Use reserve in a sentence
Sentences starting with reserve
- Reserve your remark till we get to that part of our discussion--tomorrow or next day, say. [5]
Sentences ending with reserve
- There is no use in denying it,--a company without the possibility of a love-match between two of its circle is like a champagne bottle with the cork out for some hours as compared to one with its pop yet in reserve. [6]
- An entire and unsuspected Russian army in reserve! [5]
- They will do their duty, if you open your heart to us without reserve. [10]
- I sail for the States in the Opposition steamer of the 5th inst., positively and without reserve. [5]
- The publication of the event prepared their friends, and precluded the necessity for reserve. [11]
- The Chaldaean priests, the earliest astronomers, would have allowed him to take his observations from the summit of the great temple of Bel, their own observatory, but he refused this offer decidedly, and persisted in his haughty reserve. [10]
- Such sweetness and strength and passion--yes, I have no doubt, passion under all the reserve! [4]
- To the right stood our infantry in a dense column: they were the reserve. [2]
- As for Margaret, she opened her heart to the spring without reserve. [4]
- From the far past, through Quaker ancestors, there had come to Hylda now this grey mist of endurance and self-control and austere reserve. [11]
More example sentences with the word reserve in them
- What becomes of your dogmas, in the face of the first misfortune--dogmas which enjoin a reserve of decisive judgment, that you may preserve your equanimity, and not overburden your soul, in addition to the misfortune itself, with the conviction that something monstrous has befallen you? [10]
- And yet, how would it have been if Ruth Leigh had not had a moment of reserve, of prudent repulsion! [4]
- He shook hands with, and nodded good-humouredly at, Medallion and the Little Chemist, bowed to the avocat, and touched off his greeting to Monsieur De la Riviere with deliberation, not offering his hand--this very reserve a sign of equality not lost on the young Seigneur. [11]
- Our reserve units were able to join up, and the fight was at an end. [2]
- Do they think we are communing with a reserve force of rascals at the bottom? [5]
- Then his mother waxed wroth and exclaimed: "I must beg you to reserve your mirth for a more fitting season and for laughable things. [10]
- Expressing his indignation to the almoner without reserve, he closed the interview with him. [10]
- It is impossible to tell yet what form this feminine reserve and retirement will take. [4]
- Something icy seemed to pass over her, and she immediately lost all self-consciousness, and began to speak to her husband with less reserve than she had shown since he had come. [11]
- At the same time I propounded four interrogatories to him, claiming it as a right that he should answer as many interrogatories for me as I did for him, and I would reserve myself for a future instalment when I got them ready. [7]
- Still they kept this inspiration in reserve for use at the first opportunity. [8]
- He knew that they contained important news for him; but he loved to do violence to his curiosity, to test his resolution, and like an epicure to reserve the best dish till the last. [10]
- Reserve, of course, there had been elsewhere, for did not she hold a secret with him? [11]
- Instead of advising them to turn the other cheek, he taught them uppercuts, feints, and jabs, and on the proof of this unexpected acquaintance with a profession all of them openly admired, the last vestige of reserve disappeared. [9]
- She rarely brought them to our notice; a certain chaste reserve, even later in life, prevented her showing her deepest grief to others. [10]
- The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book--a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. [5]
- I sped through the streets on the errand, spied a Creole company waiting in reserve, and near them, behind a warehouse, a knot of backwoodsmen, French, and Indians, lighted up by a smoking torch. [9]
- I have told the story of a blighted life without reserve, so that there shall not remain any mystery or any dark suspicion connected with my memory if I should be taken away unexpectedly. [6]
- Susan forgot all the rules of reserve to which she had been trained. [6]
- But I reserve the proof for the present--except in the case of the N. Y. Herald; I sent an invitation there the other day--a courtesy due a paper which ordered $240,000 worth of our machines long ago when it was still in a crude condition. [5]
- He had learned the power of reserve and outward immobility. [11]
- I suppose that the most cultivated and best informed portion of the earth's surface--the Western Reserve of Ohio, as free from conceit as it is from a suspicion that it lacks anything owes its pre-eminence solely to this comprehensive journal. [4]
- He had perfectly the diplomatic manner, and the reserve of one charged with grave secrets. [4]
- What a nuisance that our squadron will be in reserve tomorrow," he thought. [2]
- She was so surrounded in America by men who knew her wealth and prized her beauty, she was so much a figure in Virginia, that any reserve with regard to herself was noticeable. [11]
- The insult had stung her, had driven her back into a reserve, out of which she seemed unable to emerge. [11]
- This reserve was so hard for her that her eyes were full of tears when Massi approached to ask what she desired. [10]
- And so, without reserve, he devoted himself body and soul to the preparations for her flight. [10]
- Despite some qualifying reserve she felt, and which had had to do with the redness of his lips, he attracted her. [9]
