moment

He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

Mike, off balance, managed to bat the muzzle away a moment before it exploded.

At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.

But a moment later he brought his horse forward into the light, and Wilson had a good look at him.

He pointed out the switch to me and for a moment I foolishly believed that he would let deed follow words.

they somehow made me expect to see him launch into a vaudeville tapdance routine any moment.

Mitchell Barton drew in the fragrance deeply, letting the smoke lie warm and soothing in his throat for a moment before he exhaled.

Barton waited for a long moment, then asked the question which lay always uppermost in his mind.

For a moment, she could not catch her breath and then, her breath returning in short, frightened spasms, she lifted herself to her feet laboriously.

He waited at the car side for a moment, looking down at her expectantly.

At the moment, the three men were not saying much of anything.

He held out a moment longer, then his nerve gave under the pressure.

As it was, his vision blurred and for a moment he was unable to move.

Much as they had to look forward to, they didn't begrudge a moment of the time they spent seeing them go.

Cobb watched this with hunted eyes, his desperate hope waning by the moment.

If he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.

Sweeping a look around, he saw that he was safe for the moment.

With the rapid rate of closure, the approach from below, the side, and ahead, there would be only a moment when damage could be done.

But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.

He had picked out this pathless trail, instead of the common one, in a moment of romantic fancy, to give them privacy on their honeymoon.

For a moment his hatred toward drunken or careless drivers softened.

She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.