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Paused in sentence

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For aught I know, it may be a reference to Pickwick himself, who has most unquestionably been a criminally slow coach during the whole of this transaction, but whose speed will now be very unexpectedly accelerated, and whose wheels, gentlemen, as he will find to his cost, will very soon be greased by you!'Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz paused in this place, to see whether the jury smiled at his joke; but as nobody took it but the greengrocer, whose sensitiveness on the subject was very probably occasioned by his having subjected a chaise-cart to the process in question on that identical morning, the learned Serjeant considered it advisable to undergo a slight relapse into the dismals before he concluded.
Mr. Winkle had not yet sufficiently recovered the recollection of his evidence at the trial, to make any observation on any subject, so Mr. Pickwick paused in vain.
Touched they were; for, instead of then and there making an attempt to commit man- slaughter, as Mr. Pickwick implicitly believed they would have done, they paused, stared at each other a short time, and finally laughed outright.
'I takes my determination on principle, Sir,' remarked Sam, 'and you takes yours on the same ground; wich puts me in mind o' the man as killed his-self on principle, wich o' course you've heerd on, Sir.'Mr. Weller paused when he arrived at this point, and cast a comical look at his master out of the corners of his eyes.
The cobbler paused to ascertain what effect his story had produced on Sam; but finding that he had dropped asleep, knocked the ashes out of his pipe, sighed, put it down, drew the bed- clothes over his head, and went to sleep, too.
He paused once, and only once, to draw a long breath, but without raising his face from the vessel, which, in a few moments thereafter, he held out at arm's length, bottom upward.
Upon this the cabman, who in a sudden effort to pull up at the house with the green door, had pulled the horse up so high that he nearly pulled him backward into the cabriolet, let the animal's fore-legs down to the ground again, and paused.
He paused for a few seconds, and added in a voice broken by emotion, 'You have loved her from a child, my friend.
He paused a few moments, and added, less firmly than before--'But this chaise, my young friend, will only hold two; and I am pledged to Mr. Allen.''Don't think of me for a minute,' replied Bob.
Having delivered this manifesto (which formed a portion of his last week's leader) with vehement articulation, the editor paused to take breath, and looked majestically at Bob Sawyer.
Mr. Weller paused with an aspect of intense disgust, and looking round, added in a whisper,'They wos all widders, Sammy, all on 'em, 'cept the camomile-tea vun, as wos a single young lady o' fifty-three.'
I could take care of his property when you are away--good care, you see.'Heaving a long-drawn sigh, Mr. Stiggins paused for a response.
Yellow fever, perhaps--can't help that --if not--'Here Mr. Jingle paused, and striking the crown of his hat with great violence, passed his hand over his eyes, and sat down.
Having paused a few seconds to recover breath, he brushed his hat with his elbow, and declared himself ready.
Here Mr. Pell shook his head and paused; on which, the elder Mr. Weller, nudging his neighbour, as begging him to mark the attorney's high connections, asked whether the duties in question produced any permanent ill effects on the constitution of his noble friend.
Here Mr. Pickwick paused, and a low murmur ran round the table.
Mr. Pickwick paused again: Emily and Arabella sobbed audibly.
A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and in the passage, paused immediately outside the door.
"Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge pinch of snuff.
At eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door and looked back.
She paused over it for some time with indignant astonishment; then read it again and again; but every perusal only served to increase her abhorrence of the man, and so bitter were her feelings against him, that she dared not trust herself to speak, lest she might wound Marianne still deeper by treating their disengagement, not as a loss to her of any possible good but as an escape from the worst and most irremediable of all evils, a connection, for life, with an unprincipled man, as a deliverance the most real, a blessing the most important.
He paused for her assent and compassion; and she forced herself to say, "Your expenses both in town and country must certainly be considerable; but your income is a large one."
Fanny paused a moment, and then, with fresh vigor, said, "My love I would ask them with all my heart, if it was in my power.
Kate paused to say a word to Mrs. Estes, who was bound on an errand further into the city; then she mounted the steps with the doctor.
Now, at the moment when I left his house--"Here Aramis paused.
"Your goodness confounds me, monseigneur," replied d’Artagnan, "and I am conscious of a greatness of soul in your Eminence that makes me mean as an earthworm; but since Monseigneur permits me to speak freely--"D’Artagnan paused.
He paused, exchanged two words with the sentinel; then the door opened, and he appeared.
"There was, no doubt, in my look, my voice, my whole person, that sincerity of gesture, of attitude, of accent, which carries conviction to the most perverse minds, for he paused.
I paused, but I had already drunk half a glass.
The novice let her speak, then seeing that she paused, she said, "Don’t you know a gentleman named Athos?"
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