Abdulla closes his water-skin and replaces it on his back, not without a momentary sense of bewilderment.
Sometimes a momentary breakdown has been retrieved under the stimulus of encouraging cheers from the House, and an infelicitous beginning has led to an eloquent peroration.
The statesman who seeks a momentary relaxation from the arduous duties of the Chamber can find repose in comfortable smoking-rooms where easy-chairs abound.
The crowned King had no need to fear the momentary King-elect of forty years before.
These purposes range from momentary personal satisfaction to the most comprehensive social services involving disregard of one's own person.
It is the difference between the momentary experience, as opposed to the totality of the corresponding memories and expectations.
She was shown into the parlour, where she waited till long after the lamp was lighted, in momentary expectation of the appearance of her friend, who had sent down word that she would be with her in a few minutes.
The flinty heart of Miss Frampton underwent a momentary softening.
We sweep into the field of that looker-on, the momentary incarnations of this sempiternal being, Man.
Millions read these leaders and feel a momentary benefit, en route for the more actual portions of the paper.
He at first compressed his lips in momentary rage, and then burst into a fit of irrepressible laughter.
These men cast a momentary and sullen glance at the visitors, like convicts in the penitentiary, and resumed their labours in silence.
He started back with a momentary conviction that he heard a rush creak under its feet.
Glenn, after a momentary pause from the interruption of his man, which he only noticed by a significant motion of the hand for him to be silent.
Mr. Corliss concluded his momentary pause by walking up the broken cement path, which was hard beset by plantain-weed and the long grass of the ill-kept lawn.
Just then the clatter of hoofs was heard behind them, and the baronet's spirited horses, startled by the sound, set off at a pace that gave her ladyship a momentary fright.
Some bright eyes were dimmed at this remark, and a momentary silence ensued.
She gave him her hand, her small head crested with sudden pride, though a subtle thrill ran through her veins as his warm fingers clasped hers in a momentary pressure.
The thought flashes over him suddenly as he looks at her keenly, taking advantage of her momentary obliviousness of his presence.
Looking closer into the white face with its finely-chiseled features, sharpened and refined by the agony she has endured, his heart swells with momentary pity for the cold beauty who has wronged him so deeply.
She was silent a moment, feeling a momentaryembarrassment over her promise.
After the hum of congratulations is over there ensues a momentary pause.
Some causes of friction may be removed, some tendencies to alienation may be suppressed, if the situation is resolutely faced from the standpoint of a larger social interest rather than from that of momentary or private concern.
In the momentary pause only one man detached himself from the groups.
The lapse in grammar was the momentary result of excitement.
Ever I seek Thee through all clouds of error; As when the moon behind earth's shadow slips, She wears a momentary mask of terror In brief eclipse.
According to this theory, momentary apparitions would be less difficult to accept and to comprehend.
The velocity or momentum acquired may explain the momentary continuation of this movement and the explanation given in the case of No.
Furthermore these wills might appear only at long intervals, or what seem long to us; but the vast abysses of nature's epochs are not to be spanned by our little memories or measured by the momentary duration of our lives.
The table, as I have already said, is alive, pregnant with a kind of momentary vitality.
As is well known, hypnotism only causes a momentary illusion; after the seance, everything takes its original form.
I supposed--shaking off the momentary impression--that what I saw was innocent and normal.
I replied fiercely, for my courage seemed to rise again on the wave of sound and excitement as if rebounding from the momentary shock.
Through the yellowish-green smoke the subaltern had a momentary glimpse of the motor-bike flying in one direction, the rider in another.
Ralph had a momentary vision of a khaki-clad Tommy being lifted five or six feet from the ground and subsiding almost at his feet.
A momentary thirst seized her--an instant's sense of privation, of longing, gone almost as soon as it had come.
She felt a momentary flutter, perhaps of compunction.
As she glanced across the table, she caught a momentary shade of embarrassment in Helbeck's face.
What made it more spectral was the bell on the reefs, swinging in its triangle, always sounding, and the momentary scream of the fog-whistle.
The triple islands, the Three Sisters, in their picturesque wildness appeared like playful freaks of nature in a momentary relaxation of the savage mood.
Twas at the close of a sultry day, the last of August, that I entered a forest at the foot of the Cevennes, and worn with long fatigue and misery, stretched myself upon the moss for momentary rest.
No, 'tis a momentary pain that--but 'twill leave me soon.
The wind blew the breath out of a man's nostrils; all heaven seemed to thunder overhead like one huge sail; and when there fell a momentary lull on Aros, we could hear the gusts dismally sweeping in the distance.
The sight of books in the house of such a family exceedingly amazed me; and I began with a great hurry, and in momentary fear of interruption, to go from one to another and hastily inspect their character.
Whether from the position of his head or the sudden strain of the exertion, he seemed to see a momentaryshock among the stars, and a diffusion of frosty light pass from one to another along the sky.
This done, he was left for a moment in peace, while the two officials drew aside into the embrasure of the window for a momentary conference.
A momentary silence, which the Inspector broke by saying: "Later I called the Curator in, and he also recognized the bow as belonging to the museum.
