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Sentences starting with restrained

Restrained by the walls of stone from being destructive, it seems to rave at its own impotence, and when it reaches the whirlpool it is like a hungry animal, returning and licking the shore for the prey it has missed. [4]

Sentences ending with restrained

Dinner at Weathersfield we youngsters had usually found rather an oppressive ceremony, with its shaded lights and precise ritual over which Mr. Kyme presided like a high priest; conversation had been restrained. [9]
According as one or the other predominates, the action of the heart will be stimulated or restrained. [6]
And suddenly, in one corner, she perceived a table of six where the mirth was less restrained. [9]

Short sentences using restrained

But Venters restrained him. [13]

Sentences containing restrained two or more times

It was not reason that restrained her then, but something higher in her, that restrained him likewise. [9]

More example sentences with the word restrained in them

I had simply written her that after the campaign I had gone for a rest to California; yet in her letters to me, after this information had reached her, I detected a restrained anxiety and affection that troubled me. [9]
Balashev remembered these words, "So long as a single armed foe remains on Russian soil," but some complex feeling restrained him. [2]
The quiet longing which had mastered him was transformed into passionate yearning, but he restrained it by exerting all the strength of will peculiar to him, for a voice within cried out that he was too insignificant for this marvellous maiden. [10]
But the instant warning of the mind that his Highness could never and would never accept the daughter of a Jersey ship-builder restrained him. [11]
A strong impulse urged him to sketch boldly and without long consideration, the picture of the Madonna, as it had once lived in his soul, but he restrained himself, repeating the warning words which had so often been dinned into his ears: Draw, draw! [10]
A passionate longing urged her to remove the cloth, but the boldness of the act restrained her. [10]
He was going to say, "Thanks to you, Fleda," but he restrained himself. [11]
When he came to himself after being wounded and the flower of eternal, unfettered love had instantly unfolded itself in his soul as if freed from the bondage of life that had restrained it, he no longer feared death and ceased to think about it. [2]
The thought ought to have restrained him from such base conduct; but the idea that he was avenging the wrong inflicted upon their father's honour, and thus upon theirs, urged him further and further. [10]
P.S.--If at any time you feel able to take the offensive, you are not restrained from doing so. [7]
And for a time Philip was restrained from intruding the subject of the Mavick sensation. [4]
So may the tides be in some small measure restrained in their inroads. [6]
Tell me not then that the Ordinance of '87 had nothing to do with making Indiana a free State, when we find some men chafing against, and only restrained by, that barrier. [7]
The leader of the orchestra had been accustomed to submit to the sovereign's arrangements as unresistingly as to the will of higher powers, and Barbara also restrained herself. [10]
I tried to struggle to my feet, to speak, but he restrained me. [9]
To-day she felt strangely hampered, restrained of her liberty. [5]
The little bouquet still lay on the writing-table; the young wife saw it, and with difficulty restrained her tears. [10]
The machine was still breaking the types now and then, and no doubt Paige was itching to take it to pieces, and only restrained by force from doing so. [5]
The people only smiled pleasantly, and restrained their desire to buy, if they had any. [5]
At the tables silent couples and restrained family parties, no hilarity, little talking; and what a contrast this was to the happy-go-lucky service and jollity of the White Sulphur! [4]
Perhaps a false sense of pride restrained me, but my duties held me all day in the field, and often into the night when there was curing to be done, or some other matters of necessity. [9]
When theatres were restrained, in 1600, only two were allowed, the Globe and the Fortune, which was on the north side, on Golden Lane. [4]
Anukis perceived what restrained the crowd; for, as the equipage approached its destination, a body of armed youths stopped it. [10]
I was then ordered under arrest for contempt of court, and restrained of my liberty for the best part of the day. [5]
Here was an opportunity, to be sure, if he had anything to say, but some fine feeling of propriety restrained him from taking advantage of it. [4]
Respect for public opinion, and regard for the rights and liberties of the people, have hitherto restrained the spirit of party from attacks upon the independence and integrity of the judiciary. [7]
We have been on the point several times in this journey of making the observation, but have been restrained by a reluctance to touch upon politics, that it was no wonder that a people with such a cuisine should have rebelled. [4]
Mr. Worthington was on the point of giving a tart reply to this, but restrained himself. [9]
A certain feeling of shame had restrained her from leaving Barbara directly after the beginning of her illness. [10]
