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And folding my arms I kept my eyes intently upon his, so that he should not see that I wavered.
He ran splashing toward the bank, turned, and seemed to waver, staring with wild eyes at the strange Tudor weapon in his hand.
I felt then, what I had always known, that I loved him even while I hated him, and for an instant I wavered.
For a long time I could not see the hand; but, presently, I thought I saw, once or twice, an odd wavering, over among the shadows near the door.
Let us resign all glory and honor and power to the Ancient of Days, prime source of the strength of wavering, weak mankind.
The man sat up, propping himself on his hands and looked at her, a wavering smile on his lips.
Her attention was distracted by sounds which to him had no meaning; and her judgment she felt was wavering and disturbed.
The balance may waver one way or the other at times, but it cannot fail to weigh truly at last.
The whole was terminated by an immense canopy of smoke, and an explosion that caused the sails of the distant "Dart" to waver, as though the winds of the trades were deserting their eternal direction.
It is not so much the unhappy marriages I have met with that make me so wavering, but the few happy ones I have seen; at the remembrance of these I ask myself, "Is it possible I could be so happy?"
Find him twenty farms just the size for his capital, he will visit them all and discover a fault in each, and waver and waver till the proper season for entering on possession is past.
The gray figures wavered, hesitated, melted back into the smoke, and then strove to work around the fire of the death-spitting group.
It was such a strange, sickly, wavering gleam as she had seen above decaying wood, fish, and other substances.
He stood, looking at her, looking at her, till at last her wide eyes wavered and sank before his own.
After she dressed and left the room without their having dared to say anything to each other, I wavered between two doubts.
Indeed, the interest her uncle now expressed for the children, for a moment, almost made her waver in her resolution, but in her characteristic way she did not venture to show any signs of it.
He was bent, also, on success, and if under the long strain the people should weaken or waver, he was determined to maintain the army at all hazards.
Then I saw long lines wavering in a strange manner in the midst of the darkness, and that at a depth where no human eye had ever penetrated.
In the evenings it wavered more and more, and there were long intervals when the light vanished on the walls and ceiling.
By this time he was several sheets in the wind, while I could walk a chalk line without a waver.
From the time he applied himself to the ill-requited work of journalism he never wavered or turned aside in his purpose to make it the ladder to literary recognition.
There was in her a joyous, if still wavering certainty that through the child, her hold upon Philip, whether he spoke sooner or later, was now secure.
There was plenty of light, but the flickering shadows of the trees caused by the wavering flames made the steps of the boys uncertain as they fled from the flames that were following so fast.
It was with a sense of inward pride that she remembered that her faith in him had never wavered, even though it was not until Conquest forced her that she had confessed the fact.
That side was profoundly grateful, for they put heart into the timid, decided the wavering, and left the Tory writers without a leg to stand on.
Her gaze wavered till the eyelids fell, and she stood absolutely motionless, the tears still on her cheek.
It runs in great parallel lines wavering into vast hills and valleys, but preserving the parallel pattern; as if drawn boldly but accurately with gigantic chalks of green and gray and red and yellow.
Little as the King had done to merit the deep devotion of such a nature as hers, the Maid's loving loyalty towards, and faith in him never wavered.
She did not speak to him, but when his voice suddenly wavered and broke, she addressed herself to the King, speaking as one who repeats a message.
Robert went with him to the door, and for a moment he wavered on the steps, blinking, and squeezing his soft hat between his bony hands.
His resolution to tell her his errand began to waver; it seemed cruel, he thought, to disturb a person who was evidently so ill with a matter so serious.
It will have a tendency to waver, and move to some other object or subject, and much practice will be needed in order to hold it at the desired point.
Now, as soon as her husband became aware that she was watching him, his look wavered, and his mood collapsed.
This endured for a year before it began to waver; and the wavering was soon followed by headlong obsession which fed on itself.
The smoke rose, wavered, and went up, and then some breath of wind took it and drifted it gently into the open temple, winding it round the head of Thor's image and filling all the little building.
For she seemed to him to waver as he approached her, and the porter who had taken her rugs and bag was looking at her in astonishment.
To hold the projecting pole levered up at that height was a test of weight and muscle, even without their man on the end of it; but there were plenty more to help pull, did their united force waver.
The stiff, slight figure, like a strained wand, did not waver for a moment before the grave indignation of the older woman.
And if my optimism ever wavers, I have but to think of the noble work that many priests are to my own knowledge doing, often in remote and obscure parishes, in the teeth of innumerable obstacles.
Then the sense of fair dealing that dominates every true gentleman rose within him and gripped his wavering emotions with ruthless force.
The flame wavered, paled by daylight, but shielding itself with strong smoke, and leaped from ledge to ledge.
They were out into the sunshine again, and in front stretched a wavering rock path, the narrow crown of a ridge whose sides sank sharply out of sight.
Nearer and nearer came the chief, and Billy felt his own horse wavering, and knew he was forced beyond his powers of endurance, and fearing he might fall with him, determined to act at once.
Now he stood there staring at it like a man whose senses waver, and who fixes some object to steady nerve and brain.
While you were in the smallest degree wavering, I said nothing about it, because I would not influence; but it would have been the loss of a friend to me.
The charge of a compact mass at a trot is much greater than that of a wavering one at a gallop.
That had but brought on them hardships and a stronger garrison, while Ethelred wavered and would not come.
Either of these leads to a sense of insecurity, to wavering attention, to "hit or miss" guess work, "rule-of- thumb methods," which are the signs of Traditional Management.
He resolved on one more shot, and in the empty air above the trunk he aimed and steadied his wavering rifle.
The officials obeyed their orders and searched out all, whether steadfast or wavering; and some, in order not to risk their faith, left their homes secretly.
