Delayed

Examples

• By a most fortunate chance his leaving Highbury had been delayed so as to bring him to her assistance at this critical moment. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Altogether, on the Isthmus and on the Pacific side, we were delayed six weeks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• She had understood it was to be delayed till Colonel Campbell's return. Jane Austen. Emma.
• And in the same interests, if the coming of the physician is delayed, I will enter it again. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is a forlorn hope at the best, and not much the forlorner for being delayed till dark. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I don't know what would have happened, Walter, said my mother, if you had delayed much longer. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Justice, too, might frequently be delayed, in order that this present might be repeated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Why had not George's marriage been delayed? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Either his going had been again delayed, or he had yet procured no opportunity of seeing Miss Crawford alone, or he was too happy for letter-writing! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• If ever she delayed compliance, it was only to hear them repeated, and to enjoy her child's soft, half-playful, half-petulant urgency. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• An accident, for which he was not responsible, delayed him on his errand. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• What a real pity that she stayed so short a time, and you delayed! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The moment he appeared she asked anxiously how long the meeting between her sister and herself was to be still delayed. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I must find Mr. Gardiner this moment, on business that cannot be delayed; I have not an instant to lose. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Her departure, as well as mine, was delayed by a circumstance which I will now relate. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Dearest Lizzy, I hardly know what I would write, but I have bad news for you, and it cannot be delayed. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• How rejoiced was Elizabeth that their own journey had not by any circumstance been delayed a day! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Some directions necessary to be given to her foreman, John, delayed her behind her cousins as they neared Fieldhead on their return. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mr. Wickham's happiness and her own were perforce delayed a little longer, and Mr. Collins's proposal accepted with as good a grace as she could. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• But that readjustment cannot be indefinitely delayed; it must come soon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To be intruded on Robert thus, against her will and his expectation, and when he evidently would rather not be delayed, keenly annoyed her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I would have delayed; I wished to recommend watchfulness to Perdita, but his presence restrained me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Don't doubt my return, Marian, however it may be delayed--and fear nothing. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• If any unforeseen accident delayed him, I was to accompany her to the station, and to take special care that she was in time for the train. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But their enterprise was delayed by the absence of more than one main limb of the confederacy. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The crescent moon, set like a silver signet in the western sky, delayed a little the approach of night. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• My medical enterprise (as Betteredge calls it) must now, inevitably, be delayed until Monday next. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But the pride of this people cannot bear the thought of it, and therefore it will be delayed. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Certainly it was not worth being delayed by something so sad and ugly and apparently worthless. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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