"For the moment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the table, looked into the jug, poured out a little of its contents, and set the vessel down, speechless for the moment with rage. ...
— Burr Junior • G. Manville Fenn
... in the Vexin toward Paris, or on the great campaign for the conquest of England which is to come within ten years,—the greatest military effort that has been made in western Europe since Charlemagne and Roland were defeated at Roncesvalles three hundred years ago. For the moment, we are helping to quarry granite for the Abbey Church, and to haul it to the Mount, or load it on our boat. We never fail to make our annual pilgrimage to the Mount on the Archangel's Day, October 16. We expect to be called out for a new campaign which Duke ...
— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams
... them scatter like a flock of partridges. Scattering is evidently about the last thing the women are thinking of doing, however; they merely turn their attention to the binoculars and concentrate their comments upon them instead of on other of our effects, for the moment, but that ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens
... of the universal fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of men. Only for some reason he hadn't the phrases and he hadn't the voice to assert this over their wrangling and their stiff resolution. He wanted to think the whole business out thoroughly, for the moment he had nothing to say, and there was the labour leader opposite waiting smilingly to hear what he had to say so soon as the bout between the vicar and the rationalist ...
— Soul of a Bishop • H. G. Wells
... down at the man beside him. He liked Bobby Dane, and, for the moment, he felt moved to discard his customary reticence ...
— The Dominant Strain • Anna Chapin Ray
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