...Believe me, a country that hesitates and fears war is conquered before the first battle...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...Bull-with-a-beard stood mumbling, swaying his great head from side to side, no longer suggestive of a bear about to charge, but of one who hesitates...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...When his fits are upon him he very strongly reminds me of a wild beast which hesitates to attack so long as one faces it boldly, but springs the instant that one’s back is turned...
Harry Collingwood 「A Middy of the Slave Squadron」
... which hesitates between ...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...In the course of feeding it wades unconcernedlythrough pools of shallow water, and, if so minded, hesitates neitherto swim nor to dive...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...It rushes forward, recoils, hesitates and returns to thecharge...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...When removed by force and then left to its own devices, the creature hesitates for a long time, stretches itself and mouths around, without trying to open a passage through a new wound...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...My heel sometimes hesitates before coming down upon the handful which I have gathered...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...Forthwith, the troop stops, hesitates, takes a half turn and once more retreats towards the darkness...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...She hesitates for a long time, goes away, comes back, flies away again and soon returns, eager to deposit her treasure...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...The second caterpillar, promoted to captain,knows the duties of his rank off-hand: he selects and leads, or ratherhe hesitates and gropes...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...—"A gentleman hesitates to bother anybodywhose mind is concentrated on his fishing...
Charles Bradford 「The Determined Angler and the Brook Trout」
...This condition is so antagonisticto all our ideas of what constitutes habitabilityfor a planet that one hesitates to accept it as proved, andalmost hopes that it may turn out to have no real existence...
Garrett Serviss 「Pleasures of the telescope」
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