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  • He stood irresolute in the road.†   (source)
  • Karellen must have seen his irresolution, for he continued: "I'm sorry if this disappoints you, but at least the political problems of the near future won't be your responsibility.†   (source)
  • He was near the door now, barely two feet away from me where I stood at the threshold, irresolute, not knowing whether to forge on toward my room or to turn and flee.†   (source)
  • HELEN lifts her fist irresolute for another roundhouse, ANNIE lifts her hand resolute for another slap, and they freeze in this posture, while HELEN mulls it over.†   (source)
  • He stood irresolute for a moment and then shouted out to the ship in general.†   (source)
  • He paused irresolute for a moment and not fully aware what it was that had distracted him from his purpose.†   (source)
  • She stood irresolute in the doorway, while he waited outside, his eyes bent down.†   (source)
  • When I came to you last week and found you alone, I came determined to know the truth; though irresolute what to do when it WAS known.   (source)
  • For a fraction of a second he stood, irresolute, in front of Hagrid's door.†   (source)
  • In either case, the executive would become feeble and irresolute.†   (source)
  • Harry stood there for a moment, irresolute, then said, "I'll be back in a bit, Luna — er — bathroom.†   (source)
  • She stood irresolute, mind racing.†   (source)
  • The main thing he felt was a kind of generalized annoyance--at the squishyness of the mud, which made him fall twice onto one knee, smearing his trousers and the hem of his coat; at the way Marguerite would keep wondering, now, whatever had happened to that nice young man; at the general irresolution of life.†   (source)
  • He followed irresolutely for a little distance, half a pace behind her.†   (source)
  • He looked then for weakness in her face, for fear or irresolution, and there was none.†   (source)
  • She arose and stood irresolutely at the foot of the stairs.†   (source)
  • Between the two forces his life hangs tremulous and irresolute.†   (source)
  • I stood there irresolutely for a moment.†   (source)
  • Irresolutely I take the wallet in my hand.†   (source)
  • Colonel Clapperton looked a little irresolute.†   (source)
  • Kumalo, made still more nervous by this indifference, stands outside irresolute.†   (source)
  • Without answering, David stared at them irresolutely.†   (source)
  • She wavered irresolutely and he was at her side, his hand on her arm in a grip that hurt.†   (source)
  • He stopped irresolutely, hedged in by two fears, the dark and his father.†   (source)
  • She stood irresolutely for a moment as though she longed to take flight.†   (source)
  • His irresolution seems to anger the young white man, who leans out of the window and speaks loudly.†   (source)
  • … He stared in breathless irresolution from his own doorway to the roof-door overhead.†   (source)
  • She paused irresolutely, saying nothing and his arm went up in gesture of command.†   (source)
  • He stood a moment irresolutely prodding the muck in the ditch, then he turned on his heel and strode away.†   (source)
  • At home, he could not help but observe in his mother's actions a concealed nervousness, an irresolution as if under the strain of waiting.†   (source)
  • The nurse stood irresolute, looking now at the kneeling figure by the bed (the scandalous exhibition!†   (source)
  • So getting no peace, she rose irresolute, and went to a room behind, and after some time she returned with the Bible.†   (source)
  • Wrapped in his cloak he went his way joylessly and wearily in the direction of our quarter, but stopped in front of a small old-fashioned inn, and after looking irresolutely at the time, went in.†   (source)
  • As though her body were compelled to follow the waverings of an immense irresolution, she swayed back and forth, and David with her.†   (source)
  • For a moment she stood irresolute and through the closed door came the sound of her boy's treble laughter.†   (source)
  • "Aw!" irresolutely.†   (source)
  • She stood in the hall, irresolute, frightened, and the glaring light of the fire in the sitting room threw tall dim shadows on the walls about her.†   (source)
  • " 'I had immense plans,' he muttered irresolutely.†   (source)
  • PRICE [rising, and venturing irresolutely towards Bill].†   (source)
  • Irresolution, incompetence, want of foresight, and lack of determination.†   (source)
  • 'I guess I must be leaving,' she said irresolutely.†   (source)
  • "I wish I had my truncheon," said the policeman, going irresolutely to the door.†   (source)
  • He turned away to descend; then, irresolute, faced round to her door again.†   (source)
  • ECHO CLIFFS
    WHEN thought came clearly to him he halted irresolute.†   (source)
  • At breakfast-time her agonies were night-blurred, and persisted only as a nervous irresolution.†   (source)
  • What's this about "tidy" ' What's this about gentle irresolution and ambiguity?†   (source)
  • Stephen, checked by the crowd at the door, halted irresolutely.†   (source)
