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Hesitated in sentence

201 examples of Hesitated in a sentence

At this moment the four Guards appeared at the door of the antechamber, but seeing four Musketeers standing, and their swords by their sides, they hesitated about going farther.
Bonacieux saw that he hesitated.
Bonacieux hesitated to continue.
They still hesitated an instant; but, as before, pride prevailed, and a second kick split the door from bottom to top.
Milady looked at this man, and hesitated.
"Here is the knife," said Felton, drawing from his pocket the weapon which he had brought, according to his promise, but which he hesitated to give to his prisoner.
The mendicant hesitated at first, but at the sight of the piece of silver which shone in the darkness he consented, and walked on before Athos.
Grimaud hesitated.
Like myself, he hesitated; he could recognise nothing again amidst this monotonous scene.
I hesitated but could not escape the question.
With a few broken words of gratitude the man turned, but he hesitated and then came back.
Barrymore hesitated for a moment, as if he regretted his outburst, or found it difficult to express his own feelings in words.
She hesitated and looked down.
"What he says is true," said his master; "but it would have been strange indeed if I had hesitated to sacrifice a frail life and failing health in a cause for which I freely surrendered all that youth had to offer.
But, however this remonstrance might have staggered or delayed his determination, I do not suppose that it would ultimately have prevented the marriage, had it not been seconded by the assurance that I hesitated not in giving, of your sister's indifference.
Elizabeth hesitated, but her knees trembled under her and she felt how little would be gained by her attempting to pursue them.
Now what have you to say?""Only this; that if he is so, you can have no reason to suppose he will make an offer to me."Lady Catherine hesitated for a moment, and then replied:"The engagement between them is of a peculiar kind.
Had he himself been as well acquainted with the art of sailing in the air as he was with the navigation of a ship, Pencroft would not have hesitated to set out, of course taking his young friend Herbert with him; for, accustomed to brave the fiercest tempests of the ocean, he was not to be hindered on account of the hurricane.
But on beholding the convulsed masses heaped up on the left, no geologist would have hesitated to give them a volcanic origin, for they were unquestionably the work of subterranean convulsions.
But while these men, who really hesitated at nothing, were talking, the hour approached at which the observation was to be made.
At night he talked about it in his sleep, and certainly if he had had the means of attacking it, if the sloop had been in a fit state to put to sea, he would not have hesitated to set out in pursuit.
The English Admiralty having hesitated to undertake this search, Lord Glenarvan resolved to attempt everything to find the captain.
Ayrton hesitated at first to reply, and Cyrus Harding regretted that Pencroft had so thoughtlessly put this question.
"And yet, if it had been necessary to operate," said Harding one day to him, "you would not have hesitated?"
He still hesitated to give the signal for departure; but that would have driven Herbert to despair--killed him perhaps.
Neb, who was watching near the poultry-yard, had not hesitated to fire at one of the pirates, who was about to cross the stream; but in the darkness he could not tell whether the man had been hit or not.
The colonists now hesitated.
In their excited state they would not have hesitated to do it.
Toby never hesitated or swerved, but waddled on in his peculiar rolling fashion.
Abdullah Khan, however, thinking that I hesitated, pressed the matter more closely.
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