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  • Hesitate at that position and notice that the line continues back over your head until it straightens out behind you.

    I am new to fly fishing and i am practicing my cast. 2010

  • Hesitate at that position and notice that the line continues back over your head until it straightens out behind you.

    I am new to fly fishing and i am practicing my cast. 2010

  • 'Hesitate not, my dear girl,' cried he kindly, 'to unbosom your griefs or your apprehensions, where they will be received with all the tenderness due to such a confidence, and held sacred from every human inspection; unless you permit me yourself to entrust your best and wisest friend.'

    Camilla 2008

  • Hesitate in the beginning and you will likely find yourself missing out forever.

    100K 2006

  • KING: Hesitate to say what's coming up tomorrow night, because so many things keep changing every day with breaking news.

    CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2002 2002

  • Hesitate to marry and have more illegitimate births.

    Markets and Majorities Steven M. Sheffrin 1993

  • Hesitate to obey me in any thing which I may desire you to do, and I will denounce you to Mr. Hedge as a vile adulteress and impostor, unworthy to become his wife, even if you had no husband living.

    City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson

  • Hesitate I did, with involuntary action of muscles; I thought that she momentarily hesitated; then I drove on, defiant, and so did she.

    Desert Dust J. Clinton Shepherd 1911

  • Hesitate no longer, begin to-day, put it not off until to-morrow.

    The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01 Basil to Calvin Grenville Kleiser 1910

  • “Hesitate not, ” replied thereupon the intelligent mother,

    Euterpe 1909

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