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There was a lot of frightened clucking and dithering and scolding, and a cup of beef broth and a warm bath and a hot-water bottle for Laura, whose mishap was put down to her well-known clumsiness; she was told to watch where she was going.† (source)
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And don't forget to pack your trunks...a prefect...oh, I'm all of a dither!'† (source)
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JAMES: Slythering Slytherin, stop with your dithering, time to get onto the train.† (source)
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The next day, instead of going to class, I retrieved the pillowcase from under my bed, taped it shut with duct tape, put it in a brown bag from Bloomingdale's, and took a cab to the sporting goods store in Union Square, where after a bit of dithering I purchased a cheap pup tent and then caught a cab back up to Sixtieth Street.† (source)
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In my life, I have never dithered.† (source)
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She had worked herself up into a real dither.† (source)
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It was a pretense, his dithering refusal—he was one of the most confident people she had ever met.† (source)
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Shall I dither about whether to defend myself because it will cause someone pain?† (source)
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At first the town held the line, but when entrepreneurs from Bussard City moved in with gift shops, T-shirt concessions, tours, and datachip booths for the tourists who were coming in larger and larger numbers, the local business people first dithered, then wavered, then decided unanimously that, if t here was commerce to be carried on, the profits should not go to outsiders.† (source)
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The chairman I forced on them while letting them elect him is a ditherer who could not unravel a piece of string—thinks every subject needs 'more study.'† (source)
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No matter: Dagwood still battled Mr. Dithers.† (source)
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This is not an age of tragic grandeur, Prufrock suggests, but an age of hapless ditherers.† (source)
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"Well, dithering won't help," I said.† (source)
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If you were a real king, you would've used that hammer immediately rather than hide it away and dither for months about what to do.† (source)
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All that time, while she had dithered in the grocery aisles, while she had sat in the unfamiliar restroom quietly feeding Phoebe, this light had been spilling out across the snow.† (source)
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Yes, but we recall that Hamlet is himself a hapless ditherer, and it's only circumstance that saves him from his own haplessness and confers on him something noble and tragic.† (source)
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