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"Section F, G and H"


Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space
and distance falters.
I. Taylor.


Fal"ter, v. t. To utter with
hesitation, or in a broken, trembling, or weak manner.


And here he faltered forth his last
farewell.
Byron.


Mde me most happy, faltering "I am
thine."
Tennyson.



Fal"ter (?), n. [See Falter,
v. i.] Hesitation; trembling; feebleness; an
uncertain or broken sound; as, a slight falter in her
voice.


The falter of an idle shepherd's
pipe.
Lowell.


Fal"ter*ing, a. Hesitating;
trembling.
"With faltering speech." Milton. --
n. Falter; halting; hesitation. --
Fal"ter*ing*ly, adv.


||Fa`luns" (?), n. [F.] (Geol.)
A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France,
abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene
subdivision.


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