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"Hesitancy" Quotes from Famous Books

... carefully—and classed him immedialely as a romantic figure. He gave the effect of towering self-confidence erected on a slight foundation—just under the surface of each of his decisions she discerned a hesitancy that was in decided contrast to the ...

— Flappers and Philosophers • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... dissimulation both in speech and manner appeared perfect. By the keen eye of Carlos, however—with his knowledge of the true situation—the tremor of the speaker's lips, slight as it was—his uneasy glance—and an occasional hesitancy in his speech, were all observed. Though Carlos was deceiving him, he was not ...

— The White Chief - A Legend of Northern Mexico • Mayne Reid

... tells us, "held his auditors in a sort of fascination. One felt that in his explanations there was not a flaw, not a hesitancy. All seemed ...

— Foch the Man - A Life of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies • Clara E. Laughlin

... all her air of hesitancy. She had, as she was wont to say, talked herself enthusiastic, and in the ardour of her purpose to annihilate the misunderstanding that had troubled her so long she felt herself ...

— Trent's Last Case - The Woman in Black • E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley

... situation was not improved by Pultusk, Eylau, or Friedland. Dissensions in the field were not concealed by the hallelujahs and hosannas of the populace in the cities; victory bore no fruits; without Austria the next step could not be taken, and hesitancy still marked that uneasy monarchy as its own. Prussia, although the principal in the fight, was but a feeble power. England, though reaping the harvest of Russia's commerce, had become niggardly in regard to subsidies, and had delayed ...

— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. III. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane

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