Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 407 Poyntynge, or pawsynge in redynge, punctuacio, pausacio.

?c1525 (a1503) Receyt Ladie Kateryne (Coll. Arms M.13) (1990) i. 11 They hadde also ordeyned vj stacions and places of pausing where were wrought and arreysid vj costly, pleasaunt, and goodly pagayntes.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 53 After long pausing thus she sayd elflyke.

1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. 16 Such pawsings are well reprooued by Palladio.

1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) IV. xxi. 108 Thy tearful pausings shall not be helped out by me.

1819 C. R. Maturin Fredolfo i. ii. 22 I hear a horn, 'tis breathing from the vale—In the deep pausings of the storm.

1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. xix. 307 The gropings and pausings of the beetles on the floor.

1904 H. James Golden Bowl I. xxii. 364 He saw Charlotte appear above as if she had been called by the pausing of his feet on the flags.

1992 D. Cameron Feminism & Ling. Theory 46 Some believe pausing is the hallmark of a careful or thoughtful speaker.

2004 A. Wengelin & S. Strömqvist in R. A. Berman Lang. Devel. Childhood & Adolescence 188 A final observation is the substantial decrease in inter-sentence pausing from the 4th-graders to the older age-groups.

1572 T. Churchyard tr. Ovid Thre First Bookes De Tristibus iii. f. 18 From thence wyth slender pausing pace, to lofty steps was brought, And stately Temples built on high, of great Apollo sought.

1582 G. Whetstone Heptameron Ciuill Disc. sig. Xi When Dinner, and a little other pausyng talke was ended, the companie arose.

1627 Manwaring in D. Jones Land (1927) 104 Nor yet abuse their long & pausing deliberation.

1719 T. Tickell To Earl Warwick, On Death Addison 16 The slow solemn knell..The pealing organ, and the pausing choir.

1810 L. Aikin Epist. Women 39 Led by the sage, with pausing foot she roves By classic fountains.

1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. iii. 97 Lawn and lake enough..I had, in the North Inch of Perth, and pools of pausing Tay.

1974 R. Adams Shardik liv. 441 ‘So that's why you came back?’ said Genshed, looking at him with a kind of pausing curiosity.

2001 Agence France Presse (Nexis) 21 Mar. Given the pausing economy..the balance between supply and demand in the domestic market is likely to exert downward pressures.