Refrained

Examples

• While I thought you could not help yourself, as it were, I refrained from saying it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Next day you had my secret at your mercy, but you nobly refrained from pursuing your advantage. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• More than that it did not do, for she refrained even from ascending the bank and looking over. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• You would have it that such was the case, and I refrained from contradiction. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Even had you felt careless about your own affliction, you might have refrained from singing out of sheer pity for mine. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I refrained from alarming the house, and telling everybody what had happened--as I ought to have done. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But my heart sunk within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Dorothea refrained from saying what was in her mind--how well she knew that there might be invisible barriers to speech between husband and wife. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But he did not hint to me that when I had been better looking he had had this same proceeding in his thoughts and had refrained from it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Emma was gratified, to observe such a proof in her of strengthened character, and refrained from any allusion that might endanger its maintenance. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I refrained from pressing the question. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Dreadful imaginings occurred to Eustacia, but she carefully refrained from uttering them to her husband. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He was very solemn and refrained from talking. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

Typed by Konrad