1 There was a pause for a few moments, and then the low insidious sound was repeated.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE 2 Never mind, he continued, more brightly, after a pause.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION 3 That gave the animals pause, and there was a hush.
4 There was a pause, during which Mr. Utterson struggled with himself.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER 5 After this fourth encounter, there was a considerable pause; nor did it appear that any one was very desirous of renewing the contest.
6 A few minutes pause having been allowed, that the combatants and their horses might recover breath, Prince John with his truncheon signed to the trumpets to sound the onset.
7 Here he made a considerable pause, and Gurth had good hope that the last three pieces might escape the fate of their comrades; but the enumeration proceeded.
8 I see," said Wamba, after a short pause, "that the fool must be still the fool, and put his neck in the venture which wise men shrink from.
9 An awful pause of horror silenced each murmur of the armed spectators, who, for the space of several minutes, stirred not a finger, save to sign the cross.
10 Surely we will pause ere we give an office so high to one who shows evidently how little he reverences our blood, by his so readily undertaking this enterprise against Richard.
11 There was a pause; all eyes turned to Brain de Bois-Guilbert.
12 The trumpets again sounded, and there was a dead pause of many minutes.
13 There was a long pause of silence, a cold silence.
14 There was another pause, then another start; but more ineffectual than before.
15 There was a pause and a dead silence.