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That swift and sure justice which overtook the horse-stealer in these altitudes was stayed a moment and hesitated, for the victim was clearly the mysterious unknown. Curiosity got the better of an extempore judge and jury.
James's Park should have seemed in any way worthy of notice except that, for certain reasons, she reminded me of my first wife. I observed that she hesitated between one of the public seats and two vacant chairs standing by themselves a little farther to the east.
She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the Queen continued: "When Bulukiya saw the host in fight, he felt sore affright and was perplexed about his case; but whilst he hesitated, behold, they caught sight of him and held their hands one from other and left fighting.
I was walking out of a house which I occupied there for a time, and as I swung around the corner into the main street, I ran into literally ran into...." Again he hesitated oddly; then closed up his pouch and tossed it into the cane chair. He struck a match. "I ran into Kâramanèh," he continued abruptly, and began to puff away at his pipe, filling the air with clouds of tobacco smoke.
It is commonly thought that a mule is a stupider creature than the horse; but I have never found a person, who was well acquainted with both animals, who hesitated to place the mongrel in the intellectual grade above the pure-blood animal. There is, it is true, a decided difference in the mental qualities of the two creatures.
She hesitated, took three steps toward the cedar chest, then fled ingloriously from the field. Whoever Charles Winfeld was, he was free to love and marry again. Perhaps there had been an estrangement and it was he for whom Aunt Jane was waiting, since sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distil forgiveness.
"Thou art insistent." "Thou didst promise," she whispered, her face so close to his that the light from the facets of her emeralds turned on his cheek. He took up his pen and wrote. "Now promise that the signet shall go back to Mentu," she continued. "As thou wilt, Ta-user," the king replied. She caught up the roll, hesitated for a moment, and then kissed his cheek deliberately and was gone.
For the first time that night John Silence hesitated; the thought of that dark narrow hall-way, choked with fog, and destitute of human comfort, was unpleasant. He became aware of a faint creeping of his flesh.
The loony thing then betrayed me to another bounder who happened in, but I found a way out and up onto the roof where I have been for quite some time now waiting for a chance to get down into the street without being seen. That's all I know, but I haven't the slightest idea in the world where to look for Miss Kircher." "Where were you going now?" asked Tarzan. Smith-Oldwick hesitated.
To his surprise, McGee, whose calm eyes had never dimmed or blenched, after regarding him curiously, took the volume from him, laid it on the table, opened it, turned its leaves critically, said earnestly, "That's the law here, is it?" and then held out his hand. "Shake!" Madison Wayne hesitated and then grasped his hand.
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