1 He foresaw so clearly the consequences of this imprudence that with considerable reluctance he decided to ask Andrew Hale for a small advance on his load.
2 He moved in an inner world that was more beautiful than Georgia and came back to reality with reluctance.
3 With reluctance he told us that you spent your mornings at the store and would permit no one else to do the bookkeeping.
4 Even the immediate one of letting Trenor, as they drove homeward, lean a little nearer and rest his hand reassuringly on hers, cost her only a momentary shiver of reluctance.
5 She doubted Mrs. Van Osburgh's reluctance, but was aware of Miss Farish's habit of ascribing her own delicacies of feeling to the persons least likely to be encumbered by them.
6 It was the char-woman of the Benedick who, resting on crimson elbows, examined her with the same unflinching curiosity, the same apparent reluctance to let her pass.
7 She believed in the sincerity of her friend's affection, though it sometimes showed itself in self-interested ways, and she shrank with peculiar reluctance from any risk of estranging it.
8 Ten minutes later the two men passed out together between the gold-laced custodians of the threshold; but in the vestibule Stepney drew up with a last flare of reluctance.
9 The consciousness of his half-divined reluctance had vanished.
10 The car skidded, it turned about with comic reluctance, crashed into a tree, and stood tilted on a broken wheel.
11 Anxious to know the worst, and willing, in such an emergency, to try the potency of gold he overcame his reluctance to speak to Magua.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10 12 At first their progress was slow and guarded, as though they entered with reluctance amid the horrors of the post, or dreaded the renewal of its frightful incidents.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18 13 A short and impressive pause succeeded, during which it was very apparent with what reluctance the multitude admitted the justice of the Mingo's claim.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 30 14 Thither Tamenund also retired, with calm composure, after a short and touching interview with Uncas; from whom the sage separated with the reluctance that a parent would quit a long lost and just recovered child.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 31 15 After exchanging a few words of further arrangement, Haley, with visible reluctance, handed over the fifty dollars to Tom, and the worthy trio separated for the night.