Pauses

Examples

• Sir Leicester pauses, stares, repeats in a killing voice, The young man of the name of Guppy? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The visitor pauses a moment to give my Lady an opportunity, but she says nothing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In one of those pauses she recoiled and cried out, for she saw a figure standing in the room. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He pauses, but she makes no reply. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• By degrees, in the pauses of his quick and laboured breathing, he was heard to say: What is this? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Luckily, the beadwork parrot could not talk, but its creator could, and did, with as few pauses as possible. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The banker's speech was fluent, but it was also copious, and he used up an appreciable amount of time in brief meditative pauses. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Allan Woodcourt pauses to look after him and note all this, with a shadowy belief that he has seen the boy before. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Miss Fairlie seemed to feel the oppression of the long pauses in the conversation, and looked appealingly to her sister to fill them up. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Attracted by curiosity, he often pauses and looks about him, up and down the miserable by-ways. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He was not crying when he made the pauses I shall express by lines. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She made the statement clearly, deliberately, with pauses between the sentences, so that each should have time to sink deeply into her hearer's mind. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He steals softly over the grass, careful to make no sound; he pauses--fancying she has stirred: he withdraws: not for worlds would he be seen. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He pauses here to smile, and his smile is as dull and rusty as his pantaloons. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr. Chadband draws back his head and pauses, but Mr. Snagsby is not to be lured on to his destruction again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He looked about him, at the pauses in the music, serenely satisfied with himself and his fellow-creatures. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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