havering

I remember missing the Tet offensive by a few days, because someone had been havering about the expense.

Sandy Gall: 'I fear Afghanistan will become like Vietnam' 2012

Knife of Dreams is a novel in which this havering, hesitant John Majorish ‘a not un-large fire that was not un-warming’ idiocy has spread into all the limbs of the novel.

Archive 2010-06-01 Adam Roberts 2010

Knife of Dreams is a novel in which this havering, hesitant John Majorish ‘a not un-large fire that was not un-warming’ idiocy has spread into all the limbs of the novel.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time 11: Knife of Dreams (2005) Adam Roberts 2010

It is certainly contrary to my experience with the political class in recent decades, but ... is it possible Ms Palin is not a havering dolt?

Sarah Palin was forced to give half of her speech from memory, without the use of the Teleprompter. Ann Althouse 2008

I am also havering over these, which are a LOT more expensive, but still cheaper on Amazon than anywhere else:

In Which I Buy More Shoes (But Not Loafers, This Time) - A Dress A Day 2008

I am also havering over these, which are a LOT more expensive, but still cheaper on Amazon than anywhere else:

October 2008 2008

Cameron was *perfect* yesterday: no silly jokes, completely magisterial, sensible suggestions about how to increase security which our havering fool of a Prime Minister couldn't respond to ....

Brown Trounces Ming at PMQs 2007

I'm havering over buying Ken Burns's The Civil War on DVD prime reason: lots of Shelby Foote, but am worried about the completeness of the UK edition.

grahamsleight's Journal 2005

Non-use of the final comma is to some extent a British trait, but as using the comma never hurts, and omitting it sometimes produces ambiguity or oddness, there is no point in havering over whether to use it or not in this case or that.

languagehat.com: WHY SERIAL COMMAS ARE A GOOD THING. 2004

After he'd finished havering, and not saying what couldn't be said, he turned to go, still looking uneasy.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990