"Waveringly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said, trying to laugh it off. "It is very kind of you to warn me—but really I don't think you need." She looked round her waveringly. ...
— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... moaned John, waveringly rising to his feet; "but I beg you not to be alarmed. Tell your little boy to come to my room, where I will retire at once, if you'll excuse me, and send for my physician. It is simply a nervous attack. I am often troubled so; and only perfect quiet and seclusion restores me. You have done me a ...
— Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley • James Whitcomb Riley
... neutralize that honesty and leave that feel for truth at fault, as the way is too. Some prepossession, such as starts amiss, by but a hair's-breadth at the shoulder-blade, the arm o' the feeler, dip he ne'er so brave; and so leads waveringly, lets fall wide o' the mark his finger meant to find, and fix truth at the ...
— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson
... waveringly on in a feeble vacancy, and Christopher, after watching her for an agonised moment, left the room and went out into the fresh air of the yard. He could always escape by flight from the slow death-bed; it was Cynthia who faced hourly ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... portrait of Grandy's father looked down upon them. His faintly ironical smile seemed to mock their baffled efforts to disentangle the mystery. The tide wind blew in softly from the river; the lights in the quaint old gas fixtures flared waveringly, but the wide ...
— Little Miss By-The-Day • Lucille Van Slyke
... armed him in blue arms, and gave a shield Blue also, and thereon the morning star. And Gareth silent gazed upon the knight, Who stood a moment, ere his horse was brought, Glorying; and in the stream beneath him, shone Immingled with Heaven's azure waveringly, The gay pavilion and the naked feet, His arms, the ...
— Idylls of the King • Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
