We had come up to the end of the alley now, and we paused by the blank brick wall.
Once in a long while, indeed, by lucky chance he would succeed in catching in one of these wild leaps, a snipe which flew too low over the ditch or paused on hovering wing before alighting to forage on the populous ooze.
On its threshold he paused and scrutinized the captive with triumphant admiration.
The hunter paused for a few seconds, to take in the situation thoroughly.
As he paused for a moment with his long, trunk-like nose thrust into it, his fine sense could detect nothing but the cool tang of the grass-stems, the light pungency and sweetness of the damp earth below.
He paused for a moment; but seeing that the salmon swam on without hesitation or apparent misgiving, he dashed forward-confidently into the tumult.
So he, too, paused a little, gathering his young strength.
But Yasmini never paused to cast up virtue when she needed assistants in a hurry; rather she was adept at appraising character and bending it to suit her ends.
The Afridi led her up the stone steps, and paused at the top to hammer on a carved door with his clenched fist; but the door moved while his fist was in mid-air, and the merry-eyed maid who opened it mocked him for a lunatic.
The great house was surrounded by a high wall, but a gate was flung wide open to receive them and the procession never paused until the leading elephant came to a halt under a portico lit by dozens of oil lamps.
Samson turned the paper over--paused a moment--and began to read the second sheet.
From time to time he paused from copying, stole silently to the door between the offices, gingerly removed a loose knot from a panel, and clapped to the hole first one, and then the other avidious brown eye.
Jane paused a minute, and Emily looked at her curiously.
She paused and Billy would have spoken, but Lydia began again.
Kent pausedin the beginning of his attack on his last sandwich to look Lydia over.
Shortly she turned down a side street which led to the police-station, and there paused in a quiet corner to pin a veil round her head--a veil so thick that her features could hardly be distinguished through it.
In sight of the home of Doc and Miss Dennihan, they paused and stepped behind a fence, for the door of the neat little house was open and the lady herself was sweeping off the steps, with the briskness inseparable from her character.
I hastened to assure her, for she had paused and was gazing at me, large-eyed and pale.
Had I paused to think for a single instant, all my nerve would have oozed away.
This time it was she who said: "But--" and paused uncertainly.
A blue sign with gilded letters beckoned me, and I paused to read it.
I raised a hand in summons, and he paused beside my seat.
The group had paused before us, and presentations followed, throughout which the master of ceremonies was the Firefly of France.
Within, just out of the limited area of Mr. Gubb's vision, Roscoe Critz paused in his work and listened carefully.
At the latter a dray stood, and as Philo Gubb paused there, two men came from this door and laid a bale of hay on the dray, pushing it forward carefully.
At the office door he paused to take his key from his pocket, but when he tried it in the lock he found the door had been left unlocked and he opened the door hastily and hurried inside.
He paused a moment, as if in doubt, and then came quickly toward me, one hand extended, a smile upon his face.
He paused as the smug young man addressed him, and looked into his face, at first with indifference, almost amounting to annoyance, then with growing recognition, and finally with a bland and condescending smile.
When she paused beside him his hand was outstretched to meet hers; and if the clasp was close and long, what of that?
The guard was silent for a time; then he paused in his measured walk and turned to face me.
I was no longer able to hear their conversation, but they againpaused and gazed long at the fine colonial building of the State of Massachusetts.
She smiled as she moved toward the stairway, at the head of which she turned and paused a moment.
He felt a moment's pain at the disappointment, but before he could find her the music ceased, the dancers paused and the swaying of the crowd made his search vain.
He paused in front of the block on which the millionaire's house stood, amazed at the perfection of its detail, and above all amazed at the impression of homelike comfort and friendly hospitality which it gave.
It was not until he entered his own door, and paused at the sound of Harriet's voice, that he began to realize the enormity of the tragedy that had befallen him.
When at last the big figure towering above him paused for breath, he remarked quietly: "The trust is here to stay, Doctor.
The doctor paused and hesitated, his face scarlet from the deliberate insult.
As he drew down the door of the letter box on the corner to post this reply he paused a moment.
He paused before a theatre into which a stream of pleasure seekers were pouring.
Count Hannibal shrugged his shoulders, but had not answered when Bigot entered and handed him his sweetmeat box; he paused to open it and select a prune.
She paused a moment, and when she spoke again her aspect had undergone a subtle change.
It was only after a few seconds, it was only when she had gazed at him awhile in speechless horror, that he rose another foot from the floor, and she saw that he had paused in the act of ascending through a trapdoor.
