"Hesitancy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... setting that matched his beauty, easily establishing his dominion over the world as he had established it over her being from the moment of his conception. There was a conflict raging in him which, since it never resulted in hesitancy, but in simultaneous snatchings at life by both of the warring forces, gave him the appearance of the calmest exultation. He loved riding and dancing and gambling so much that his face was cruel when he did those things, as if he would kill anybody who tried to interrupt him ...
— The Judge • Rebecca West
... With appropriate hesitancy the events of the afternoon were graphically pictured for the Empress. When they were completely drawn she said with the grimness of Fate: "You may go, but remember, not one word to your companions." A most superfluous admonition, ...
— A Dixie School Girl • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... this is the place, have thou then no hesitancy in trusting the business to thy most loving friend, who would be thy aptest scholar ...
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace
... for a good many years. Representing a neighboring State, as he did in the Senate, I became very intimate with him, and never had the slightest hesitancy in seeking his advice when I was in doubt concerning any ...
— Fifty Years of Public Service • Shelby M. Cullom
... the Spaniard's manner while telling his story. There was a gloomy hesitancy and subterfuge about it. It was just the manner of one making up his tale for evil purposes, as he goes. But if that story was not true, what was the truth? That the ship had unlawfully come into the Spaniard's ...
— The Piazza Tales • Herman Melville
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