However, I restrained myself and said-- 'It must have been dreadful. [5]
He even thinks it injurious to the Union cause that they should be restrained in trade and passage without taking sides. [7]
The new case is the very opposite; it is this: men all on fire with pluck and dash and vim and fury and energy--a restrained conflagration! [5]
We had the impulse to cry out, the way you nearly always do when a startling thing happens, but something mysteriously restrained us and we remained quiet, only breathing fast. [5]
She was almost impelled to tell him why, in her excursions to the various quarters, she had found Hampton interesting, but a shyness born of respect for the store of knowledge she divined in him restrained her. [9]
Save for an impatience which at moments I restrained with difficulty, the moods that succeeded one another as I journeyed did not differ greatly from those I had experienced in the past month. [9]
She felt as if she must return to her lover and tell him herself what she had been forced to do in these last days, but maidenly shyness restrained her, till at last Andreas came out. [10]
She excited his hopes and denied him, inflamed his passion and restrained it, and wound him in her toils day by day. [5]
Now he restrained his cynical intention to deal David a side-thrust, and quietly said: "We shall meet at Hamley, shall we not? [11]
So he restrained himself, and when she had gained control over the convulsive sobbing which shook her bosom, he told her his intention of leaving her and not returning until he could expect a less hostile reception. [10]
But he restrained himself and only asked, after a moment of apparent reflection upon the general proposition: "Well, Miss Mavick, you have been here some time. [4]
But she restrained herself, called Pepe and Nouna a couple of old geese, and the "signs," which they had talked about, stupid nonsense. [10]
She knew that he was receiving abounding tokens of kindness and sympathy from different quarters, and a certain inward feeling restrained her from joining in these demonstrations. [6]
The creditors who had so long been silent, restrained by a vague but powerful influence exerted on them while he lived by the count's careless good nature, all proceeded to enforce their claims at once. [2]
What restrained him from clasping her to his breast? [11]
Fear of his fellow-men no longer restrained him, so he frankly said that he would rather sketch industriously from nature, and perhaps would do well to seek Moor in Flanders. [10]
To use an expression which is commonly ignored in polite society, they were "hell-bent" on stealing some of the luscious-looking oranges from branches which overhung the fences, but I restrained them. [5]
Now, after the Emperor had showed her that he still deemed her worthy of regard, she felt for the first time thoroughly neglected, and with difficulty restrained her tears. [10]
Trembling with passionate emotion, he yet restrained himself until she had raised her eyes from his lines and lifted the book, then his power of resistance flew to the winds and, fairly beside himself, he exclaimed: "Maria, my sweet wife! [10]
To continue the comparison of our journals as a class, with the English as a class, ours are more lively, also more flippant, and less restrained by a sense of responsibility or by the laws of libel. [4]
Then they were brought out, smooth, shining, fine-drawn, frisky, spirit-stirring to look upon,--most beautiful of all the bay horse Ormonde, who could hardly be restrained, such was his eagerness for action. [6]
Smith, in return, boasted of his power to get provisions, and said that he had only been restrained from violence by his love for Powhatan; that the Indians came armed to Jamestown, and it was the habit of the whites to wear their arms. [4]
You are certainly aware what a sad breach occurred then, and how long Hermon was restrained before he succeeded in turning his back upon trade. [10]
These qualities modified and restrained each other; and it was by these that he touched the heart. [4]
The traits, good and bad, persist; they may be veneered or restrained, they are seldom eradicated. [4]
The sight of a woodchuck at a distance from his well-known hole tempted John, but he restrained himself, lest somebody should see him, and know that chasing a woodchuck was inconsistent with the stomach-ache. [4]
It undoubtedly was a well-pondered reliance with them that in their own unrestricted effort to destroy Union, Constitution and law, all together, the government would, in great degree, be restrained by the same Constitution and law from arresting their progress. [7]
He manifested, besides, a strong desire to assault the jury; and being restrained and conducted out of court, darkened its only window by standing on his head upon the sill, until he was dexterously tilted upon his feet again by a cautious beadle. [12]
He moved with a restrained swagger which would have been ridiculous had he not been so good-looking and had his handsome face not worn such an expression of good-humored complacency and gaiety. [2]
Shall I be a convict in a felt hat and a grey suit, trotting about a dockyard with my number neatly embroidered on my uniform, and the order of the garter on my leg, restrained from chafing my ankle by a twisted belcher handkerchief? [12]

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