A moment he paused to shake himself, and then, remembering that he was still within a mile of the camp, he set off, now walking, and now running in the direction of the hills which his party had crossed that morning.
He paused to see who she was, and his thoughts involuntarily went back to the woman he had left weeping in the upper room.
The sweat stood on his brow as he paused under the low arch of the alley- end, tasting the bitter forlornness of the dog banned and set for death in that sunlit city.
Tignonville paused before he came within the radius of the firelight, and, turning, bade his servants take their way home.
He paused a minute to recover himself, so deeply had the sight moved him; and as he stood, he wondered if that hate already had its cold eye fixed on him.
An instant he paused on the threshold and looked back; then he passed out, and clattered down the stone stairs.
To-morrow I want you to sell for me--" He paused and deliberated, suddenly changing his mind.
Do you mean to say that she--" she paused as though overwhelmed at the thought, "that then she knew Dad was facing ruin?
Richardson came sliding into the room at this moment and he paused to deny the card, with a curt order against further interruptions.
He paused long enough to let this sink into the consciousness of the reeling young man and added, smiling: "On a pro rata basis, Tom, your fifty thousand stands you in just a quarter of a million.
I think each winter--its life is ended, For it makes no stir while the snows lie deep.
I have taken it out of the dust and dirt, With a tender pity but half defined.
In ten years I should only be"--here she paused in the fervour of conversation and eyed him a little with doubt in her face.
He crossed the road to the Common, and then he paused a moment on the edge of it and looked at her again.
It was Mr. Twist who added the final inspiration to Anna-Felicitas's many, when at last shepaused for want of breath.
Again he paused at the window and looked over the park to that narrow, glittering stretch of sea.
Something--she never knew quite what it was--prompted her to detain him as they paused on the threshold of the supper room.
The Duchess turned away to greet a man who had paused before their couch on his way into the restaurant.
He paused after those words, uttered with a tremor of conviction which was not assumed.
He took them, and he paused to aim at his opponent with so evident an intention of killing him that they could distinctly hear Cibo cry: "Fire!
And he related the episode which had just taken place to the two men, who were so surprised that the doctor, bandage in hand, paused in his work.
He paused for a moment at the end of the street to cast a glance at the Place d'Espagne, which he loved as one of those corners unchanged for the last thirty years.
She paused several moments in order to collect herself.
He paused and added, thinking it better not to lie on minor points, "Madame Steno and Alba were there, too.
She paused on the landing and looked down at the dumbfounded woman.
Take a fresh page," said Jean, as Lydia paused half-way down one sheet.
The judge paused for a moment, and then went on with evident emotion.
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay,'" I quoted, as she paused in her rapid discourse.
By this time the hookah had made the round of the circle and once more reached Ram Deen, and as he paused again to "drink tobacco" his listeners made comment: "Wah!
Ram Deen pausedawhile to "drink tobacco," but nobody made comment on a matter in which he was so greatly interested.
She paused in her narrative once more, swaying herself to and fro and moaning, "Aho, aho!
When the buffaloes on the point came to the ice, they paused and turned back.
She paused a moment, and then added, with an accent of horror which she could not control, "What would become of us if these men came upon us when you were away?
He then paused a while in his narrative, but as the stranger did not speak, he continued: "but of M.
A city nymph, in cool summer gown and picture hat, paused before one of my newly reared warnings and read it through with care.
Green things were growing--young onions--and the man who was weeding them paused from his labour long enough to sell me a handful.
Before this swamp Wallingford paused in long and thoughtful contemplation.
Rufus paused before number seven hundred and ten of that building he found its glass door painted with the sign of the National Clockers' Association.
With the habit of shrewdness he paused for a thorough inspection of J.
Their estimate of the youth and recklessness of the lamb-like Mr. Wallingford was such that they mutually paused to muse upon it, though not at all unpleasantly.
Billy paused and looked around with a triumphant eye.
It happened, while upon one of these resting sojourns, that they one night paused on the edge of a crowd which stood gaping at a patent medicine faker.
While she was making ready, however, he took Jonas Bubble in the rig and drove down to the swamp, where they paused in solemn, sober contemplation of that vast and beautiful expanse of Etruscan black mud.
Now he paused for some one else to offer a remark, his eager eye glowing with the sense of a duty not only well, but brilliantly, performed, as it roved from one to the other in search of approval.
The captain pausedfor a minute at the nearest door, and, with a heavy groan, pushing it open, entered the room.
When he reached the drawing-room door he pausedfor a moment, then turning the handle slowly and noiselessly, he entered the room.
At last we paused at the garden-gate of the cottage-house of the illustrator of Faust, and entered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paused" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