- Even the king's reserve melted a little, though it was some little trouble to him to adjust himself to the name of Jones along at first. [5]
- Hitherto her austere reserve had been invincible, and during the greater part of their interviews he had been compelled to exert all his influence to soothe, appease her, and atone for imprudent acts which he had committed. [10]
- He confided without reserve every feeling that stirred his soul to the warm-hearted woman who was so many years his senior, and through him she learned many things connected with Octavianus and his surroundings. [10]
- My powers of reserve are far greater than my curiosity even. [10]
- She did not resent this,--she was a woman; but it roused in her a spirit of criticism, and she threw up a barrier of fine reserve, which puzzled Mr. Vandewaters. [11]
- The horses were replaced by others from a reserve gun carriage, the wounded were carried away, and the four guns were turned against the ten-gun battery. [2]
- The corps of Ptah remained as a reserve behind the left wing. [10]
- He made a plausible excuse; but his real reason had been the fear that not even the secret would keep them with him any very great length of time, and so he had meant to hold it in reserve as a last seduction. [5]
- There was a peculiar exclusiveness about her, I might almost say a cool reserve, which, although proofs of her cordial love were not wanting, prevented her from caressing us or playing with us as grandmothers do. [10]
- A faint flush passed over her face, and then, looking at me with a neutral expression and some reserve of manner, she replied: "My husband was not a naval man. [11]
- We should reserve our highest censure for the authors of the mischief, and not for the catspaws which they use. [7]
- He went at once to the king and informed him without reserve of the events of the preceding evening. [10]
- As they walked on side by side in the twilight, a consciousness of repressed masculine force, of reserve power, which she had never before felt about Peter Erwin, invaded her; and she was seized with a strange uneasiness. [9]
- Inform the sisters of their grandmother's death, and tell them the pleasant tidings you have brought us, but reserve until the morning a description of the terrible scenes you witnessed. [10]
- The usual reserve of her manner lessened more and more; nay, the great confidence with which he at first inspired her was increased by his active assistance. [10]
- But the monarch of all European ruins, the Coliseum, maintains that reserve and that royal seclusion which is proper to majesty. [5]
- The great impulse of a nature which had been disciplined into reserve broke forth. [11]
- Reply: yes or no," he shouted, "and then I shall reserve the right to state my opinion also. [2]
- The Southerners are no more sincere than the Northerners, but they have less reserve, and in the social traits that charm all who come in contact with them, they have an element of immense value in the variety of American life. [4]
- Toward him she need not force herself to maintain the reserve which she had exercised in her conversation with the confessor. [10]
- It may be necessary to break through our usual habits of reserve to do this, but this is the fault of the position in which others have placed us. [3]
- Euthymia found so much pleasure in the intellectual companionship of Lurida, and felt her own prudence and reserve so necessary to that independent young lady, that she had been contented, so far, with friendship, and thought of love only in an abstract sort of way. [6]
- To feed with more than a few indifferent crumbs a plebeian appetite for personal details about Personages in her class was not the correct thing, and she blandly points out that there is Precedent for this reserve. [5]
- The question of mesmerism will be discussed with little reserve, I believe, in a forthcoming work of Miss Martineau's; and I have some painful anticipations of the manner in which other subjects, offering less legitimate ground for speculation, will be handled. [14]
- Between these two men, who each had his own interests in view, there was naturally an apparent putting aside of reserve. [4]
- Months glided by, maturing Ulrich's mind as rapidly as if they had been years; but his inclination to retire within himself deepened into intense reserve. [10]
- There were, however, marvels to stir her, strange landscapes, cities, seas, and ships,--once a fire in the forest of a western reserve with gigantic tongues of orange flame leaping from tree to tree. [9]
- They make and mar without rhyme or reason--set business by the ears, alter the gold reserve, disturb the balance of trade, and nobody ever suspects it. [9]
- I hesitate a little to speak of his capacity for friendship and the affectionateness of his nature, for I know from his own reserve that he would not care to have it much talked about. [4]
- It was rather like saying, "I will do what I know you wish me to do; I will lay all reserve aside for your sake; I will be bold because I love you. [11]
- In a northern inland sea two men are standing on the deck of a ship: the one stalwart, clear-eyed, with a touch of strong reserve in face and manner; the other of middle height, with sinister look. [11]
- There was something in the aristocratic reserve of his nature and the cool, penetrating sharpness of his criticism, which is usually found only in men of more mature years. [10]
- Their squadron remained in reserve and Nicholas Rostov spent that day in a dull and wretched mood. [2]
- He had even hoped that the function might be followed by a formal betrothal in the presence of the officials; and the situation might still have been critical for Philip had it not been for the pronounced reserve of the Comtesse herself. [11]
- He is on his guard then, and his natural reserve is to the fore. [5]
