What is "stammer"

Usage examples of "stammer".

I could just see stammering machine guns spraying the sick bay, could see macdonald and susan, bullen and marston-i crushed down the thought, forced it from my mind.

With stammered apologies, the Lord Marshal sent for servants, who bustled about the tent, fetching food, drink, and a fresh brazier, emptying the tent of all the cots but the ones Lan and Pol were on, and a third one left for Tuck, who was already asleep on it.

Even the most orthodox practitioners had begun to view many forms of illness as internalized behavioral problems--which had always been obvious so far as facial tics, stammers, addictions, and so forth were concerned --and hypnotherapy was proving a useful, inexpensive, effective, and nontoxic form of treatment in many cases: in particular the lowering of blood pressure.

Prince, frightened out of his wits, stammered that the things confiscated during the search had been turned over to Count Joseph de Maistre, the former Sardinian Ambassador.

The priest stammered over the Latin words and mispronounced them horribly.

She thought nothing of the fact that her mother was one of the most outspoken women in London or that her father was still so handsome that her own friends sighed and stammered in his presence.

Stammers suggested that the two go ahead without her, and as soon as the central heating was installed, she would clear up the mess, repolish the furniture, and then join them for the rest of the holiday.

Before I knew it class was over and Marshal was gone, without my having gotten more than a good look at him in his Speedo and a bad case of the flushing stammers as I tried to gain his attention and his help.

Helene in stammering tones, her bosom filled with such joy that she fell on the floor close to the bed, gazing now at her daughter and now at the doctor with distracted looks.

But soon recalling herself to the necessities of the situation, with an effort she shook off the torpor of her memories, and began stammering a few hurried words.

The last of the guests to arrive was Endymion, who came in, looking like a handsome, overgrown schoolboy detected in crime, and stammering an apology for his tardiness.

Coming from a Nonpareil, these words reduced Jessamy to stammering incoherence.

I made the plea without stammering or forgetting my words or otherwise disgracing myself.

I sprang up from my chair and began to talk as quickly as I could, stammering and confused, hardly knowing what I said, but anxious to make him understand in the beginning that I had not come to take back my words of yesterday.

Great, here was his first big decision as a leader, and he was stammering like an idiot!