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One glance back at the fiery torrent, which even the children were trying to turn from the town, and he realized how important was even one man's labor in this battle with the flames. A man on crutches was standing near him as he paused irresolutely, and to him George said, hurriedly: "I left a pair of horses in a light carriage in that shed up yonder when the fire first broke out.
As the Big Business Man spoke, the little figure, which had evidently been watching them for some time, turned irresolutely as though about to run. Then with gathering courage it began walking slowly towards them, holding out its arms with the palm up. "He's friendly," whispered the Very Young Man; and they waited, silent, as the man approached.
She looked irresolutely at Pelle. For a moment Pelle felt an inordinate longing to throw himself upon this man and strike him to the ground, but then he met Hanne's eyes, which wore an expression as though she was longing for some means of shaking him off. "Well, it looks as if one was in the way here!" he thought. "And what does it all matter to me?"
I'm afraid you are engaged for it, aren't you?" Lillian gazed fixedly at the white cupola on a stockfarm building. Her heart was somewhere deep in hill-grass. She was the most luckless girl in the whole college! The opportunity of her Sophomore year had come too late. It was bitter enough for tears. "I had promised it to Mr. Perkins," she said, irresolutely. "I was afraid so.
He did not once look back at her; his face seemed full of thought, his hands acting as it were mechanically. After he had gone a few rods from the house, he stopped, stood still for some minutes meditatingly, then went on irresolutely, halted again, but finally went on, and disappeared from sight among the low foothills to the east. Sighing deeply, Ramona turned back to her work.
Anon they came upon a group of soldiers who were standing somewhat perfunctorily and irresolutely close by the open gate of the Fort. "Tiens c'est l'Anglais!" said one. "Morbleu! he is on his way back to England," commented another lazily. The gates of Boulogne had been thrown open to everyone when the Angelus was rung and the cannon boomed.
"Are you reading? I felt dull by myself, and have come just for a minute . . . to have a peep at you." I remember one evening she went in like that, irresolutely and inappropriately, and sank on the rug at Orlov's feet, and from her soft, timid movements one could see that she did not understand his mood and was afraid.
He came out and walked to me across the few yards of meadow. The haying was over, so he did the grass no harm. He came and stood near me, irresolutely, looking vaguely up and across the valley towards the further woods, and then gently towards what I was drawing.
"I wonder which bed she would like," said Hinpoha, standing irresolutely in the center of the floor with her armful of bedding. "Here she comes now," announced Agony. "Let's wait and ask her." "Well, she wouldn't want this one anyway," remarked Sahwah, as she straightened the mattress on her bed preparatory to spreading the sheets, "it sags in the middle like everything.
Burchel advanced irresolutely a few steps towards the company, bowed, and was silent. "The person that first entered was Mr. Bromley. He instantly seized hold of Burchel, and shook him very heartily by the hand. "Ha, my boy, said he, have we found you? Well, and how? safe and sound? Eh? clapping him upon the shoulder.
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