Popular acquiescence in strong personal monarchy was beginning to waver now that the need for it was disappearing with the growing security of national independence.
A family that promised well in infancy and childhood fails of its promise, its sons and daughters waver and fall.
But as she put out her hand to take his arm, Ashe saw her waver and look suddenly across the room.
Lady Tranmore had just begun to waver in a final despair when the door opened and William Ashe entered.
The stiff, slight figure, like a strained wand, did not waver for a moment before the grave indignation of the older woman.
There has never been the slightestwaver in his fidelity and downright labor for a long period of years.
Without a waver in their line, the French pressed on to the attack.
He would never waver the width of a hair even for the most cherished friend or kinsman.
DuQuesne, watching the other narrowly as he made this startling announcement and remembering the effect of a similar one upon Perkins, saw with approval that the coffee-cup in midair did not pause or waver in its course.
But DuQuesne's mind, always under perfect control and now amply reenforced by a considerable proportion of the stranger's own knowledge and power, did not waver under the force of even that hypnotic glare.
I looked in her face for any signals of anger, and seeing her eyes to waver and fall aside from mine, augured that all was well.
I had never any occasion to waver in my first judgment of the Colonel.
She appeared to waver between the light of heaven and the lurid gloom of heaven's opposite.
This was no unsubstantial apparition,--no brain phantom, to waver and vanish, leaving only an uncomfortable doubt whether it had been at all.
Then she continued speaking quickly, lest perhaps she might waver before the end.
Or why should not his wife receive the most praise, who did not waver when she saw her son killed like a beast before her eyes?
Great-minded people do not waver until they have kept their promises, even at the cost of life.
Brave men do not waver until they have finished what they have begun.
The two staring figures appeared to sway and waver toward each other.
I noticed his eye waveron a passing figure or two, whom he seemed about to accost.
His legions began to waver and soon to retire over the brook into the camp, which was not accomplished without severe loss.
The King’s Own Scottish Borderers were shaken by the gas and seemed to waver in their trenches.
He did not do this because he wished to make a stirring picture, but because the men with him, having lost their leaders, were beginning to waver and fall back.
A few stars clustered above the bend of the Canal seemed to shift and waver ever so slightly through a gathering mist, like the smoke of blowing candles.
Afterwards, I was so closely stirred by the sense of impending events that I could not sleep, but sat at my window watching the faint lights of the sky shift and waver over the frozen ice.
It was soon after his release from this twelvemonth captivity that the sails of Francis's spirit began to fill with still more topping hopes, and then to waver strangely.
Catholic influences surrounded Clovis; Catholic interests represented the wealth and prosperity of his dominions, and when he decided to be baptized he did not waver between the Catholic and the Arian belief.
We also learn to know him as a knightly, hapless soldier of the Cross, who would not waver from his word plighted even to an infidel.
Without due ordering, bands of monks dwelling in heathen communities wouldwaver in their practices and even show a lack of doctrinal stability.
Earth, quaking, wavers: if that fact be true, The wavering earth forbids youwaver too.
Sigurd's friends and ours wrote to us of his welfare with a cheerfulness that was apt to waver before the end of the paragraph.
Pat was the beauty of the coop, but in a day or so his legs began to waver and sink under him, and he, too, never knew a Maytime.
He had seen the swift flood of colour mount to her cheeks, and the odd little waver in her eyes before she turned them away.
Her gaze met his serenely; the colour did not rush to her cheeks as he had fondly expected, nor did her eyes waver under the eager, intense gleam in his.
Then he saw the tall lean emissary puffed out like a candle-flame; and upon the floor he saw the huddled cloak waver and spread like ink, and he saw the white parchment slowly dwindle, as snow melts under the open sun.
But there is another kind of question, where, however much the mind may waver between opinions and may resolve on indecision, life itself compels decision.
She drew back from me a little as I came; but her eyes did not waver from mine, and these lured me forward.
It was the rule in these days to see gentlemen unsteady after dinner, yet Nance was both surprised and amused when her companion, who had spoken so soberly, began to stumble and waver by her side with the most airy divagations.
It was from the tent she emerged, as with arms refurbished; though who indeed could say if the manner in which she now met him spoke most, really, of the glitter of battle or of the white waver of the flag of truce?
He thought he felt her grasp waver a little on his arm, but she did not speak.
The form in front of him seemed to waver a moment.
