wicked life