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  • Gellert was there in the house when it happened, and he came back to my house all of a dither, told me he wanted to go home the next day.†  (source)
  • JAMES: Slythering Slytherin, stop with your dithering, time to get onto the train.†  (source)
  • 'Well, sir,' said Sam dithering a little.†  (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)
  • I had long since given up hope that the pilot who had brought me to Wolf House Bay would ever return, and so the sight of this plane sent me into a dither of excitement.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • No matter: Dagwood still battled Mr. Dithers.†  (source)
  • This is not an age of tragic grandeur, Prufrock suggests, but an age of hapless ditherers.†  (source)
  • "Well, dithering won't help," I said.†  (source)
  • Even though he had been forewarned, when all of us came trooping into his office he seemed overwhelmed and showed a tendency to dither.†  (source)
  • In my life, I have never dithered.†  (source)
  • 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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