Use detained in a sentence
Sentences ending with detained
- Whatever letters are sent across the frontier between Pelusium and the Red Sea will be detained. [10]
- Just then some people from town came to speak to him, and he was detained. [11]
- Some of the peasants said that these new arrivals were Russians and might take it amiss that the mistress was being detained. [2]
- On the stairs he was detained. [10]
- Hosea paused for a moment, lost in thought then, with a kindly glance at him answered, gravely "Whoever serves a master knows not how long he may be detained. [10]
- I was detained. [10]
More example sentences with the word detained in them
- A very interesting young married woman, detained at home at the time by the state of her health, was bitten in the entry of her own house by a rattlesnake which had found its way down from The Mountain. [6]
- He rose to withdraw; but she detained him, saying: "Now it is your turn, Captain. [10]
- Even the contrary winds would not have detained them so long, for they were abundantly supplied with rowers. [10]
- Who can tell what may have detained Argutis? [10]
- When the sun went down, and the busy crowd were about to leave, Nefert detained them, and said: "The Sun-bark is sinking behind the western hills; come, let us pray together for the king and for those we love in the field. [10]
- One might as well set the gentlemen detained in the public prisons to trying each other. [5]
- Her husband, who was to become my dearest friend, was detained in Stuttgart by business. [10]
- This time it was gratitude, fervent gratitude, which detained her in church. [10]
- In Memphis Hadrian was detained a whole month, for there he was expected to visit the Egyptian temples with Sabina, who had arrived before him, and to submit to many ceremonials invested with the regalia of the Pharaohs. [10]
- The Secretary of War will, however, in his discretion, except from the effect of this order any persons detained as spies in the service of the insurgents, or others whose release at the present moment may be deemed incompatible with the public safety. [7]
- It outlasted their walk and detained them long on the steps of the 'Every Other Week' building. [8]
- I shall never view again the citadel on those tall heights where I was detained so barbarously, nor the gracious Manor House at Beauport, sacred to me because of her who dwelt therein--how long ago, how long! [11]
- Once he started up to fly, but he again heard the bewitching tones of her musical laugh, and mysterious powers detained him, forcing him to listen. [10]
- So he detained Ulrich with cheering words, and gave him a task in which he could probably succeed. [10]
- Now he bowed to the gentlemen, offered her his arm, and as they descended the staircase, whispered: "The mask who escorted you just now detained me;--and there . [10]
- Thanks, uncounted thanks to the angelic ladies whose charming attentions detained him from Saturday to Thursday, to his great advantage and my infinite bewilderment! [6]
- A strong desire to regain perfect self-possession ere he again mingled in the jubilant throng and met his father, who shared every lofty emotion that stirred his own soul, detained him on the battle-field. [10]
- He went up to Mrs. Horn for a moment's hail and farewell, and felt himself subtly detained by her through fugitive passages of conversation with half a dozen other people. [8]
- I had listened to him passively while he had held my buttonhole, and he had detained me but an instant. [9]
- While Ruth was thus absorbed in her new occupation, and the spring was wearing away, Philip and his friends were still detained at the Southern Hotel. [5]
- The messengers for this purpose reported that the Dutchmen, though not detained by Powhatan, would not come, and the Indians said they could not bring them on their backs fifty miles through the woods. [4]
- Please ascertain why they are detained, and get them off if you can. [7]
- Althea had asked the sculptor whether he still regretted having been detained by her before midnight, and he had confessed that his remaining at the banquet had been connected with a great sacrifice--nay, with an offence which weighed heavily on his mind. [10]
- She was awaiting the return of her sister, who, she supposed, was still detained on the Owl's Nest by old Tabus's predictions; she had sorrowful tidings for her. [10]
- The inspection of the mausoleum had detained the young father too long and, though disguised beyond recognition, he reproached himself for having recklessly incurred a danger whose consequences--he felt this to-day for the first time--would not injure himself alone. [10]
- Outside the door the major-domo detained Barbara, and had a tolerably long conversation with her, of which the marquise vainly endeavoured to catch even a few words. [10]
- The war against the Libyan rebels had detained him eighteen months from his home, and he had seen ten crescent moons grow full since any news had reached him of his kindred. [10]
- Remind him of the full moon on the coming night and, though ten Alexandrians detained him, he would escape from them to hear what I bring him. [10]
- The hotel and the fortress at this enchanting season, to say nothing of other attractions, with laughing eyes and slender figures, might well have detained Mr. Stanhope King, but he had determined upon a sort of roving summer among the resorts of fashion and pleasure. [4]
