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Paused in sentence

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'Oh, Kitty wished me to have a talk with you about Oblonsky,' he said, when Lvov paused on the stairs as he was seeing his wife and Levin down.
When he had said enough and paused, the Colonel, who till then had kept silent, began also to talk about the opera and about the lighting of the opera-house.
He paused at the drawing-room door.
Vronsky paused, looked at Koznyshev, recognized him, and advancing a few steps to meet him, pressed his hand very very hard.
Standing in the cool shade of the newly-thatched barn, with its wattle walls of hazel, which had not yet shed its scented leaves, pressed against the freshly stripped aspens of the roof-tree under the thatch, he looked now through the open doorway into which the dry and bitter chaff-dust rushed and whirled, at the grass round the threshing-floor lit up by the hot sunshine and at the fresh straw that had just been brought out of the barn, now at the bright-headed and white-breasted swallows that flew in chirping beneath the roof and, flapping their wings, paused in the light of the doorway, and now at the people who bustled about in the dark and dusty barn; and he thought strange thoughts:'Why is all this being done?' he wondered.
The Canadian paused for a short while before replying.
The Canadian paused in his work.
Julien paused for a breathing-space in the shadow of these great rocks, then went on climbing.
Just as K. paused for a while some young girls ran out of one of the flats and rushed higher up the stairs, laughing.
I feathered some two feet high, and I paused at the end of each stroke to let the blades drip before returning them, and I picked out a smooth bit of water to drop them into again each time.
There was one great dent across the top that had the appearance of a mocking grin, and it drove us furious, so that Harris rushed at the thing, and caught it up, and flung it far into the middle of the river, and as it sank we hurled our curses at it, and we got into the boat and rowed away from the spot, and never paused till we reached Maidenhead.
We had made the tea, and were just settling down comfortably to drink it, when George, with his cup half-way to his lips, paused and exclaimed:"What's that?""What's what?" asked Harris and I."Why that!" said George, looking westward.
For a moment he paused, as if debating with his politeness, but at length threw an inquiring glance on the stranger, as he inquired,-"To whose health am I to have the honor of drinking?"
He paused a moment, as the person of Harper met his view, and then, in a more formal manner, repeated the request he had before made through the servant.
For an instant Harper paused in silent admiration of the lovely pleader, and then, folding her hands on his breast, he replied solemnly, "I cannot, and I will not."
To Sarah and her aunt he paid his compliments with ease and kindness; but when he came to Frances, he paused a moment, while his face assumed an expression of more than ordinary benignity.
The heart of Frances beat with a pulsation nearly stifling, as he paused for a moment, and took a survey of the building, with an eye whose dark and sparkling glance could be seen, notwithstanding the distance.
Again she paused, and almost gasped for breath; her color changed rapidly from red to white, until the blood rushed into her face, covering her features with the brightest vermilion; and she added hastily, in an undertone, "I have promised, Dunwoodie, when peace shall be restored to our country, to become your wife.
He paused, mused in silence, glanced his eyes uneasily at Frances, and muttered in an undertone, "Singleton requires it, and it must be done."
After fleeing a short distance they paused, and the maiden commenced in a solemn voice,-"Oh!Caesar, was it not dreadful to walk before he had been laid in his grave!
Thus solicited, Katy paused to collect sufficient eloquence to garnish her narrative.
In such cases, the lights - " the surgeon accidentally caught the eye of the trooper and he paused.
This office ended, the neighbors, who had officiously pressed forward to offer their services in performing their solemn duty, paused, and lifting their hats, stood looking towards the mourner, who now felt himself to be really alone in the world.
"Had you seen him when he was brought in by Major Dunwoodie - "Frances paused, with a feeling of conscious shame, for which she could not account; and, in raising her eyes, she saw Isabella studying her countenance with an earnestness that again drove the blood tumultuously to her temples.
Dunwoodie paused a moment, from reluctance to triumph over a fallen foe, before he proceeded.
The officers paused in astonishment; but the surgeon cried eagerly,-"Hold him, while I administer an emetic."
For an instant, as Lawton mentioned the Skinners, she had paused, but immediately resuming her course, she was soon out of sight, among the trees.
But as if the invitation contained new terrors, the footman redoubled his efforts, nor paused even to breathe, until he had reached his goal, when, turning on his heel, he discharged his musket towards the surgeon, and was out of sight in an instant.
On opening it, he paused for a moment, in admiration at the scene within.
"If, madam, a plain ring, that once belonged to a sister of my own - " He paused and hemmed - "If, madam, a ring of that description might be admitted to this honor, I have one that could be easily produced from my quarters at the Corners, and I doubt not it would fit the finger for which it is desired.
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