  • There being still no answer, I went out at the door, irresolute what to do.†   (source)
  • At length Will, seeming to bethink himself, took up his hat, yet stood some moments irresolute.†   (source)
  • Makes a movement towards the door, but stands irresolute.†   (source)
  • The parson turns disconsolately towards the gate; then comes back irresolutely.†   (source)
  • She was surprised to find how irresolute her mother had become.†   (source)
  • D'Artagnan comprehended their irresolution.†   (source)
  • The woman paled slightly, but quite perceptibly, and the man looked flustered and irresolute.†   (source)
  • The hour of my irresolution is past, and the period of your power is arrived.†   (source)
  • "Do you mean that you won't say, sir?" the spy irresolutely asked.†   (source)
  • He joined them; but, as if irresolute whether to join or to pass on, said nothing, only looked.†   (source)
  • On his thin, weak legs were heavy chains which hampered his irresolute movements.†   (source)
  • A sense of danger seized him, and for a moment he stood irresolute.†   (source)
  • The irresolute fingers went to the trembling lip.†   (source)
  • With this light was extinguished the last irresolution in the heart of d'Artagnan.†   (source)
  • He halted irresolutely, not knowing whether to return or go on.†   (source)
  • She was half afraid of him, and irresolute what to say.†   (source)
  • 'Two,' said the debtor, lifting his irresolute hand to his lip again, and turning into the prison.†   (source)
  • He stood irresolutely beside him in the passage.†   (source)
  • The old count began irresolutely to admonish Nicholas and beg him to abandon his purpose.†   (source)
  • And it was the din of all these hollow-sounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms.†   (source)
  • The girl seemed to waver, and Frome saw her twirl the end of her scarf irresolutely about her fingers.†   (source)
  • At that he stood irresolute for a moment, then turned, scrambled out of the pit, and set off running wildly into Woking.†   (source)
  • A moisture came into his eyes, and, as the whipping continued, he arose and walked irresolutely up and down.†   (source)
  • Oh," irresolutely, "oh, I see."†   (source)
  • [He turns irresolutely to the door].†   (source)
  • He stood up at this, wandered across the room, stared with void eyes at one of the pictures against the old red damask, and came back irresolutely to her side.†   (source)
  • Gently, on tip-toe, she crossed the landing and, like Blue Beard's wife, trembling half with excitement and wonder, she paused a moment on the threshold, strangely perturbed and irresolute.†   (source)
  • He stood irresolute, making some excuse about his mother who expected him; he even muttered something about an engagement.†   (source)
  • She thought she was on the right tack in letting him—as she had done only with fear and irresolution—have again the control of his income.†   (source)
  • An expression of irresolution passed for an instant over her face, but her eyes had hardened again when she answered me.†   (source)
  • The outlaw stood irresolute.†   (source)
  • I felt that I was appearing an irresolute commander to those people who were watching me more or less critically.†   (source)
  • She stood apart from the crowd, letting it drift by her to the platform or the street, and wearing an air of irresolution which might, as he surmised, be the mask of a very definite purpose.†   (source)
  • When he sought to explain that he must be free from entanglements, she suggested, "Are you such a weak, irresolute, LITTLE man that the only way you can keep concentrated is by running away?†   (source)
  • In particular, the orator constantly used the word "love" in a gently irresolute sense, so that one was never quite sure whether he meant its sanctified or more passionate and fleshly forms—leaving one feeling slightly nauseated and seasick.†   (source)
  • Clouds hewn of ponderous timber weighing down on the earth; an irresolute dropping of snow specks upon the trampled wastes.†   (source)
  • I made my way through a shower of petals to the great trunk and for one minute stood irresolute; then, putting my foot in the broad space between the forked branches, I pulled myself up into the tree.†   (source)
  • He had passed these days on the verandah, buried in a long chair, and coming out of his place of sepulture only at meal-times or late at night, when he wandered on the quays all by himself, detached from his surroundings, irresolute and silent, like a ghost without a home to haunt.†   (source)
  • Presently she gave over skylarking, and moved irresolutely about, sighing once or twice and glancing furtively and wistfully toward Tom.†   (source)
  • This appeal seemed to produce some effect, for two of the fellows began to look here and there among the lumber, but half-heartedly, I thought, and with half an eye to their own danger all the time, while the rest stood irresolute on the road.†   (source)
  • Gabriel held her hand for a moment longer, irresolutely, and then, shy of intruding on her grief, let it fall gently and walked quietly to the window.†   (source)
