Restraining

Examples

• I thank you for restraining me just now. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This is a sumptuary law, too, restraining the luxury and extravagance of the poor. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I had no difficulty in restraining my voice from exclamation, my step from hasty advance. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I kept over him as a child, in the days of his first remembrance, my restraining and correcting hand. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• After the institution of feudal subordination, the king was as incapable of restraining the violence of the great lords as before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The frenzy was so violent, that I had not unfastened the bandages restraining the arms; but, I had looked to them, to see that they were not painful. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Restraining influence, Mr Twemlow? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• If you do, said the Greek, restraining himself with difficulty, you will know how to act wisely. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The company had been suspected of restraining the trade and of establishing some sort of improper monopoly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The heart and hand of the good angel Spenlow would have been always open, but for the restraining demon Jorkins. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He charged himself even with restraining Mr. Skimpole from improving his opportunity. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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