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Meanings of painful indecision in English

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Usage of painful indecision in English
1
Mrs Wyllys answered not, but she stood the image of doubt and painful indecision.
The Red Rover: A Tale
2
He stood by the pantry sink in painful indecision.
The Haunted Bookshop
3
The transaction over, he felt the deceptive buoyancy that follows on periods of painful indecision.
The Custom of the Country
4
To these offers Herbert listened with painful indecision.
Evenings at Donaldson Manor; Or, The Christmas Guest
5
With a painful indecision McCann pulled a paper from his pocket which I saw was a warrant.
The Celebrity, Volume 04
6
Robert watched her in painful indecision.
Robert Elsmere
7
Presently in the midst of his painful indecision, an answer suggested itself like a whispered hint from some invisible prompter:
Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self
8
At length after walking up and down the street in a state of painful indecision he returned and ventured to knock.
Beneath the Banner: Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave De...
9
Rachael, one arm on Magsie's shoulder, her whole figure and her face expressing painful indecision, had never seemed so remote, so goddesslike.
The Heart of Rachael
10
At times she would display a lack of willpower, and an element of painful indecision; while at other times she showed exceptional firmness.
The Arena, Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
11
He had grown very pale, and was pushing the hair from his forehead with the gesture habitual to him in moments of painful indecision.
The Fruit of the Tree
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