  • "Ah——" he murmured, his head drooping again, and his irresolute hand switching at the underbrush along the lane.†   (source)
  • The sigh of Rip as he murmurs, "Is a man so soon forgotten when he is gone?" the dismay with which he searches for dog and gun after his long sleep, and his comical irresolution over signing the contract with Derrick—all these seem to be right out of life itself; that is, the ideal life, where things happen as we think they should.†   (source)
  • He stood irresolute, wishing suddenly to see the inside of the house, so that he might picture the room that Madame Olenska sat in.†   (source)
  • Foolish Bardolaters make a virtue of this after their fashion: they declare that the play is the tragedy of irresolution; but all Shakespear's projections of the deepest humanity he knew have the same defect: their characters and manners are lifelike; but their actions are forced on them from without, and the external force is grotesquely inappropriate except when it is quite conventional, as in the case of Henry V. Falstaff is more vivid than any of these serious reflective…†   (source)
  • Finally Stapleton turned upon his heel and beckoned in a peremptory way to his sister, who, after an irresolute glance at Sir Henry, walked off by the side of her brother.†   (source)
  • But now it was the Welland house, and the life he was expected to lead in it, that had become unreal and irrelevant, and the brief scene on the shore, when he had stood irresolute, halfway down the bank, was as close to him as the blood in his veins.†   (source)
  • Miss Kilroy paused irresolutely.†   (source)
  • But here Dr. Krokowski's teachings began to get blurry, a little cross-eyed, to take on an ambiguous, irresolute character that would have been suitable to his gush-ings on "love.†   (source)
  • While his mind had been pursuing its intangible phantoms and turning in irresolution from such pursuit he had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things and urging him to be a good catholic above all things.†   (source)
  • But even as we record this kiss exchanged between a notoriously "subtle" young man and a charming, slinking, and still equally young woman, we cannot help finding in it a reminder of Dr. Krokowski's elaborate, if not always unobjectionable way of speaking about love in a gently irresolute sense, so that one was never quite sure whether he meant its sanctified or more passionate and fleshly forms.†   (source)
  • Irresolute?†   (source)
  • After four o'clock tea in the dining hall—at which Frau Chauchat had appeared alone, as she had at all three previous meals that day, and then set off at once for a shopping trip down in Platz— Hans Castorp had asked to be admitted for his usual sick call on the Dutchman, partly to show the old man some attention and entertain him a little, partly to be edified by his personality: in short, for reasons both life-affirming and irresolute.†   (source)
  • For some time Deerslayer was irresolute as to his course; but, in the end, he retraced his steps, and joined the Delaware.†   (source)
  • But how sad, despairing, and irresolute he must have felt, to judge from this ship whose soul he was, which reflected his every mood!†   (source)
  • He now furtively raised his eyes: he glanced at me, irresolute, disturbed: he again surveyed the picture.†   (source)
  • His face showed irresolution, and a seeking for counsel, support, and guidance in a matter he did not understand.†   (source)
  • Almost all the hotels occupied by the English in Brussels face the Parc, and Jos wandered irresolutely about in this quarter, with crowds of other people, oppressed as he was by fear and curiosity.†   (source)
  • From being irresolute and purposeless, his feet became animated by an intention, and, in the working out of that intention, they took him to the Doctor's door.†   (source)
  • Standing, then in an irresolute attitude for a few minutes, as if he did not well know how to employ himself, he turned round and looked at Oliver, and called him by his name.†   (source)
  • Marius, still concealed in the turn of the Rue Mondetour, had witnessed, shuddering and irresolute, the first phase of the combat.†   (source)
  • When he had completed his survey he walked on a little way, and then back, and then on again; at length, after pausing irresolutely several times before the door of the General Agency Office, he made up his mind, and stepped in.†   (source)
  • But I stood irresolute; when looking at a clock in the corner, he exclaimed "I vum it's Sunday—you won't see that harpooneer to-night; he's come to anchor somewhere—come along then; DO come; WON'T ye come?"†   (source)
  • Aslaksen (irresolutely).†   (source)
  • The old gentleman entered again, and George, as before, locked the door, and then stood for a few moments looking on the floor, irresolutely.†   (source)
  • His father remarked the restless glances wandering to the window, and the hand irresolutely extended towards his cap.†   (source)
  • The gendarme looked irresolutely at his companion, who returned for answer a sign that said, "I see no great harm in telling him now," and the gendarme replied,— "You are a native of Marseilles, and a sailor, and yet you do not know where you are going?"†   (source)
