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restrained
1. ’ Liz said in a very restrained voice
2. Restrained embraces fluttered from one to the other out of respect for my loss
3. Drifting languidly from the speakers of a restrained but nonetheless modern stereo system Annie was sure that she could hear the dulcet tones of Leonard Cohen
4. Once Ali faced five balls in a restrained manner, he could sharpen
5. “My mate, you were a lot more restrained than I would have been
6. Restrained good taste would describe it best, I suppose
7. from the speakers of a restrained but nonetheless modern stereo
8. ” He almost said ‘what the Kassikan did to her’ but restrained himself
9. and his marksmanship had brought him restrained praise from the
10. With a carefully restrained tone, she answered, “Thank you very much for the consideration of nominating me for such a position,” she replied to Olivia, and to Mrs
11. go with him,' said Collette with barely restrained fury
12. ’ Gelly restrained himself from pointing out that he
13. Great labour, either of mind or body, continued for several days together is, in most men, naturally followed by a great desire of relaxation, which, if not restrained by force, or by some strong necessity, is almost irresistible
14. seemed strangely restrained and distant
15. By act of assembly, they have restrained its cultivation to six thousand plants, supposed to yield a thousand weight of tobacco, for every negro between sixteen and sixty years of age
16. With the path before her made clear, every motion was restrained within her, condensed into a single coil waiting for its moment in time to explode
17. was immediately restrained by one of the bandits, who
18. A: Even animal lovers concede that the animal must be restrained or terminated
19. But those exertions of the natural liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all governments ; of the most free, as well as or the most despotical
20. If bankers are restrained from issuing any circulating bank notes, or notes payable to the bearer, for less than a certain sum; and if they are subjected to the obligation of an immediate and unconditional payment of such bank notes as soon as presented, their trade may, with safety to the public, be rendered in all other respects perfectly free
21. They are founded upon the most absurd of all suppositions, the supposition that every successive generation of men have not an equal right to the earth, and to all that it possesses ; but that the property of the present generation should be restrained and regulated according to the fancy of those who died, perhaps five hundred years ago
22. Its beneficial influence, however, has been much obstructed by entails ; the heirs of entail being generally restrained from letting leases for any long term of years, frequently for more than one year
23. You are feeling restricted, confined and restrained in a current relationship or business deal
24. To dream that you are in an enclosure that is shrinking indicates that you feel restrained and confined in some circumstance
25. The importation of other sorts of grain was restrained at rates and by duties, in proportion to the value of the grain, almost equally high
26. The freedom of the corn trade is almost everywhere more or less restrained, and in many countries is confined by such absurd regulations, as frequently aggravate the unavoidable misfortune of a dearth into the dreadful calamity of a famine
27. When it came to General Tullius and even his Legate, the anxiety was much more restrained – but no less present
28. First, The engrossing of uncultivated land, though it has by no means been prevented altogether, has been more restrained in the English colonies than in any other
29. It is sort-of restrained laughter, but laughter just the same, and Mr
30. They seemed to think he would’ve needed to be restrained, but Torbin would not give them the satisfaction
31. As their gratification, too, how agreeable soever it may be to certain characters, is not attended with any real or permanent advantage, it is, in the greater part of men, commonly restrained by prudential considerations
32. When the law has restrained them from doing this, they have become altogether useless and insignificant
33. By this constitution, it might have been expected, that the spirit of monopoly would have been effectually restrained, and the first of these purposes sufficiently answered
34. But during the two years in which their agreement with government was to take place, they were restrained from any further increase of dividend by two successive acts of parliament, of which the object was to enable them to make a speedier progress in the payment of their debts, which were at this time estimated at upwards of six or seven millions sterling
35. She wasn’t restrained but she couldn’t move a muscle
36. But the power of the pope, in the collation of the great benefices of the church, seems, before the reformation, to have been nowhere so effectually and so universally restrained as in France and England
37. Her fat restrained
38. “Numbers ten and eleven come here?” Bert made to move but I restrained him saying
39. Whenever she felt hopeless, trapped inside the prison, she thought of Raven, and it almost felt as though they were not restrained but were wrapped up warm, enclosed in their own space
40. as he stood there, restrained by the bar, a cocoon of bladders enveloped him, much as they would
41. ‘No, it really doesn't matter,’ she replied, with clearly restrained annoyance
42. No loose papers littered the top, a wood caddy restrained pens, and, when she peered in a drawer, rows of alphabetized files peered back
43. He had to sit down and he was reasonably charged up (excuse the pun) afterwards, and had to be restrained from fatherly kicking the owner for not warning him properly
44. Man that was great! I hit the target every time, and later had to be restrained from throwing to give others a chance
45. She was able to understand why she was restrained and that she was in a hospital
46. It must be fair to the restrained as well
47. She was restrained and her child was in the hands of a high priest
48. Frank half-rose, but Marcia restrained him, her cool hand on the back of his
49. ” The giggle wouldn’t be restrained
50. Whatever the reason he restrained himself now, I had no doubt that he would use all his power if the stakes were high enough