The closing of the door behind his father sent a current of air across the room in which a bit of paper on the floor wavered and turned.
All she cared for now was to get to Ellen and pour out her troubles, and she was quite silent while she jumped ashore, although the wavering boat made her clutch Faith's hand hard.
Ishmael listened, sorry that even a rabbit should suffer on this night of nights, and was glad when the screaming wavered and died into a merciful stillness.
Even in the new fascination of the probable turn of the tide, Lincoln did not waver in his fixed purpose to give all his best energies, and the country's best energies, to the war.
An instant Fanny wavered, then with a half-fearful, half-joyful cry she went forward, and by the grave of the mother that day lowered to the dust, the sisters met in a long, fervent embrace.
We had intended to give him no tip, for on the yesterday he had refused to carry our bags, but this made us waver.
The silver mists of night wavered and sailed through the aisles of the forests, and from the river came the cool fresh perfume of the river rush.
She moved closer, standing behind him, needing to feel his reassuring presence which never wavered, and his friendship which never questioned.
The enemy, confused by the fact that the allies had already forced their line on the left, wavered.
The wind was damp and sweet; over in the field pale shapes of mist wavered and changed like phantoms.
Behind, a portion of the brigade of Guards was advancing to reinforce the wavering line and renew the attack.
She regarded him calmly, with a suggestion of mocking interest, until his own glance wavered and turned aside.
I would not stop to measure it; to look aside at her or any other lest one brief glance apart should send the arrow wavering from its course.
Her dark eyes never wavered from my face, nor did her hands relax their confident grasp of mine.
Her voice wavered in spite of herself; the young man's look and voice were shaking her through weakness of her own nature which she did not understand, but which might be mightier than her strength.
She drew her hand hastily across her eyes, and then, to his dismay, the sorrow for her loss emphasized her wavering belief in his guilt; for the first time he realized how strong that sorrow was.
The ghost of what he might have been, nay, what he could have made himself, rose wavering in his path.
I don't believe, if we pursue our course without wavering or weakening, there is any force in this country which can stand against us.
Now that she was about to turn her back on all that was familiar to her, she became serious and intense, but she knew no shadow of wavering.
And when this was reflected in the golden floor it was like the wavering shapes in water that is almost still, but yet has little waves that dance and break up every reflection that is seen in it.
She did see it, but had not so clearly realized it till he pointed it out, and for the first time she wavered in her conviction that he had come simply to deprive her of her rights.
Once safely landed on the platform, however, Long John spread out his feet to steady his wavering body and waved a hand in hearty greeting to the crowd which had assembled to welcome him home.
The poor man received his food daily from his missionary friend, with messages of cheer, and he never wavered.
The student, watching his blade and awaiting the attack, was surprised to see his point waver and drop.
It was only when she had done so much, when it remained only to unlock, that she wavered; that she trembled to think on what the crowd might be bent, and what might be her fate at their hands.
At five minutes after nine I felt the top of the table waver under my fingers, a curious, fluid-like motion.
Dry, desperate, rigid, she yet wavered and seemed uncertain; her pale, glittering eyes straining forward, as if they were looking for death.
I was putting my hair on wavers at the time, and I saw in the mirror that she had her hat and coat on, and the expression she wears when she has decided to break the law.
The spear-shaped flames of two tall candles, but half lit the room, making a circle of wavering light.
Released from the hands that held him, the fugitive seemed to waver for a moment between speech and flight.
The firmness of these principles was put to frequent trial during his Presidency, but his resolution never wavered.
They happened to stand still just at the moment, then they came along wavering, first to the right, then to the left.
From the instant the ball was put in play and the players leaped into action the interest of the spectators never wavered.
John left them for the night, wavering between confidence and despair as to the result of the morrow.
The glowing iron, from which little wavers of heat rose in the sun, he grasped in one hand; in the other his pistol, elbow close to his side, threatening the quarter from which interference had come.
These latter people, whose courage had leaked out overnight, now began to weigh again their business interests and personal safety in the balance of their wavering judgment.
They met the glance with the shine of innocence and truth that never wavered in their heavenly blue.
Still, as I watched the wavering image, the idea began to grow upon me that I had somewhere seen the craft before; and I tried for a long time to remember where it was, but without success.
She was an uncertain, wavering little woman, with no will of her own, and a heavy burden in the shape of a husband, who, during the last few years, had taken to fits of drinking.
That set me thinking once more about his people at home, and as I did, I began to waver, and call to mind how terrible it would be, and that I liked him too well in spite of all.
I could see them waver and attempt to turn back; but urged on by their officers, they again advanced.
His followers, however, remarked that an ominous change had come over him, and that his mind at times seemed wavering on its throne.
Others might prefer Miss Pennington; Charlotte never wavered in her admiration for the more quiet member of the firm.
Here it was that the First and Third brigades of Slocum's division saved the wavering line, and all the fury of the rebels was spent in vain.
The last words had been uttered in a tone high and wavering; and, as Ivan reached him, the life left his body, his cheeks grew gray, his eyes dulled, his breathing became fast and light.
What then was the best way to induce reluctant or wavering minds, and these, I supposed, were the majority, to give in their adhesion to the new symbol?
Seeing that she still wavered, Sir Donald gently says: "You need not tell me about anything, but what can I do for you?"
There was such infinite trust and tenderness in the child's voice that the big man wavered, put Bobby down on the floor, tore off his beard and blanket, and revealed himself as Master Mortimer.
A strayed butterfly went by in a wavering flight, seeking the sunshine and the flowers of the open fields.
By that time hope had begun to prop its wavering confidence, by looks turned back even to a remote past.