- It was scarcely the daughter of Archias who had detained Hermon, for he made only a brief answer--Ledscha could not hear what it was--when she accosted him pleasantly, to devote himself to Althea, and--this could be perceived even at a distance--thank her with ardent devotion. [10]
- He had learned the coolness of her nature in his first attempts to woo her in Ratisbon and, as at that time, he whom the service frequently detained from her for long periods regarded it as a merit. [10]
- In this institution the convict can only be detained for the maximum term provided in the statute for his offense. [4]
- The prisons of the city had overflowed after the night of the holiday and he had been transferred to Canopus and there detained and brought up for trial. [10]
- But instead of that, at the next village the sentinels of Davout's infantry corps detained him as the pickets of the vanguard had done, and an adjutant of the corps commander, who was fetched, conducted him into the village to Marshal Davout. [2]
- You see----" At that point we were swept apart by the crowd, somebody detained me with a moment's talk, and we did not get together again. [5]
- And frequently, when that gentleman was detained in town by business, he would stop at the little home for tea. [9]
- But often he telegraphed in the afternoon that he was detained by business; he had to see Henderson, or Mavick was over from Washington. [4]
- His pen was swift, and that very evening he went to the palace of the Inquisition, with the documents and indictment, but was detained there a long time the following day, to have his verbal deposition recorded. [10]
- Even on a swift steed he could not have traversed the road back to the castle if he had been detained only half an hour in the Golden Cross. [10]
- He was in such haste to do this that he detained Wolf, who wanted to speak to old Ursel before he began to drink the wine, by the statement that she suffered from wakefulness, and he would disturb her just as she was falling asleep. [10]
- The high-priest went straight up to him, and said, as he bowed before him: "Pardon my long delay, but I was detained by a great surprise. [10]
- She detained Eva so long that dinner was over at the Ortlieb mansion, and her impatient father would have sent for her had not the invalid mother urged him to let her remain. [10]
- She detained the smith in the house, repeating her former words: "The men from Aalst are not coming; he is keeping diem back. [10]
- The longer the sergeant-major detained him the better. [10]
- Important matters, he said, had detained him at the last moment, and he particularly enjoined Mrs. Pomfret's butler to listen carefully for the telephone, and twice during lunch it was announced that Mr. Crewe was wanted. [9]
- Yet I cannot refrain from informing Monsieur Soury here that "An Egyptian Princess" detained me from no other work. [10]
- Katharina detained her, questioned her with a trembling voice, put the lamp close to her, and held her breath while she examined her face, her neck, and her arms for the dreadful spots. [10]
- He would have preferred to pass her unnoticed, but she had clung to his arm and was trying, with coaxing graciousness, to soften his indignation by gaily relating how she had come here and what had detained her and her companions. [10]
- The gardeners of Polybius, with their ass, had been detained in an inn on this side of Lake Mareotis by the closing of the harbor, and Andreas had taken the precaution of making use of them. [10]
- He knew, through Philippus, what duty still detained the deceived artist, but he learned, at the same time, that his own imprisonment had been determined, and it would be advisable for him to leave the city behind him as quickly as possible. [10]
- The old hero Philippus was detained in the fortress by the preparations for war. [10]
- The Athenian went on: "I met with no hindrances on my journey till this morning at the first hour after midnight, when I was detained by a strange occurrence. [10]
- But this difficulty of travel and liability to be detained long on the road were cheered by good inns, such as did not exist in the world elsewhere. [4]
- Thus the daughters of the Woller family from the Ark, who had appeared one afternoon, had been detained only a little longer by her than other Protestant matrons and maidens. [10]
- He had heard of the treachery of the fleet while entering a hired boat with the freedman in the harbour of Eunostus, Pyrrhus's having been detained with the other craft before the Temple of Poseidon. [10]
- Only the hope of the first token that Lienhard was not so cold and unconquerable as he seemed, that she would at last constrain him to pass the barrier which separated them, still detained her. [10]
- The colony had now several of the Indians detained in the fort. [4]
- Afterwards, you did not come home immediately any more than I did, and I suspect that it was Irene who detained you. [10]
- As Barbara could not be detained, Frau Lamperi, though reluctantly, obeyed this command. [10]
- The countess would not be detained long, for the sun had already sunk behind the towers and western wall of the fortress, and the reflection of the sunset was tinging the eastern sky with a roseate hue. [10]
- When they were no longer detained by the Egyptian delegates he desired the charioteer to drive slowly, for he wished to gain time for consideration. [10]
- Mrs. Callendar was loud in her exclamations of delight and wonder at Mrs. Falchion's coolness; and the bookmaker, with his usual impetuosity, offered to take bets at four to one that we should all be detained to give evidence in the matter. [11]
