Lost one's footing

Usage examples of faltered.

She faltered then, feeling a blush suffuse her face as if she were an undisciplined adolescent for she was not conducting his rescue in a proper way.

Jeff Raven prompted his daughter when she faltered, although what she was finding hard to say was the reason for her contacting her parents.

The group moved closer to the aliens, and stopped three metres away as the medic faltered once more.

Conversations stopped and even the band faltered for a beat as everyone watched et pass.

The bronze rider had always been slow to make up his mind, but his loyalty never faltered after he had.

I picked up the scissors and ruthlessly, before my resolution faltered, I cut off my long braids and stuffed them into the darkest corner of the press.

Domick finished for her, when she faltered because Master Jerint was wide-eyed with astonishment and incredulity.

Belatedly she recognized that she could have hedged: with her scarred hand she could have faltered, missed some of the chordings.

Finally Borgald began to take an interest in the children orphaned by the raiders, and although his smile faltered when he inadvertently looked about for his son, Armald, he began to recover.

Only the fact that neither Jancis nor Benelek faltered kept him going.

He could never forget how much he personally owed the dragons who had kept him alive when his labored heart had faltered that terrible day at Ista Weyr two Turns earlier.

Their chanting noticeably faltered as the sound of hoofbeats and shouts penetrated to the dragon circle.

His step faltered as his eyes went instinctively toward the distant Weyr in the hills above Fort Hold.

Kindan faltered, still keenly feeling the loss of the one parent he had known.

The rest of the herd, which had been moving to the attack, faltered and stared in uncomprehending horror at the stallion's wild attempts to dislodge his rider.