Hayt asked, fighting an odd reluctance to ask that question.

Yet he felt an odd reluctance when he gave the command to settle the company for the night in a small open glade.

I felt an odd reluctance about approaching, and did so at last only because my business took me through and past it.

"I beg your pardon, dam-i-ser," she said, after a moment, and there was an odd reluctance in her voice.

With every step he took forward he sensed an odd reluctance growing within him.

Fighting an odd reluctance, she waded out into the wild mustard after him.

But when it came to speaking of his conversation with the goddess, Niall experienced an odd reluctance to go into detail.

Amaryllis's sense of responsibility overcame her odd reluctance to pick up the receiver.

With an odd reluctance Simon did as she had done, took the man's head between his hands.

But at the same time an odd reluctance came over him, almost a shyness.