- The Emperor and his family threw off all reserve and showed us all over the palace themselves. [5]
- The night of his arrival, Louison, the sister, stood with a brother on either hand--Octave and Florian--and received him with a courtesy more stately than usual, an expression of the reserve and modesty of her single state. [11]
- He always held himself in a kind of reserve with his friend, as if he had said, "Let us respect our personality, and not make a 'mess' of friendship. [4]
- Painfully disturbed by her reserve, he had just attempted to induce her to give a less superficial opinion of his work, when the curtains of the dining room parted-the music of flutes, singing, and pleasant odours greeted him and the guests. [10]
- Among the men her name was never spoken but with reserve and respect, and her afternoon teas were like a little court. [11]
- Thereupon I questioned her in haste and fear, and she answered me with reserve, till, on a sudden, she cried: "It is killing me! [10]
- To-day Kasana expressed her delight at the Hebrew's return with such entire frankness and absence of reserve that the quick-tempered man rushed out of the house lest he might be tempted into some thoughtless act or word. [10]
- The reserve of her calm and maidenly nature broke down; in her ecstasy she snatched from her shoulder the wreath of ivy with which Diodoros had decked her, and waved it aloft. [10]
- So he thought he would hold the tooth in reserve for the present, and seek further. [5]
- Consequently we were hated without reserve by the other tenants of the O'Flannigan "ranch. [5]
- What his sisters guessed when they found that Barbara Golding and the visitor were old friends is another matter; but they could not pierce their brother's reserve on the point. [11]
- Yet she imposed greater reserve of manner upon herself so rigidly that Heinz noticed it, and asked what cloud had dimmed the pure radiance of her gracious sunshine. [10]
- He would reserve further remark until his closing speech. [5]
- As to borrowing from his royal acquaintances his ideas are very simple and expressed without reserve. [6]
- Here was a friendship without any reserve, or any rueful misunderstandings, or necessity for explanations. [4]
- I could account for the modest reserve of the young lady; and the next day Miss Bronte told me how the unexpected sight of a strange face had affected her. [14]
- He had doubted for a long time whether he should not leave this to his mother, but reserve partly and partly vanity had kept him from doing so. [10]
- And after the first sharp sting of it was deadened, I noticed a marked reserve in her intercourse with me. [9]
- I'll reserve everything except the iron, and I'll sell them the iron property for $15,000 cash, I to go in with them and own an undivided interest of one-half the concern--or the stock, as you may say. [5]
- She always said exactly what she meant without reserve or ruth; and throughout her long life, as the mistress of great wealth, she had always been allowed to have her own way. [10]
- Yet no one ever questioned his bona fides, and if he had attended mass at Manitou in the morning, joined a heathen dance in Tekewani's Reserve in the afternoon, and listened to the oleaginous Rev. [11]
- Her reserve vanished entirely, and the conversation between the new acquaintances became more and more eager, intimate, and delightful. [10]
- I could have endorsed Clovelly's estimate of her so far as her reserve and sedateness were concerned. [11]
- The unlooked-for and dignified reserve of her injured husband, together with his ghastly paleness disturbed her, and her inquietude grew to painful anxiety as he maintained silence. [10]
- Sydney, though well deserving the character it bears of its kindly treatment of strangers, possesses a little formality and reserve. [5]
- One of the delights of friendship, as is well known, is the exchange of confidences of joy or sorrow, but there was, in Janet's promotion, something intensely personal to increase her natural reserve. [9]
- A letter from Delia, and also one from Mrs. Gasgoyne, saying that they expected to meet him at Gibraltar on a certain day, and asking why he had not written; Delia with sorrowful reserve, Mrs. Gasgoyne with impatience. [11]
- Even the diaries, curiously frank and without reserve, never mentioned the name, so far as she could find, though here and there were strange allusive references, hints of a trouble that weighed her down, phrases of exasperation and defiance. [11]
- Both saluted the crowd that welcomed them so warmly and loudly, gazing meanwhile at the festal scene, the Emperor with haughty, almost indifferent dignity, the duke with less reserve and more eager gestures. [10]
- This veto power could some time or other have a large value for her, therefore she was wise to reserve it. [5]
- That valiant chieftain came fearlessly on at the head of a phalanx of oyster-fed Pavonians and a corps de reserve of the Van Arsdales and Van Bummels, who had remained behind to digest the enormous dinner they had eaten. [4]
- Maria listened attentively, but maintained a modest reserve, urging him only by loving looks and sympathizing exclamations, while Barbara boldly asked one question after another. [10]
- She was impulsive, but impulse was ruled by a reserve at once delicate and unembarrassed. [11]
- She was a born tease; she loved bright and beautiful things; she was a keen judge of human nature, and she had buoyant spirits, which, however, were counterbalanced by moments of extreme timidity, or, rather, reserve and shyness. [11]
- We need the best we have in reserve. [9]
- His love had been simple, it had been direct, and wise in its consistent reserve. [11]
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