  • The troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this irresolution communicated itself to the men.†   (source)
  • His irresolution lasted but for this minute, however; for he was soon beneath the tree, where he fastened the mimic flag to a branch again, though, from his ignorance of the precise spot from which it had been taken by Mabel, he left it fluttering from a part of the oak where it was still more exposed than before to the eyes of any passenger on the river, though less in view from the island itself.†   (source)
  • Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, was speculative and irresolute, and we have a great tragedy in consequence.†   (source)
  • They glow with a factitious zeal; their language is vehement, but their conduct is timid and irresolute.†   (source)
  • The debtor irresolutely thought of it for a minute, and said, 'Perhaps you wouldn't object to really being her godfather?'†   (source)
  • He stood a moment most irresolute; then, stepping forward, took her palfrey by the rein, and bent his knee before her.†   (source)
  • Little Henry was in her thoughts, and a mixture of alarm and delicacy made her irresolute what else to say.†   (source)
  • The other stopped irresolute.†   (source)
  • He did pause, with a moment's irresolution, before he shut the door; and he did look cautiously behind it first, as if he half expected to be terrified with the sight of Marley's pigtail sticking out into the hall.†   (source)
  • 'And yet,' said I, 'I get so miserable and worried, and am so unsteady and irresolute in my power of assuring myself, that I know I must want — shall I call it — reliance, of some kind?'†   (source)
  • Godfrey knew all this, and felt it with the greater force because he had constantly suffered annoyance from witnessing his father's sudden fits of unrelentingness, for which his own habitual irresolution deprived him of all sympathy.†   (source)
  • He saw her too; yet he looked grave, and seemed irresolute, and only by very slow degrees came at last near enough to speak to her.†   (source)
  • The Confession Of A Passionate Heart—In Verse Alyosha remained for some time irresolute after hearing the command his father shouted to him from the carriage.†   (source)
  • I knew that every minute was precious to me, yet I remained irresolute in what manner to commence the interview, when the old man addressed me.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XI Our Dear Brother A touch on the lawyer's wrinkled hand as he stands in the dark room, irresolute, makes him start and say, "What's that?"†   (source)
  • "I don't know that I am more liable to irresolution than other people; only there are little incidents now and then that set one speculating on what might happen in the future."†   (source)
  • —it would drive him mad!" exclaimed Hepzibah, but with an irresoluteness sufficiently perceptible to the keen eye of the Judge; for, without the slightest faith in his good intentions, she knew not whether there was most to dread in yielding or resistance.†   (source)
  • Stephen looked at him with some little irresolution for a moment, and then seemed to make up his mind.†   (source)
  • Stripped to our shirts and drawers, we sprang to the white-ash, and after several hours' pulling were almost disposed to renounce the chase, when a general pausing commotion among the whales gave animating token that they were now at last under the influence of that strange perplexity of inert irresolution, which, when the fishermen perceive it in the whale, they say he is gallied.†   (source)
  • There was one hesitating pause,—one irresolute, relenting thrill,—and the spirit of evil came back, with seven-fold vehemence; and Legree, foaming with rage, smote his victim to the ground.†   (source)
  • "Come, forgive her, Dolly, she won't do it again," he said of the little sinner, who had not gone to Fanny, but was standing irresolutely before her mother, waiting and looking up from under her brows to catch her mother's eye.†   (source)
  • He wandered on again, irresolute and undecided, and oppressed with the fear of another solitary night.†   (source)
  • Well, in one of your late conversations with him, you said that I appeared to be forgetful and irresolute concerning this marriage, did you not?†   (source)
  • Our history is destined in this chapter to go backwards and forwards in a very irresolute manner seemingly, and having conducted our story to to-morrow presently, we shall immediately again have occasion to step back to yesterday, so that the whole of the tale may get a hearing.†   (source)
  • He possessed himself of a sword belonging to one of the domestics, who was just drawing it with a tardy and irresolute hand, laid it about him like a lion, drove back several who approached him, and made a brave though ineffectual attempt to succour his master.†   (source)
  • I would be understood to mean, that it can be only weak, irresolute characters, (whose happiness must be always at the mercy of chance,) who will suffer an unfortunate acquaintance to be an inconvenience, an oppression for ever.†   (source)
