"I wanted to thank you for rescuing Great-grandfather," he said a little stiffly, after an uneasy pause.

There was an uneasy and deferential pause.

There was an uneasy pause while the visiting professor and the Palafox sons waited for their father to speak.

There was an uneasy pause, as if waiting for Mona, at the beginning of the Third Mystery.

There was an uneasy pause.

She looks into his eyes and after an uneasy pause asks, "Am I getting a zit?"

"There are still questions I am wondering about," Cecile said after a long, uneasy pause.

There was a further uneasy pause.

She stopped, and there was the inevitable uneasy pause as each side waited for the other to make a move.

After an uneasy pause Holtz introduced himself.