The interpreter talked haltingly in Molotov's speech.

The young ogre talked haltingly at first, stumbling over the words of the common tongue and filling in the governor-general on the position-to the best of his knowledge-of the nearest villages and the number of ogres there.

And refugee parents who long insisted they spoke no English are now haltingly talking with her, less fearful of scorn.

She wished she had remembered that in time, this afternoon. . . . But in Margaret's face when Sarah talked haltingly about Michael she had seen a wry smile, a warm but ironic salute, a strange kind of welcome; a flicker of uneasiness, too, but that was only to be expected.

Mr. Dyson talked haltingly about his sons' problems, and wondered whether he was at fault.

Let's see; there were people who put displacement booths in their living rooms, and when they got robbed, they blamed us McCord talked haltingly at first, then gaining speed.

I could talk to him haltingly in his own tongue, but mainly he got along with his fluent but heavily accented Latin.

He now talked very slowly and haltingly, which led other gnomes he encountered to con- sider him quite stupid.

Wilbur and Evelyn Irwin, Major Irwin's parents, and Christopher Irwin, his oldest son, talked haltingly about the flier on the eve of a Veterans Day ceremony that will honor him and others whose names have been added or whose missing-in-action status has been changed on the memorial.

I talk haltingly about Lamont's Area.