  • His natural irresolution and moral cowardice were exaggerated by a position in which dreaded consequences seemed to press equally on all sides, and his irritation had no sooner provoked him to defy Dunstan and anticipate all possible betrayals, than the miseries he must bring on himself by such a step seemed more unendurable to him than the present evil.†   (source)
  • If she had asserted any influence over him beyond her plain faith in the truth and right of what she said; if she had concealed the least doubt or irresolution, or had harboured for the best purpose any reserve or pretence; if she had shown, or felt, the lightest trace of any sensitiveness to his ridicule or his astonishment, or any remonstrance he might offer; he would have carried it against her at this point.†   (source)
  • The young lady shrieked, the attendant wrung her hands, Nicholas gazed from one to the other in apparent stupefaction, and Newman hurried to and fro, thrusting his hands into all his pockets successively, and drawing out the linings of every one in the excess of his irresolution.†   (source)
  • 'For God's sake, my dear Doctor,' said Mr. Wickfield again laying his irresolute hand upon the Doctor's arm, 'don't attach too much weight to any suspicions I may have entertained.'†   (source)
  • Fourteen years had changed the worthy merchant, who, in his thirty-sixth year at the opening of this history, was now in his fiftieth; his hair had turned white, time and sorrow had ploughed deep furrows on his brow, and his look, once so firm and penetrating, was now irresolute and wandering, as if he feared being forced to fix his attention on some particular thought or person.†   (source)
  • It was true; for after some appearance of irresolution and consultation, the whole party got on their horses and rode away.†   (source)
  • Mr. Wickfield, sorely troubled and distressed, was leaning forward, irresolutely touching the Doctor's arm.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, whether the cough had been answered by a similar signal which had fixed the irresolution of the nocturnal seeker, or whether without this aid she saw that she had arrived at the end of her journey, she resolutely drew near to Aramis's shutter, and tapped, at three equal intervals, with her bent finger.†   (source)
  • She had loitered for a few paces as though irresolute, and making up her mind to advance; but the sound determined her, and she stepped into the hall.†   (source)
  • If he had the courage to encounter danger, he at least hated the trouble of going to seek it; and while he agreed in the general principles laid down by Cedric concerning the claim of the Saxons to independence, and was still more easily convinced of his own title to reign over them when that independence should be attained, yet when the means of asserting these rights came to be discussed, he was still "Athelstane the Unready," slow, irresolute, procrastinating, and unenterprising.†   (source)
  • His face, though partly hidden by a long plume which floated down from his barrel-cap, bore a strong and mingled expression of passion, in which pride seemed to contend with irresolution.†   (source)
  • With the same perversity of feeling and irresolution that had fastened upon him, despite himself, all day, the murderer, finding that he was not followed, and that they most probably considered him some drunken sullen fellow, turned back up the town, and getting out of the glare of the lamps of a stage-coach that was standing in the street, was walking past, when he recognised the mail from London, and saw that it was standing at the little post-office.†   (source)
  • He was an undecided, irresolute chap, who had everything but his orphan life scared out of him when he was young.†   (source)
  • Bois-Guilbert turned his countenance irresolutely towards Rebecca, and then exclaimed, looking fiercely at Ivanhoe, "Dog of a Saxon! take thy lance, and prepare for the death thou hast drawn upon thee!"†   (source)
  • How expressive that heightened colour in her face, that fluttered manner, her downcast eyes, her irresolute happiness!†   (source)
  • He checked himself in the middle of the sentence, lowered his eyes to avoid seeing her unpleasantly irritated and irresolute face, and said: "I did not come here at all to quarrel with you.†   (source)
  • By this time, the rings had begun to fall from the debtor's irresolute hands, like leaves from a wintry tree.†   (source)
  • At the battle of Borodino, when Bagration was killed and nine tenths of the men of our left flank had fallen and the full force of the French artillery fire was directed against it, the man sent there was this same irresolute and undiscerning Dokhturov—Kutuzov hastening to rectify a mistake he had made by sending someone else there first.†   (source)
  • Amid the smoke, deafened by the incessant reports which always made him jump, Tushin not taking his pipe from his mouth ran from gun to gun, now aiming, now counting the charges, now giving orders about replacing dead or wounded horses and harnessing fresh ones, and shouting in his feeble voice, so high pitched and irresolute.†   (source)
