1 In the middle of a dull and halting conversation, Helene turned to Pierre with the beautiful bright smile that she gave to everyone.
2 They had come by easy stages, their knapsacks conveyed on carts, and the Austrian authorities had provided excellent dinners for the officers at every halting place.
3 But not far from Bald Hills he again came out on the road and overtook his regiment at its halting place by the dam of a small pond.
4 The symptoms of disorder that Pierre had noticed at their first halting place after leaving Moscow had now reached the utmost limit.
5 At their yesterday's halting place, feeling chilly by a dying campfire, Pierre had got up and gone to the next one, which was burning better.
6 When the troops reached their night's halting place on the eighth of November, the last day of the Krasnoe battles, it was already growing dusk.
7 A lecturer with motion-pictures of an Andean exploration; excellent pictures and a halting narrative.
8 But by her still halting course and winding, woeful way, you plainly saw that this ship that so wept with spray, still remained without comfort.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 128. The Pequod Meets The Rachel. 9 Hoveringly halting, and dipping on the wing, the white sea-fowls longingly lingered over the agitated pool that he left.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day. 10 Again the scout and his companions made the circuit of the halting place, each slowly following the other, until they assembled in the center once more, no wiser than when they started.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21 11 He traversed the line of the principal outposts, halting here and there to talk to the sentinels.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—NAPOLEON IN A GOOD HUMOR 12 A being resembling a man was walking amid the bell-glasses of the melon beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he were dragging or spreading out something on the ground.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS 13 Without halting for an instant, Snowball flung his fifteen stone against Jones's legs.
14 Often when I thought of this I could make no answer or only a very foolish and halting one upon which he used to smile and nod his head twice or thrice.
15 We tear ourselves away, I and Iphitus and Pelias, Iphitus now stricken in age, Pelias halting too under the wound of Ulysses, called forward by the clamour to Priam's house.