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Ahmed yawns shakes his head, unconvinced but faltering
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“Well, the Royal Folkness is” his words faltering as he realised his
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’ I put in, faltering slightly over the unfamiliar word
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First Altera raised her head and looked Naria in the eyes without faltering and continued,
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She even told him in a faltering voice her darkest secret; that she had always felt ‘alone’
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officer of the Crown,’ his slurred, faltering,
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faltering heart-beat, ‘What of the child?’ he finally
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But when he sucked one into his mouth, her legs turned to jelly, and she gripped tightly to his strong shoulders to support her faltering knees
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SEATING MISSING— FALTERING, AS THE FLOOR PROTESTED AGAINST
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He continued, though now he spoke though a faltering grin
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In the foreground Alan was in the water, he was faltering, falling
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And he stared out at the sea, watching the dark waves shuffle under a shaded and faltering sun
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Certainly, she was not nearly as substantial as the pasty that she endeavoured to transport, and as a result her progress towards the table was somewhat faltering and uncertain
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Widespread dents and holes in the hull, many windows blown out, lights inside faltering and the rear of the ship was burning, flames fed by the gases inside shooting out through gaps in the damaged hull
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’ His voice was faltering
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They were milling behind Adem and his friends, anxious for a charge though faltering due to the crowds that surged in front of them
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In a low, faltering voice, he explained how he had to continue his search for Boddaert's Magic now that winter had ended, and all of her entreaties had been in vain, because the young boar had remained adamant
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Pushing these thoughts to the back of my mind I looked out over the gently waving cereal heads, my breath faltering when I spotted two overlapping circles of flattened wheat
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concentration faltering and the magic haze diminishing as a
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“Not any of those,” she said, half faltering
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Seeing this, the Frances and Suizo infantry began moving against the faltering line
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“I’m sorry, Maggie,” he had said, faltering
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With faltering steps I stand at the stairway of your ancient temple
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While he spoke, Simon heard someone groan and, a moment later, Johan staggered to his feet, taking several faltering steps towards Annyeke who continued to lie across the Library’s broken stone slabs without moving
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It had been hurled by a Sylvan, and speeded on its way by the spells of thousands more, piercing his faltering Shields
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naturally chaotic, disordered, faltering
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Electronic instruments pinged and pulsed to his faltering
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“Do you recognize who this is?' she said, her voice faltering
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comes from faltering faith
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" Her voice was faltering a bit in the end
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I cried out, told him ‘whoa’ and felt Diomed slide to a stop and heard Beau’s faltering strides
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5 As the guards rallied from their first faltering at the sight of Jesus and at the sound of his unusual voice, and as the apostles and disciples drew nearer, Judas stepped up to Jesus and, placing a kiss upon his brow, said, "Hail, Master and Teacher
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Jake held out his hand and my father shook it without faltering They both had huge smiles on their faces like they were long lost friends
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"This is John-Paul?" Travis muttered the question, his voice faltering with surprise
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"Forgive me, Harry," she cried, her voice faltering
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"I couldn't come to the airport," she said, her voice faltering
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I smile back faltering
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Ida continued her investigative work, but left McClure’s in the early 1900s and went to The American Magazine, when the former was faltering
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Ambrosius could hear her take some faltering steps across the room and stop just on the edge of the darkness
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With faltering steps he tottered unsteadily to the door and opened it
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Somewhere in each of them there was some spark, some tiny, faltering spark that urged them to hang in there, for surely the universe is not so cruel a place as to snatch their beloved perspective from them so soon, when they had so much more to learn
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Ngo paid only a passing attention at first to the parachutist, as he had to do something about his faltering attack on the French outpost
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There was a faltering fan on the driftwood
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He was cold and fearfully tired, gasping for breath in the thin air, a numbing sensation clawing up his legs, his feet faltering
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Faltering in her own distractions Byron noticed the glassy touch of tears in her eyes and immediately regretted opening his mouth, though the type of regret that becomes an oxymoron, relieving regret, you shouldn't say, you do say, it had to be said, but it sucks
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Unprepared, and suffering from a painful history with love, Antonio’s faltering response breaks her heart
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Her steps gradually faltering, she touched
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He was reeling, his steps faltering, his head bowed in shame
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He took a faltering step toward her, and she moved easily away
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“I’m not coming,” said Kerry but there was a tone of faltering assurance
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It looked as though he was trying to feel his own, faltering heart
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He foresaw the collapse into Chaos and the faltering of the Balance
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could have been a wavering mirage of a faltering horned
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He bravely continued, trying to keep up his façade of believing she would wake, but his heart was faltering and his soul was already starting to mourn her loss
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weak and faltering are encouraged and strengthened; so that those of low
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After my business"s unexpected Libyan boom gave unmistakable signs of faltering, the thought that I should start moving to sell it lodged itself firmly in my mind
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Without faltering each man pressed up against the bars and grabbed a hold of a bar with one hand as they reached through them toward the beckoning softness of femininity with their free hand
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Steady, that was, right up until they were finally interrupted by the world, at which point Crystal saw it falter for the barest of moments, like the flicker of a light during a storm, and in that faltering knew that her prey had been captured
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is that… you?” he asked in a faltering voice
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My resolve was faltering, trying to fight back his lips found mine
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It gets its vitality through a growth process, continues with life, a spreading of an affection always forward-looking; anything else is an indication of a faltering marriage
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Lorry--the owner of the riding-coat upon the chair--who must not be seen? From whom newly arrived, did he come out, agitated and surprised, to take his favourite in his arms? To whom did he appear to repeat her faltering words, when, raising his voice and turning his head towards the door of the room from which he had issued, he said: "Removed to the Conciergerie, and summoned for to-morrow?"
