I did my best to rise, but weakness again overcame me, and I could only stammer out a few faint words of excuse.
When called on to recite, his brow would pucker and he would perspire and stammer until the class would be in ill-suppressed convulsions, all the more enjoyable because of Leo Wolffert's agonizing over his wretchedness.
I was about to stammer something when my hostess moved away, and as it appeared that the others had all paired off, there was nothing for me to do but accept the situation.
He dropped her hand then, while Alice attempted to stammer out some reply.
He turned partly around, so he could look at her; and this it was which brought the blood so quickly to her face, making her stammer as she replied: "Of course I shall be glad.
But at this sudden revelation of the incomparable grace, and self-possession, and high loveliness of this beautiful creature, all his courage and hopes fled instantly, and he could only stammer out excuses for his calling so early.
The drunken became sober, and the sober drunk; the lips of the women turned blue with rage, and could scarcely stammer out a congratulation.
Already is a curse against the Almighty conceived in his inflamed brain, but his tongue is unable to stammer it forth.
Mary's face wore such a comical expression of blended delight and dismay that Roberta laughed, and Gay stopped the refusal that Mary was beginning to stammer out by putting both hands over her ears.
She had a little stammer that--that Laurie thought very pretty, and she had a restless little way of playing with her fingers as if on a piano.
She lay there, her nervous fingers motionless and her stammer silent.
Seeing, however, that some comment is expected from me, I stammersomething about its being a great age.
I reply, resolutely, and with no hesitation or stammer in my tone, "I am not at all faint.
I managed to stammer out a reply, "Mr. Allison does not consider that his rights extend so far.
Flushing till I wished my curls would fall down and hide my cheeks, I tried tostammer out some apology.
The forehead and left cheek were terribly disfigured by the long crooked scar of the old sabre-cut; and she had already noticed that, when he began to stammer in speaking, that side of his face was affected with a nervous twitch.
He could hardly stammer out a few incoherent words; and the gentleman and the young lady had long since left, when he was still lost in a kind of idiotic delight.
Overcome by this unexpected violence, the count could only stammer out a few incoherent words.
The keys were given up by the janitor yesterday," I managed to stammer at last.
And yet twenty years of slavery had so weakened the springs of her energy, that under the glance of Costeclar, threatening her with her husband's name, she felt embarrassed, and could scarcely stammer some timid excuses.
If a man desires something of us, and can merely stammer and stutter his desire, he affects us more than if he says it in a prepared discourse.
I began to stammer like a novice taken in a wrong.
I had Cynthia red-handed, and wanted to gloat over the stammer and the crimson flush of the traitor.
Oh," he managed tostammer out, choking over the last words, "thank you.
He tried tostammer out his thanks to her for her kindness, but she laughingly interrupted him.
Roderick began to stammer out an explanation, but she cut him off gaily.
His little stammer was a very characteristic part of his manner.
Hugh's stammer was rather like a vain attempt to leap over an obstacle, and showed itself as a simple hesitation rather than as a repetition.
For example, I stammerslightly always and badly at times.
He rubbed his hand over his forehead and was at length able to stammer out in a weak voice: "I also agree, but--ahem!
True, we do not make a wholly clear explanation of the mystery; we but stammer when speaking of a "Trinity.
Or an engineer writes to me: "At times I stammer very badly.
A suggestion to give up vicious habits, perhaps in the sexual sphere, or to speak fluently and no longer stammer may thus be beneficial.
The enemy knew that if I became the least bit confused, I would stammer so that I could hardly talk.
It is true I stammer some yet, at times, but not nearly so much as I did formerly; and not enough to prevent my preaching the Word.
