But the lines seemed to waver and then break utterly at the first saloon, where drink was to be had for the asking and Manley Fleetwood was pledged to pay, and the rattle of cans was all but drowned in the shouts of laughter and talk which came from the "office," across the hall.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
Such things tend to throw a man back, but his hardly won battle had been too dear an experience for him to waver now.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
She gave him at once the impression of something kept alive by a will-power so determined that Death himself could only stand aside and wait until it might waver.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole