What is "haltingly"

Usage examples of "haltingly".

By far the commonest type of of galactic society was that in which many systems of worlds had developed independently, come into conflict, slaughtered one another, produced vast federations and empires, plunged again and again into social chaos, and struggled between whiles haltingly toward galactic Utopia.

Haltingly she began to sing it, her voice reflected in the gentle crackling of the campfire, the pulsing of the flames that licked the blade of Daystar Clarion.

When she moved haltingly toward the litde clutter of pots and dishes near the center of the tent, Picardy noticed that her left foot was clubbed.

Corinna was reading in her clear voice, although haltingly at times, as she paused to ask Telyn the pronunciation of some words in a papyrus book.

Kate, nestling gratefully within his embrace, her cheek against his waistcoat of striped toilinette, told him, rather haltingly, but quite calmly, all that Lady Broome had said in each of the painful sessions she had endured with her.

He apologized, haltingly at first, and then in an increasingly frantic, semicoherent monologue.

Carrying a spearlike weapon, it moved haltingly, as if unaccustomed to movement outside of the sea.

The words came haltingly, even though he had rehearsed them a dozen times, new waves of nausea washing through him.

The Navajo will call his white friend Bi Nai--brother," said Nas Ta Bega, and he spoke haltingly, not as if words were hard to find, but strange to speak.

He remembered wondering what had happened to make their brothering so difficult, but after Eddie had begun, haltingly and with that sort of resentful anger that proceeds from deep pain, the gun­slinger could have stopped him, could have told him: Don't bother, Eddie.

He spoke haltingly, as if he were waiting for a cadenced answer from his twin.

The man in charge of the crew read haltingly from his cheat sheet of German phrases to fill in the local workers, and another quiet cheer went up.

Once in business life, they would then be able to type their own letters instead of mumbling haltingly at a secretary or pouring out verbose torrents into a dictating machine.

He buried his face in his duffel coat, climbed laboriously, haltingly up the ladders to the bridge.

Things haltingly stirred to life, a ballerina with empty eye sockets elevating itself en pointe, a sawn-off oem-media dell'arte Punchinello grinning with malice and shaking a bell-cuffed fist at unseen enemies.