Then the questioners paused for a moment, and resumed as if another side of the problem had just come to their notice.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Rosalind saw him stopped as he walked through the groups that were lingering silently for a chance of good news; and guessed that he had none to give, by the way his questioners fell back disappointed.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
But all eager questioners were waved aside while Dr. Perkins and his young friends called for volunteers to help lift the injured man out of the Sea Eagle.
"The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune"
Wilbur Lawton