wavered

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In the torch the beard-hair scant With the great breast seemed to pant: In the yellow lamp the limbs Wavered, as the lake-flower swims: In the sunset red the dead Dead avowed him, dry blood-red.

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George

Wavered his mind A weary while, No wont it was Of those days worn by, That queens should flee From the realms of their kings.

From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by Morris, William

The Brahmin, seeing this singular thing, Wavered in mind, like one in a swing; Yet answered the stranger, firmly,—"Sir, This isn't a sheep, but only a cur."

From Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Sanders, Charles W.

And as he sank in deadly sleep, His spirit, like a floating haze, Wavered a moment o'er the snow, A valediction to bestow.

From The Call of the Mountains and other Poems by Pickering, James E.

A prince's banner 5 Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes.

From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by Hartwell, E. C. (Ernest Clark)