In the gloom of early evening Chris spoke my name hesitatingly. ❋ V.C. Andrews (1979)
He was a very respectable man who had amassed a decent fortune from the sale of iron bedsteads; yet how could I bring myself to think that this embarrassed-looking, ill-dressed, timid little creature could, with a word hesitatingly uttered, unite me in eternal bonds? ❋ Various (N/A)
She pronounced his name hesitatingly, half appealingly. ❋ Unknown (1921)
Colin '– hesitatingly,' I did think you'd have come and looked after an old friend at the big Show in the Botanical Gardens when the Governor made his State Entry. ' ❋ Unknown (1915)
"A being akin to yourself," he said in low tones, "only developed, enormously developed; a Master in your own peculiar region, and a man whose influence acting upon you at close quarters could not fail to arouse the latent mind-storms" -- he chose the word hesitatingly, as though seeking for a better he could not find on the moment, -- "always brewing in you just below the horizon." ❋ Algernon Blackwood (1910)
The opposite wall took up the name hesitatingly and tossed it back. ❋ Henry Herbert Knibbs (1909)
"Knowing --" he took up the word hesitatingly -- "knowing that life would be insupportable to me if I could not be near you." ❋ Harold Frederic (1877)
He took a few steps, then stopped, and called hesitatingly over his shoulder, "I thought maybe I'd come an 'set a spell to-night." ❋ Alice Brown (1902)
"Y-e-s," hesitatingly, "but I would like mighty well to go with Carrie." ❋ Ruth Alberta Brown (N/A)
I am nephew to the Duke of Devon, and "-- hesitatingly --" possibly the next heir to the title. ❋ H. R. Naylor (N/A)
"I 'ain't been well; but --- but," hesitatingly, "I'm glad you've come to see me." ❋ Minie Herbert (N/A)
"I knew," hesitatingly, "that Uncle Joe had borrowed for our expenses, but I didn't know how he did it." ❋ Caroline Lockhart (1916)
But, "hesitatingly," can you tell me this: You did not do it because you needed money -- for me? ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
But, "hesitatingly," to buy may mean paying tremendous prices, may it not? ❋ Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1907)
Unless "-- hesitatingly --" you should cause Agnew's arrest, and have him taken before the man who was cheated. ❋ Burt L. Standish (1905)
"It was in the papers, and -- and --" hesitatingly, "I called on him." ❋ Fergus Hume (1895)
Miss Milly, do you know, "-- hesitatingly, --" I'd liever take some out of the 'lection expenses share, than to pass over the Yorkes. ❋ Unknown (1875)
