1 She did not answer, and after a moment's hesitation he went up and opened her door.
2 Mammy rallied to her with never a moment's hesitation.
3 He had no hesitation about stripping them verbally, even under his own roof, always in a manner that left them no reply.
4 Meanwhile Mrs. Haffen, prompt to perceive her hesitation, had already opened the packet and ranged its contents on the table.
5 She refused to pay the price named, and after a moment's hesitation, met it by a counter-offer of half the amount.
6 The women's faces, as she paused interrogatively on the threshold, were a study in hesitation.
7 One bore the address of a bank, and as it was stamped and sealed, Selden, after a moment's hesitation, laid it aside.
8 Lena drew close to me, and the little hesitation in her voice that had hurt me was not there when she spoke again.
9 And Stanislovas took it, and after a little more hesitation, started for the door.
10 After a few drinks Goldberger began, with some hesitation, to narrate how he had had a quarrel over his best girl with a professional "cardsharp," who had hit him in the jaw.
11 He was passing one of Chicago's innumerable small hotels, and after some hesitation he concluded to go in.
12 They complied without hesitation, though many a fearful and anxious glance was thrown behind them, toward the thickening gloom, which now lay like a dark barrier along the margin of the stream.
13 He advanced to seize it without the least hesitation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 14 They would doubtless question him with sneers, and laugh at his stammering hesitation.
15 Tales of hesitation and uncertainty on the part of those high in place and responsibility came to their ears.