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Sentences starting with restraint

Restraint fell upon them, brought about by the memory of the intimacy of their former meeting, further complicated on Hodder's part by his new attitude toward her father, and his finding her in the company, of all persons, of Mr. Bentley. [9]

Sentences ending with restraint

Whatever suspicion attaches to Smith's relation of his own exploits, it must never be forgotten that he was a man of extraordinary executive ability, and had many good qualities to offset his vanity and impatience of restraint. [4]
He lived on the plane of the impulses and intellect, discarded as inhibiting factors what are called moral standards, decried individual discipline and restraint. [9]
So real was the momentary illusion that, as he passed through the great hall where hung the portraits of the Duke's ancestors, he made a sudden outward motion of his arms as though to free himself from a physical restraint. [11]
The world says that it is a "throwing back"; it is probably only a persistence of the original meanness under all the overlaid cultivation and restraint. [4]
We ought to see all kinds," I suggested, with a fine restraint. [9]
Freedom of the press was not yet granted, but tongues had begun to move freely-indeed, often without any restraint. [10]
I am aware of the danger of half education, of that smattering of knowledge which only breeds conceit, adroitness, and a consciousness of physical power, without due responsibility and moral restraint. [4]
She had a kindly face which seemed to Stephen a little pinched as she turned to them with a gesture of restraint. [9]
Nicholas felt this, it seemed to him that everyone regarded the Italian in the same light, and he treated him cordially though with dignity and restraint. [2]
At first, absorbed in his speculations, enthralled by the company of Carmen and the luxurious, easy-going view of life that her society created for him; he had felt Edith and his house as an irritating restraint. [4]

