pausing

For a moment they stood still, white as sheets, frozen with horror at the tragedy; then, shrieking at the tops of their voices, they started on a frantic run up through the woods, never pausing as they crossed the main road to glance the way of the bridge.

After pausing on this point a considerable while, she once more continued to read.

Gardiner was standing a little behind; and on her pausing, he asked her if she would do him the honour of introducing him to her friends.

“Well, Blacas, what think you of this?” inquired the king triumphantly, and pausing for a moment from the voluminous scholiast before him.