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Sentences ending with pauses

I will wet the handkerchief at intervals in the pauses. [10]
A grizzled old fellow who kept a stock farm back in the country chanced to be there, and managed to get a word in on the subject during one of my client's rare pauses. [9]
Fielding behaved well, Dicky was amiable and attentive, and the dinner being ready to the instant, there was no waiting, there were no awkward pauses. [11]
She pauses. [4]

Sentences containing pauses two or more times

Nobody could do anything that night, or sleep, either; but there was a deal of moving talk, with long pauses between pictures of that flying carriage, these pauses represented--this picture intruded itself all the time and disjointed the talk. [5]

More example sentences with the word pauses in them

He rubs them with that peculiar twisting movement of his, and pauses for the effect. [6]
His only pauses were for the worthy purpose of filling the detective's or the captain's glass, and these he watched with a hospitable solicitude. [9]
He then began to read in a good round resonant voice, with clear enunciation and careful attention to his pauses and emphases. [5]
During one of these pauses Kutuzov heaved a deep sigh as if preparing to speak. [2]
In one of the pauses of their discourse, and when half the night had worn away, the single gentleman, who had gradually become more and more silent and thoughtful, turned to his companion and said abruptly: 'Are you a good listener? [12]
In one of the pauses a song came monotonously lilting down the street; yet it was not a song, it was only a sort of humming or chanting. [11]
Some have said that the practice arises from nervousness--the idle desire to be busy without doing anything--and because it fills up the pauses of vacuity in conversation. [4]
The laws is that the battle must continue fifteen minutes if the men can hold out; and as the pauses do not count, this duel was protracted to twenty or thirty minutes, I judged. [5]
Once a dove swept down upon the window-sill, and, peering in, filled one of the pauses in the recital with its deep contralto note, and then fled like a small blue cloud into the wide and--as it seemed--everlasting peace beyond the doorway. [11]
Their names fell softly and caressingly from her lips, one by one, with pauses between. [5]
Once or twice she lifted up her hands above her head as though appealing, but these pauses were only for brief moments, for she kept moving on towards the mountain with a swift step. [11]
I do not pretend to give all the pauses and interruptions by question or otherwise. [6]
You have listening pauses of dead silence, followed by apparently irrelevant and unjustifiable exclamations of glad surprise or sorrow or dismay. [5]
The last two paragraphs are not improvable by anybody's art; they are literary gold; and their very pauses and uncompleted sentences have in them an eloquence not reachable by any words. [5]
Then, in his own particular language, he began the account of the capture of the Jane, taking care in the pauses to see that my mug was full. [9]
Nay, in this our quickened life we feel that all the battles from earliest time to our own day, where Right and Wrong have grappled, are but one great battle, varied with brief pauses or hasty bivouacs upon the field of conflict. [6]
At length, in one of these pauses, he heard his lodger's door opened and shut, and footsteps coming down the stairs. [12]
In the middle of the lawn she stopped short once as if in doubt what to do--as a thought-reader pauses in his search for the mental scent again, ere he rushes upon the object of his search with the certainty of instinct. [11]
In the pauses of my work I am alone, with myself and with you, my very worthy Leukippe. [10]
In one of its streets he pauses, and enters a building called "Providence Chambers. [11]
What went forward in the pauses of the tilting I could not mark, inasmuch as my eyes and ears were their Majesties' alone. [10]
She pauses in her knitting and returns his look). [9]
He added, with great difficulty and long pauses these words. [5]
In the distance Gorgo could see a vast body of men slowly approaching in detachments, and with long pauses at intervals. [10]
A person who does not appreciate the exceeding value of pauses, and does not know how to measure their duration judiciously, cannot render the grand simplicity and dignity of a composition like that effectively. [5]
Gravely, solemnly, the chief members of the Lords and Commons spoke, and with as weighty pauses and devoted protestations as though this were the first time their plea had been urged, this obvious duty had been set out before her. [11]
The discussion recommenced, but pauses frequently occurred and they all felt that there was no more to be said. [2]
In the pauses, as she listened, it seemed as if she could hear the silver sound of the river over the pebbles far below. [9]
During the pauses and the supper which interrupted the game, he told us many things of former times. [10]
He dropped many a vigorous exclamation into my pauses, but when I came to speak of my friendship with Mr. Fox, his brow clouded over. [9]
Later on, down a side street, he pauses before a house with its face blown away. [9]

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