More example sentences with the word restraint in them

If a man writes a letter or makes report of an occurrence for immediate publication, subject to universal criticism, there is some restraint on him. [4]
I may speak with less restraint of those gentlemen who have aided me in the most laborious part of my daily duties, the Demonstrators, to whom the successive classes have owed so much of their instruction. [3]
The same people, who know each other perfectly well, will enjoy themselves together without restraint in their ordinary apparel. [4]
Our restraint gave way under its influence. [9]
Meantime, whilst he was talking with the protonotary, the bolder guests ventured to move about more freely, and of them all Cordula imposed the least restraint upon herself. [10]
He at first was so insubordinate under restraint that he was put under close ward from which he was not released until, instead of raging with fury he dreamed away his days in sullen brooding. [10]
Intimacy with domains was new to him, and he began to experience an involuntary feeling of restraint which was new to him likewise, and made him chafe in spite of himself. [9]
The guests were very well treated indeed, and were put under no sort of restraint by discipline. [4]
I was shocked to note gentlemen whom I had met in society, with the show of decorum about them, loosed now from all restraint, and swaggering like woodsmen at a fair. [11]
His idea was to keep woman in her place--a good idea when not carried too far--but he did not know what her place is, and he wanted to put a sort of restraint upon her emancipation by coupling her with an emancipated hen. [4]
He knew that this was the end of all or the beginning of all things for them both; and though anger suddenly leaped at the bottom of his heart, he kept it in restraint, the primitive thing of which he had had enough. [11]
His patience under this punishment is admirable, and there is something pathetic in his restraint from profanity. [4]
The tendency of the young woman generally to simplicity, of the American young woman to a certain restraint (at least when abroad), to a deference to her elders, and to tradition, has been noted. [4]
Then Miriam dropped the restraint she had hitherto imposed on herself and, with defiant eagerness, continued: "There I am of a different opinion. [10]
He was in the habit of casting aside whatever displeased him unless it appeared advantageous to impose restraint upon himself; and who would ever have dared to resist the expression of his indignation? [10]
The Church is the governor on our social engine, and it is supposed to impose a restraint upon the lawless. [9]
In spite of the calmness and restraint of the first lines, because of them, I felt creeping over me an unnerving sensation I knew for dread.... "Hugh, the New York doctor has been here. [9]
She hated all that restraint and censoriousness. [4]
She could scarcely tell why she did, save that it opened a door better closed, as it were; but the restraint had given way at last. [11]
She herself had taught him to brook no restraint, to follow impetuously his loves and hates, and endurance in these things was moulded in every line of his finely cut features. [9]
The past--he was suddenly conscious that Byng had changed within the past few days, and that he seemed to have put restraint on himself. [11]
King felt the subtle restraint which he could not define or explain. [4]
He had to submit, in the first place, to the restraint of shoes and stockings. [4]
Would his troubled spirit at least permit him to enjoy and enter without restraint into the play of her quick wit? [10]
Why had she secretly been a little relieved from restraint when her Brandon visit ended in the spring? [4]
They were no restraint upon him. [4]
There is no restlessness and no restraint among these quiet, cheerful worshippers. [6]
There was no repressing it, and the authorities felt daily more and more that their old measures of restraint were failing. [10]
It has the rare fire of aggression; is ever more upon the offence than upon the defence; has, withal, the false lure of freedom from restraint, the throbbing force of sympathy. [11]
It is in our blood, you see" she was talking with less restraint now, for she saw he was listening, despite assumed indifference--"and Pontiac was dearer to me than all else in the world. [11]
Kuni was the only person toward whom at first he imposed some restraint upon himself. [10]
For she, the only daughter, put no restraint on herself in the reserved presence of her mother. [10]
All were members of the highest class of society, and their manners showed the entire freedom from restraint that existed in the Queen's immediate circle. [10]
Many of these novels are merely the blind outbursts of a nature impatient of restraint and the conventionalities of society, and are as chaotic as the untrained minds that produce them. [4]
No, she would no longer put any restraint upon herself. [10]
Besides, the sovereign's mourning exerted a restraint upon mirth and recklessness. [10]
But first and last and all the time, we want you to feel untrammeled and wholly free from restraint, here. [5]
It was great larks for the young ladies whom Mrs. Cortlandt was chaperoning, who behaved with an elaboration of restraint and propriety that kept Irene in a flutter of uneasiness. [4]
She would suffer keenly in tearing it from her heart, but a wild delight seized her at the thought that this imprisonment would soon be over, that she would be free once more, entirely her own mistress, released from every restraint and consideration. [10]
Of two of its attributes only she was sure--that it was to be free from restraint and from odious comparisons. [9]
When he praises, it is with evident pleasure; and when he finds fault, it is with evident reluctance and restraint, excepting where motives purely patriotic urge him to state roundly what it is for the benefit of his country should be known. [5]
Could he help it if after the first hours of his return he felt the restraint of his home, and that the life seemed a little flat? [4]
Ham doesn't believe in restraint of any kind. [9]
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. [7]
Venters had it in him to kill these men as if they were skunk-bitten coyotes, but also he had restraint enough to keep from shooting one of Jane's beloved Arabians. [13]
It was as if, in the photographic machinery of the brain, some shutter had slipped from its place, and a hundred orderless and ungoverned pictures, loosed from natural restraint, rushed by. [11]
In the Australasian home the table-talk is vivacious and unembarrassed; it is without stiffness or restraint. [5]
Daphne, too, covered her face, and imposed the strongest restraint upon herself that she might not sob aloud. [10]
Towards the middle, he throws off restraint, becomes himself, and is strong to the close. [14]
The restraint he had laid upon himself struck him as in fact a great and noble effort, accustomed as he was to yield to every impulse. [10]
Even Mr. Burgess's gravity broke down presently, then the audience considered itself officially absolved from all restraint, and it made the most of its privilege. [5]
There was a gentle inflexibility in their natures born of long restraint and practised determination. [11]
After a few days they grew accustomed to him, and without restraint in his presence pursued their usual way of life, in which he took his part. [2]
Toward the Emperor Charles he imposed a certain restraint upon himself; but the royal adept in reading human nature knew that in him he possessed one of the most loyal servants, and gave him his entire confidence. [10]
There was a certain pathos in this youthful restraint that never failed to touch me, even in those times when I had been most obsessed with love and passion.... [9]
His very seeming carelessness about restraining her was all calculated; he knew that restraint would produce nothing but utter alienation. [6]
The world would call them romancists, if they believed that this restraint could be. [11]
By such examples, by instances of the perpetrators of such acts going unpunished, the lawless in spirit are encouraged to become lawless in practice; and having been used to no restraint but dread of punishment, they thus become absolutely unrestrained. [7]
On the whole, both the leech and Sister Hyacinthe could call Barbara a docile patient, and she often subjected herself to a restraint irksome to her vivacious temperament, because she felt how much gratitude she owed to both. [10]
And the restraint became stronger as the Duchess Agnes, giving one guest a nod, another a few words, advanced nearer and nearer, pausing at last beside Count von Montfort. [10]
If I must be perfectly frank, I'll confess that I resigned castle and estates like a troublesome restraint. [10]
Down here her attitude to life was no longer a rebuke to him nor a restraint upon him. [4]
He was fully as uncomfortable as he looked; for there was a restraint about whole clothes and cleanliness that galled him. [5]
The answer was an assent, but the Emperor gave it after some delay, and with the remark that he could devote little time to her, and expected that she would subject herself to some restraint. [10]
He was not accustomed to impose any restraint upon himself, and thus it soon became known throughout the city that he did not live at peace with his wife and her family. [10]
She had been able to live without her--nay, for a long time her presence had been something of a restraint and a rebuke, and her feelings had hardened towards her. [4]
This assertion evoked a storm of contradiction, and even the younger officers, who usually imposed severe restraint upon themselves in the general's presence, raised their voices to prove that they, too, had looked around the flourishing capital with open eyes. [10]
I spoke with a certain restraint. [9]

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