Constrained

Examples

• Suppression of so much to make room for so much, had given him a constrained manner, over and above. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mrs. Rouncewell is constrained to admit that he is in the house. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The assemblies for three years held out against this injustice, though constrained to bend at last. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It makes instruction and learning formal, mechanical, constrained. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In the last degree constrained, reserved, diffident, troubled. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Now I am so pressed by the Guises and my own people that _I am constrained_ to deliver you up into the hands of your enemies, and to-morrow you will be burned unless you are converted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• You have told me several times that you pity me, and I, in my turn, pity you, who have used the words _I am constrained_. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He wanted to thank her for having been to see his mother, but under the ancestress's malicious eye he felt himself tongue-tied and constrained. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He had been constrained to depute Mr Venus to keep their dusty friend, Boffin, under inspection, while he himself turned lank and lean at the Bower. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And she hurried again into the road, and again constrained herself to walk regularly and composedly forward. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Being no longer sullen or furious, he grew, after his fashion, constrained and embarrassed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• If you wish, I'll see Madame Olenska, he said in a constrained voice. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He was not so constrained. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But you do--you do make it harder to me, said Bulstrode constrained into a genuine, pleading cry. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Yet underneath she was constrained, she knew her own insistence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Reflective dealings with the material of instruction is constrained and half-hearted; attention wanders. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Thank you,' said Bradley, seating himself in his constrained manner. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• His love is constrained, and his hatred artificial; he is less interesting to women than the warrior. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I forced myself to be constrained, lest you might misinterpret my being more natural. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Gradually and insensibly our daily relations towards each other became constrained. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But his words came easily, and his voice was agreeable in tone, albeit constrained. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He seemed to be a shy man, struggling against nervousness, and spoke in a very constrained way. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But she kept her back turned to her son much longer than was necessary; and when she spoke, her voice seemed unusual and constrained. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Thou canst not shake me by thy petty malice, answered Front-de-Boeuf, with a ghastly and constrained laugh. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• She listened attentively, with the constrained expression still on her face, and her hands still nervously clasped together in her lap. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They do not fix his attention upon the fact that he has to learn something and so make his attitude self-conscious and constrained. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Sam constrained himself, however, and replied that his master was extremely well. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The How d'ye do's were quiet and constrained on each side. Jane Austen. Emma.

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