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With slow faltering steps, with shaking knees, Raskolnikov made his way back to his little garret, feeling chilled all over
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"I thought, my father," said Lucie, excusing herself, with a pale face and in a faltering voice, "that I heard strange feet upon the stairs
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--and I hear him tell the child my story, with a tender and a faltering voice
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She threw back her white neck, swelling with a sigh, and faltering, in tears, with a long shudder and hiding her face, she gave herself up to him—
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"Oh! no; not there!" she said in a faltering voice
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Distraught, faltering, reeling, Charles wandered about the room
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The time to draw a breath, and I spoke out for the Cabinet without faltering
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Then let me tell you that you are doing just the reverse; the encouragement which you offer would have been all very well had I myself believed that I knew what I was talking about: to declare the truth about matters of high interest which a man honours and loves among wise men who love him need occasion no fear or faltering in his mind; but to carry on an argument when you are yourself only a hesitating enquirer, which is my condition, is a dangerous and slippery thing; and the danger is not that I shall be laughed at (of which the fear would be childish), but that I shall miss the truth where I have most need to be sure of my footing, and drag my friends after me in my fall
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When you are over-anxious about your presentation the raw emotion that makes for a successful presentation performance is replaced by a faltering, unstructured and disorganised speech
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" The steward left the room with a faltering step, and returned with a bundle of bank-notes, which the notary counted like a man who never gives a receipt for money until after he is sure it is all there
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Order being once more restored, the lecturer turned again to the drawing on the wall and stretched out his hand, evidently with the intention of making some addition to it, but instead of doing so lie paused irresolutely, and faltering, let his arm drop down again by his side
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But I had a reason that was an old reason now for constitutionally faltering whenever I heard the word "convict
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With his mailed gauntlet he brushed away a furtive tear and was overheard, by those privileged burghers who happened to be in his immediate entourage, to murmur to himself in a faltering undertone:
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At the end of a quarter of an hour a faltering footstep was heard, and Villefort appeared at the door of the apartment where d'Avrigny and Morrel had been staying, one absorbed in meditation, the other in grief
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And, pressing his handkerchief to his face, he left the room, with faltering
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It tended to fly with its tail dragging below its nose, something the airmen called “mushing,” a reference to the mushy feel of the controls of a faltering plane
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Maybe you would," the doctor said, with a roughness of tone intended to hide the sinking of his heart and the faltering of his voice
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‘He hates me, that’s clear,’ she thought, and in silence, without looking round, she walked with faltering steps out of the room
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The weeks of illness wore on and the life of the house kept pace with the faltering strength of the sick man
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It was but a momentary faltering; and considering what you have been to me, it was natural enough
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She should have put her foot down back at the apartment—he can’t just decide these things for her anymore—but the truth is, her resolve is faltering
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"I will not deny that you conjecture rightly," he answered, with a faltering in his tone
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Go was moving on to a story about her refrigerator light and showed no signs of faltering
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I had often admired it and I knew my way about in it; I had only, after just faltering at the first chill gloom of its disuse, to pass across it and unbolt as quietly as I could one of the shutters
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The woman hastened to the king's side, taking his arm, and with faltering
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” The next day the New York Times headlined more bad news: “Fed in $85 Billion Bailout Plan of Faltering Insurance Giant
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If, however, business is faltering or the stock is underperforming its rivals, then the managers and directors are misusing the cash by refusing to pay a dividend