Reservations

Examples

• By-and-by she said: 'Will you tell me what you refer to about reservations in his manner of speaking of me? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The Indians of the United States are now largely gathered into reservations and their former dress, arms and habits are being gradually changed for those of the whites. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He was dragging out all the little private reservations they had made from social service into the light of a universal religious life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mental reservations and artful mysteries grew out of these things. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It had reservations in it which she did not understand; but then she was weak, dizzy, and tired. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Service, however (with a few limited reservations, genteel but not profitable), they may not do, being of the Dedlock dignity. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But he always speaks of you with regard and esteem, though now I understand certain reservations in his manner. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He held himself to be, with some private scholarly reservations, a believing Christian, as to estimates of the present and hopes of the future. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This was my opinion, and with certain minor reservations, Miss Halcombe's opinion also. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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