What is "faltering"

Usage examples of "faltering".

The flames roared for a few seconds, then went out, and the dragline continued without faltering toward the brink.

But when he was gone, I bit my lip and told Oban in faltering, half-formed sentences that in the last week or so I had been seeing Will Pavic.

They had made good time she was sure, even Salin keeping the pace Kadiya had set without faltering.

With grim pleasure I realized that Sheol was truly dying already, its nuclear fires simmering, faltering, making the entire star shudder as it wavered between stability and explosion.

However, they still concentrated their eyes on Syrah, never faltering.

Faltering, Dain glanced over his shoulder at the Believer who carried Truthseeker and Severgard so gingerly.

Dragon whirled briefly into view above those gray turrets, there were shouts and curses on the boats, and a brief faltering of oars.

Yet, progress in these operational directions may be in danger of faltering if only old Cold War yardsticks are used to make future force investments and to direct studies about future force structure and associated infrastructure.

But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.

This was back in July, in that lull before the storm when the wizards in Washington were beginning to nod glumly at each other whenever somebody suggested that the impeachment drive seemed to be faltering and that maybe Nixon was bottoming out, that in fact he had already bounced off the bottom and was preparing to take the offensive once again.

She reeled back, brought up short by Calot as he added his Mockra power to bolster her faltering parries.

These nerveless few, le Jeu's finest many of whom will go on to directeur future jeux (if not, often, to membership in Les Assassins or its stelliform offshoots) these nerveless and self-contained virtu osi never see their opponents' flinches or tics or the darkenings at corduroys' crotches, none of the normal signs of will faltering which lesser players scan for for the game's finest players frequently close their eyes entirely as they wait, trusting the railroad ties' vibration and the whistle's pitch, as well as intuition, and fate, and whatever numinous influences lie just beyond fate.

The problem is that Henry Ford also built a factory complex in Russia to help the faltering communist economy.

For six years, through many trials, through many falterings, his mission had strengthened and sustained him.

Granted, he had not obeyed perfectly, not without falterings, doubts, temptations, and struggles.