Halting

Examples

• Look upon this damosel; note her wasted form, her halting step, her bloomless cheeks where youth should blush and happiness exult in smiles! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• These too were carried before halting, and before the enemy had time to reinforce their advance guards. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They had passed through Datchet without halting. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They travelled in the night, halting an hour or two after daybreak, and lying by until the twilight fell. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• They have been halting somewhere till now. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Leaving the port of Bremenhaven on June 18th, and halting at Heligoland for four days to train its crew, it made its way across the Atlantic in sixteen days. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Sherman left Jackson with the last of his troops about noon on the 16th and reached Bolton, twenty miles west, before halting. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But the probability of other islands having once existed as halting-places, of which not a wreck now remains, must not be overlooked. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I hear the rain-drip on the stones, replies the young man, and I hear a curious echo--I suppose an echo--which is very like a halting step. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He looked like--Bye the bye,' exclaimed the old gentleman, halting very abruptly, and staring up into the sky, 'Bless my soul! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I always loved that boy as if he'd been my--my--my own grandfather,' said Mr. Bumble, halting for an appropriate comparison. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• They had it in charge to prepare our halting places and our nightly abode. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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