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Example sentences for "falters"

Lexicographically close words:
falta; falter; faltered; faltering; falteringly; faluns; fama; famae; famam; famblies
  1. X Still upon her sunless soul Gleams the narrow hidden space Forward, where her fiery race Falters on its ashen goal: Still the Future strikes her face.

  2. At eve I droop, for then the swell Of feeling falters forth farewell; - At midnight I am dreaming deep, Of what has been, in blissful sleep.

  3. My Lady reclines in her chair composedly, though with a trifle less of graceful ease than usual perhaps, and never falters in her steady gaze.

  4. He falters an awkward excuse or two for his failure.

  5. But on the whole, though Lafayette weighed so light, and has had his Mai plucked up, Official Feuillantism falters not a whit; but carries its head high, strong in the letter of the Law.

  6. The tongue falters in giving them utterance; the pen trembles that records them.

  7. Whoso shrinks or falters now, Whoso to the yoke would bow, Brand the craven on his brow!

  8. I cannot imagine the putting of that question without feeling the tremors which shake a wooer as he falters out the words the answer to which will make him happy or wretched.

  9. Thy requiem asks a sweeter lay; It falters on my tongue; For all we vainly strive to say, Thou shouldst thyself have sung!

  10. At last, the young girl herself appears, and falters in the doorway an instant, but finally comes forward and drifts softly and indirectly up to the picture, at which she glances with a little sigh.

  11. Whatever else is obscure or elusive in Browning, he never falters in proclaiming the absolute and flawless worth of love.

  12. Mertoun falters and stammers in his suit to Tresham; Mildred stands mute at her brother's charge, incapable of evasion, only resolute not to betray.

  13. Our beds are the tombs of the mortals; We feed on their crimes and the thought That falters and halts at the portals Of actions, intentions unwrought.

  14. My love for thee is strong, yet my poor heart falters before Echri's sacred furnace.

  15. I knew thou wouldst not fail, dear Harry; but already my heart falters within me.

  16. It does not, unless we have this connecting link--the experience in sorrow of a God-given courage which falters not in the onward course, nor shrinks from any duty.

  17. Nay, I can take no action, play no play; All my wit falters when I hear you speak, All my wise guile with which your wooing strove Vanishes as the sun of yesterday.

  18. The vines of even this fastidious berry, that falters and fails in most soils, averaged one foot in height, and were loaded with enormous fruit.

  19. In all business affairs his judgment is sound and his discrimination keen, and he falters not until his purpose has been accomplished and success has rewarded his efforts.

  20. At that point Emily Brontë's style becomes assured in its directness and simplicity, and thenceforward it never falters or changes its essential character.

  21. For pages and pages it falters between passion and melodrama; between rhetoric and the cri de coeur.

  22. But," falters Leslie, a smile beginning to break on the lovely face.

  23. After which he falters out beseechingly, 'Promise, promise that you will not give me any more money, and though starving and in rags you find me crouching at your door, promise.

  24. Thou wilt overlook our penury,' she falters out; 'here be all we have.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "falters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.