1 She was rather surprised, therefore, when the silence remained unbroken, and Jo assumed a patronizing air, which decidedly aggravated Meg, who in turn assumed an air of dignified reserve and devoted herself to her mother.
2 They did feel it, yet neither spoke of it, for often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
3 Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening.
4 I generally contrived to reserve a moiety of this bounteous repast for myself; but the remainder I was invariably obliged to part with.
5 I learnt so much from himself in an inroad I once, despite his reserve, had the daring to make on his confidence.
6 Besides, I was out of practice in talking to him: his reserve was again frozen over, and my frankness was congealed beneath it.
7 Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three-and-twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.
8 The particulars I reserve till we meet; it is enough to know they are discovered.
9 It was owing to him, to his reserve and want of proper consideration, that Wickham's character had been so misunderstood, and consequently that he had been received and noticed as he was.
10 Perhaps there was some truth in this; though I doubt whether his reserve, or anybody's reserve, can be answerable for the event.
11 He retained a great deal of the reserve for which his boyhood was remarkable; and that served to repress all startling demonstrations of feeling.
12 In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
13 I think that he would have acknowledged anything, now, without reserve, but he wanted to talk about Daisy.
14 The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART 15 Her manners were attaching, and soon banished his reserve.