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- Now without detaining you any longer, I propose that you help me to close up what I am now saying with three rousing cheers for General Grant and the officers and soldiers under his command. [7]
- She ordered everybody who came near her to explain what had happened, thus detaining her granddaughter Helena, who was trying to save the most valuable articles in the dwelling. [10]
- And besides she was sure they wanted her up stairs by this time, and she must go, indeed-- 'No, but Barbara,' said Kit, detaining her gently, 'let us part friends. [12]
- They will find some way of detaining him there. [10]
- I see no reasonable ground for detaining her, Heron. [10]
- In the meantime our friends, with a view of detaining our expected bolters, had been turning from me to Trumbull till he had risen to 35 and I had been reduced to 15. [7]
- What Verus was now projecting he regarded as being a simple act of self-defence; and after all, it consisted merely in detaining Hadrian for an hour, interrupting him in an idle occupation--the observation of the stars. [10]
- Run along, now, I won't be detaining you, Miss Bumpus, and you'll accept my apology. [9]
- She moved swiftly forward despite the detaining hand of the Duke's Daughter. [11]
- Therefore when they dewelope an intention of parting company from us, I shall take measures for detaining of 'em, and restoring 'em to their friends, who I dare say have had their disconsolation pasted up on every wall in London by this time. [12]
- I have been detaining you longer, perhaps, than I ought to do. [7]
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