1 I delayed this morning that so we might be sure.
2 I was staggered; but I knew that if he wished to delay he had a good reason for it.
3 It would have to take its chance of being delayed; and delay would be fatal, with enemies on the track.
4 It would have to take its chance of being delayed; and delay would be fatal, with enemies on the track.
5 I told them that one life was bad enough to lose, and that if they delayed they would sacrifice Miss Lucy.
6 For so if time be long you may be delayed; and it will not matter when the sun set, since I am here with Madam to make report.
7 The delay of arrival at Varna made us individually satisfied that things would not be just as we had expected; we only waited to learn where the change would occur.
8 So he delay, and delay, and delay, till the mere beauty and the fascination of the wanton Un-Dead have hypnotise him; and he remain on and on, till sunset come, and the Vampire sleep be over.
9 He wishes me to convey his love, and to say that by this post I write for him to Mr. Peter Hawkins, Exeter, to say, with his dutiful respects, that he is sorry for his delay, and that all of his work is completed.
10 I would have liked to have asked the driver what this all meant, but I really feared to do so, for I thought that, placed as I was, any protest would have had no effect in case there had been an intention to delay.
11 He did not delay notwithstanding this, for as Jonathan, with desperate energy, attacked one end of the chest, attempting to prize off the lid with his great Kukri knife, he attacked the other frantically with his bowie.