← The dim man was now again approaching our table, and this time he made up his mind to pause in front of it. 🔊
← Harland paused in the midst of his characteristic stride around the room, threw up his hands toward the ceiling, and groaned aloud: he had often met "that absurd creature" in Paris, and this very morning had received some poems in manuscript from him. 🔊
← He did not enlighten me when he said, after a long pause, "You think I haven't minded." 🔊
← The devil had made as though to stretch forth his hand across the table, but he paused in his gesture. 🔊
← I remember pausing before a wide door-step and wondering if perchance it was on this very one that the young De Quincey lay ill and faint while poor Ann flew as fast as her feet would carry her to Oxford Street, the "stony-hearted stepmother" of them both, and came back bearing that "glass of port wine and spices" but for which he might, so he thought, actually have died. 🔊