  • The irresolute fingers fluttered more and more ineffectually about the trembling lip on every such occasion, and the sharpest practitioners gave him up as a hopeless job.†   (source)
  • It was before my time here; but I've heerd in my dreams that Arthur's father was a poor, irresolute, frightened chap, who had had everything but his orphan life scared out of him when he was young, and that he had no voice in the choice of his wife even, but his uncle chose her.†   (source)
  • Although that patience did come out, Pierre did not join the army, but remained in deserted Moscow ever in the same state of agitation, irresolution, and alarm, yet at the same time joyfully expecting something terrible.†   (source)
  • The turnkey conducted him—trembling from head to foot, and constantly crying under his breath, What was he to do! while his irresolute fingers bedabbled the tears upon his face—up one of the common staircases in the prison to a door on the garret story.†   (source)
  • He was a shy, retiring man; well-looking, though in an effeminate style; with a mild voice, curling hair, and irresolute hands—rings upon the fingers in those days—which nervously wandered to his trembling lip a hundred times in the first half-hour of his acquaintance with the jail.†   (source)
  • But, to the last, the irresolute hand of old would remain in the pocket into which he had slipped the money during two or three turns about the yard, lest the transaction should be too conspicuous to the general body of collegians.†   (source)
  • It was very curious to see them standing together: the girl with her disengaged fingers plaiting the bosom of her dress, half irresolutely, half passionately; Miss Wade with her composed face attentively regarding her, and suggesting to an observer, with extraordinary force, in her composure itself (as a veil will suggest the form it covers), the unquenchable passion of her own nature.†   (source)
  • Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?†   (source)
  • When I came to you last week and found you alone, I came determined to know the truth; though irresolute what to do when it WAS known.†   (source)
  • And irresolute princes, to avoid present dangers, generally follow the neutral path, and are generally ruined.†   (source)
  • …nor was the King of Spain, and he had the enterprise still under discussion with the King of France; nevertheless he personally entered upon the expedition with his accustomed boldness and energy, a move which made Spain and the Venetians stand irresolute and passive, the latter from fear, the former from desire to recover the kingdom of Naples; on the other hand, he drew after him the King of France, because that king, having observed the movement, and desiring to make the Pope his…†   (source)
  • It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock; and he should endeavour to show in his actions greatness, courage, gravity, and fortitude; and in his private dealings with his subjects let him show that his judgments are irrevocable, and maintain himself in such reputation that no one can hope either to deceive him or to get round him.†   (source)
  • Bloom, holding in his hand Stephen's hat, festooned with shavings, and ashplant, stands irresolute.†   (source)
  • In either case, feebleness and irresolution must be the characteristics of the station.†   (source)
  • Him after long debate, irresolute Of thoughts revolved, his final sentence chose Fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom To enter, and his dark suggestions hide From sharpest sight: for, in the wily snake Whatever sleights, none would suspicious mark, As from his wit and native subtlety Proceeding; which, in other beasts observed, Doubt might beget of diabolick power Active within, beyond the sense of brute.†   (source)
  • After "the Duke his father," with "the knife," He stretch'd him, and, with one hand on his dagger, Another spread on 's breast, mounting his eyes, He did discharge a horrible oath; whose tenour Was, were he evil us'd, he would outgo His father by as much as a performance Does an irresolute purpose.†   (source)
  • Whatever may be the limits or modifications of the powers of the Union, it is easy to imagine an endless train of possible dangers; and by indulging an excess of jealousy and timidity, we may bring ourselves to a state of absolute scepticism and irresolution.†   (source)
  • And therefore Eloquent speakers are enclined to Ambition; for Eloquence seemeth wisdome, both to themselves and others Irresolution, From Too Great Valuing Of Small Matters Pusillanimity disposeth men to Irresolution, and consequently to lose the occasions, and fittest opportunities of action.†   (source)
  • And Irresolution, Dishonourable; as a signe of too much valuing of little impediments, and little advantages: For when a man has weighed things as long as the time permits, and resolves not, the difference of weight is but little; and therefore if he resolve not, he overvalues little things, which is Pusillanimity.†   (source)
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