Restraint

Examples

• There was an absence of all lady-like restraint in her language and manner most painful to see. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You would compare them, I said, to those invalids who, having no self-restraint, will not leave off their habits of intemperance? Plato. The Republic.
• So we were left to take leave of one another without any restraint. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• No, my love; I should be a restraint upon you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mrs. Hale cried without restraint. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Caution, thought, restraint, prudence, are all swept away by the torrent. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It was not the less present in our minds--it was rather kept alive in them by the restraint which we had imposed on ourselves. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• How then would he use his power when her expression of contempt had dispelled his one motive for restraint? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Nobody there present seemed to impose on him a sensation of unpleasant restraint. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Yet, he must leave them at the end of a week, in spite of their wishes and his own, and without any restraint on his time. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I gave her mother a form of letter to write to Miss Halcombe, exonerating me from any bad motive in putting her under restraint. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She was less and less able to endure the restraint which her father imposed. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• She meant to warn him that Laurie would not bear much restraint, and hoped he would be more forebearing with the lad. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Not it: she will be a restraint. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Sir Percival neither noticed the restraint in her reception of him, nor her sudden withdrawal from our society. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• How hurtful soever in themselves, these, or some other restraints upon importation, became necessary in consequence of that regulation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• That it has hitherto increased them so little, is probably owing to the restraints which it everywhere labours under. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It's his only compensation for the outward restraints he puts upon himself. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• You will find, whenever the subject becomes freed from its present restraints, that it did not take her wholly by surprize. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Its two great engines for enriching the country, therefore, were restraints upon importation, and encouragement to exportation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There has been a slipping off of ancient restraints; a real _de-civilization_ of men's minds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Inquiry freed from prejudice and artificial restraints of church and state had revealed that the world is a scene of law. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• With every development of speech it became possible to intensify and develop the tradition of tabus and restraints and ceremonies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Those different restraints consisted sometimes in high duties, and sometimes in absolute prohibitions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Old habits, old restraints, the hand of inherited order, plucked back the bewildered mind which passion had jolted from its ruts. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The restraints upon importation were of two kinds. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• English commercial jealousy put heavy restraints upon Irish trade, and the development of a wool industry was destroyed in the south and west. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But this critic grasped only one aspect of the restraints upon mental activity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Part I--Of the Unreasonableness of those Restraints, even upon the Principles of the Commercial System. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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