hesitatingly

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So I thought if there didn't any place open, for Elizabeth Leverett was quite wrapped up in her grandchildren, that"--hesitatingly--"when things were straightened out a bit, I'd offer That would have been good of you No, it wasn't goodness," interrupted Aunt Priscilla.

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  1. In a hesitating manner. The best things done hesitatingly, and with an ill grace, lose their effect, and produce disgust rather than satisfaction or gratitude. A. Hamilton, Works, I. 168.

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  • I think,"--hesitatingly,--"they were finding fault with Moses and Aaron, and wanting to be leaders in some manner Well--I am glad it wasn't dancing. —  A Little Girl in Old Boston
  • So I thought if there didn't any place open, for Elizabeth Leverett was quite wrapped up in her grandchildren, that"--hesitatingly--"when things were straightened out a bit, I'd offer That would have been good of you No, it wasn't goodness," interrupted Aunt Priscilla. —  A Little Girl in Old Boston
  • Miss Milly, do you know,"--hesitatingly,--"I'd liever take some out of the 'lection expenses share, than to pass over the Yorkes. —  Uncle Rutherford's Nieces A Story for Girls
  • "I say"--hesitatingly, his eyes still more dog-like--"you are so awfully kind, I wonder whether you'd mind looking at one of my things. —  The Woman's Way
  • I have been away quite a long time You must come again," said the old lady Do you think," said Celia, hesitatingly, as she slipped on her jacket, "that the young woman, Susie, as you call her, would let me go to see her sometimes? —  The Woman's Way
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