At one of our wavering retreats, the Rebels, by a sudden dash forward, had taken part of Waterhouse's Battery, which McClernand had sent them over.
From so close, its uncontrolled wavering was terrifying.
The ZX-1 was wavering wildly as her rudders flopped from side to side, and with every swing the bodies that lay in her control car, strangled by gas, stirred slightly.
And the wavering stars of gold and silver with which it is shot, are they not those fires of fancy which take light never so well as under the deep mourning of the night?
I saw him once or twice last summer, at Leith," said Victoria, now wavering between laughter and exasperation.
In the old days there was no wavering and rescinding, and if the chief counsel told you, with brevity, to do a thing, you went and did it straightway, with the knowledge that it was the best thing to do.
At once The childless mother lost her wavering strength, And lay prostrated; never tasting life On earth again!
He had a stern duty of self-humiliation to perform and a once wavering integrity to redeem.
All the sheet was a wavering scrawl, but the last lines ran together word over word.
He stood watching the wavering line until it disappeared, then he unstrapped his blanket and spread it on the bank and threw himself down.
Perhaps the slight antagonistic spirit which was raised by Rose's talk came in aid of her wavering inclinations, or brought back her mind to its old tone of wilfulness; for she decided at once that she would go and see Winifred.
This -- or anything," Elizabeth said, her eye wavering between the water and the shore.
The ram attack was unexpected, and, by its suddenness and evident determination, produced some wavering in the Confederate line, which had expected to do only with the sluggish and unwieldy gunboats.
The greater part of the ship's company had never been in action, but so admirable was their spirit and discipline that no wavering was seen, nor was there any confusion even in reorganizing the more than decimated crews of the guns.
We should not have a single wavering thought--a single question--a single misgiving.
This larger excursion into speech gave her courage, and she said more; and even as Guida listened hungrily--so soon had come upon her the apprehensions and wavering moods of loving woman!
His face was as pale as ever, but his glance was firm and penetrating, instead of wavering and uncertain.
The night birds rose screaming from the rocks, and began their wavering flight.
At that instant a tall, white figure seemed to come wavering forward out of the wall.
In the shining clouds Felix saw, as if in wavering flame, beautiful castles all of rubies and other precious stones.
At the beginning of the opera she is urging her wavering lover to action, when Annius brings the unexpected tidings that Titus has banished his mistress Berenice from Rome.
Sextus is a purely passive instrument, wavering between love and remorse, without force or decision.
For the moment he was the Dangerfield of the first days, creature of wavering temperament and undisciplined impulses.
The mist that was wavering in his brain seemed to vanish at the sound of her words.
Little motes floated up and down these thin blue bars, wavering in the uncertain light and then lost in the darkness.
Neither did he think that the disunited and wavering powers of Europe would venture to declare war against a nation that proclaimed peace so long as we did not attack them.
It is evident, by the expression of their features, by their tears, that they are wavering between their pity for so terrible a reverse of fortune and their conscience as patriots.
He vociferated tales of terror; he disseminated the fever; he electrified the wavering masses; he urged on the current; he was in himself a sedition.
It was enough to form the happiness of a man and the ornament of a court: to inspire a wavering monarch, and be the safeguard of a state under trying circumstances, something more is requisite.
Their views moderate, and wavering between revolution and conservatism, desired that the one should conquer without violence, and the other concede without vindictiveness.
The habitual expression of this visage was that of superficial serenity on a serious mind, and a smile wavering betwixt sarcasm and condescension.
We have just seen how it seeks to enervate his resolutions, to pledge him irrevocably to that wavering policy, more to be dreaded for him than the projects of assassination about which, right or wrong, so much noise has been made.
Under this anguish of mind she was irresolute, and wavering from day to day as to her plan of conduct.
He still walked onward, if that movement could be so described, which rather resembled the wavering effort of an infant, with its mother's arms in view, outstretched to tempt him forward.
This direct appeal from the conspirators seems to have startled the Spanish Government from its wavering policy.
Under these circumstances Buckingham displayed all the wavering confusion of mind which characterises an inefficient commander.