- As they were likely to be detained some time in the city, Harry told Philip that he was going to improve his time. [5]
- Does any one know what has detained him? [10]
- Melissa knew that it could be no trivial matter which detained him there, and hurried after him into the tavern. [10]
- Kit made an involuntary start towards the door in his anxiety to answer for himself, but being speedily detained by the constable, had the agony of seeing Sampson Brass run out alone to tell the story in his own way. [12]
- Fright was turned into joy by the sight of the Phoenix, with Captain Nelson and his company, who had been for three months detained in the West Indies, and given up for lost. [4]
- But a new incident detained her, as though bound with fetters, under the sycamore. [10]
- The few persons in the courtyard had been detained, and perhaps everything might yet be well. [10]
- He was detained in the city by a matter of importance. [4]
- Nothing detained him in Leyden, yet he could not leave it until everything was settled in the house where he had so long ruled. [10]
- Nefert had come in late, had excused her delay by shortly explaining to her mother that she had been detained by Bent-Anat, and had then affectionately offered her brow for a kiss of "good-night. [10]
- He was detained in a little consultation after the Congressional prayer meeting. [5]
- The Queen's commission imposed upon Wolf a long series of inspections, inquiries, orders, and preparations, the most important of which detained him a long time at the Golden Cross. [10]
- Was the lad's illness serious, or what other cause detained Hosea in Tanis? [10]
- But, my friends, I have detained you much longer than I expected to do. [7]
- Why should it hurt her that the liberated prisoner did not seek her; why did she secretly cherish the foolish hope that momentous duties detained him? [10]
- It was many hours before it was again unlocked to let out the bishop, so long was he detained talking to Paula in her cell. [10]
- Or had Heinz, his friend, sent him to watch over her while he was possibly detained by the Emperor? [10]
- But Els detained him, whispering: "Whatever wrong was inflicted upon us yesterday, do not let it prejudice you, father. [10]
- Melissa, however, detained him, saying: "I will go with you if you will allow me. [10]
- The merchant advised him to wait and see what came of it, as did Damia and Gorgo who were attracted to the spot by the vehemence of the discussion; but Karnis would not be detained, and he and Orpheus hurried off to the rescue. [10]
- What still detained him in Madrid? [10]
- Arsinoe had entered here before the dishonest philosopher and had gone straight to Hannah's house without being detained by the gate-keeper. [10]
- The mistress gave her daughter a sign to make preparations for their guest, but Petrus detained Marthana, and said, "Hermas may fill Antonius' place; he has still something to do with some of the workmen. [10]
- His connection with her and with this tragedy is not known, but he was also taken into custody, and will be detained at least as a witness. [5]
- Speranski told Kochubey he was sorry he had been unable to come sooner as he had been detained at the palace. [2]
- But scarcely had he quitted the Bruchium when he was detained by the crowd assailing the house of Didymus with beams and rams, and at the same time keeping off the Ephebi who had attacked them. [10]
- Marcus, only too happy, wanted to hurry away at once to his mother and tell her what he had heard, but Demetrius detained him. [10]
- Often, after she had taken their dictation, or brought their manuscripts home, they detained her in conversation. [9]
- Why, oh why had she allowed herself to be detained here? [10]
- Glaukias, the sculptor, had previously seen the Egyptian on the bridge, where he had detained those who were returning home from the city of the dead. [10]
- Yet, though Katterle had just said that Countess von Montfort was waiting outside in her great sedan-chair for the young ladies, they were still detained, for they would not leave the Town Hall without thanking the city clerk and saying farewell to him. [10]
- It was not granted, for even during the high mass for the soul of his dearest friend, which also detained the Ortliebs in church, he sought Eva's glance only too often, but always in vain. [10]
- My father and Gobryas have very likely detained him. [10]
- Irving intended to go to Washington and apply for a commission in the regular army, but he was detained at Philadelphia by the affairs of his magazine, until news came in February, 1815, of the close of the war. [4]
- But the swiftly flowing throng was soon dammed; for the spot which afforded refreshment detained the front ranks, which blocked the whole procession as thoroughly as a wall or moat. [10]
- The sculptor had failed to find Antinous, and suggested that the young man had probably gone home; he also begged that he might not be detained long at supper, for he had met his master Papias, who had been extremely annoyed by his long absence. [10]
- And the same experience had befallen her eyes; for whenever memory reverted to those distant days, she had beheld him just as he now looked standing on the threshold, where he was detained by the landlady of The Pike. [10]
- The latter, with downcast eyes, thanked Master Adrian and turned away; but he detained her with the inquiry whether he should probably find Sir Wolf Hartschwert at home, and received the answer that he had gone to Syndic Hiltner's. [10]
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