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  • He'd elected to keep the dragon in the net, because it was easier to work with the dragon constrained, but the dragon didn't like it.†   (source)
  • She was perfectly composed but there was something constrained in her manner, though I couldn't quite put my finger on it.†   (source)
  • The constrained wind had built itself up to mini-cyclone intensity and could not be constrained.†   (source)
  • Even he was constrained in his financial demands by the conceit that one good lineman was no different from any other.†   (source)
  • It was not easy to know who was more constrained, the doctor with his chaste touch or the patient in the silk chemise with her virgin's modesty, but neither one looked the other in the eye; instead, he asked questions in an impersonal voice and she responded in a tremulous voice, both of them very conscious of the man sitting in the shadows.†   (source)
  • Outer circumstances can constrain us.†   (source)
  • This may tell us, at least in part, why she no longer felt constrained to silence, but it does not tell us why she chose to talk.†   (source)
  • Crossing the Black area of Stamps which in childhood's narrow measure seemed a whole world, we were obliged by custom to stop and speak to every person we met, and Bailey felt constrained to spend a few minutes playing with each friend.†   (source)
  • And Farmer said, "I understand you're constrained.†   (source)
  • Your philosophy does not constrain me, elf!†   (source)
  • Vivaldo and Dick Lincoln acknowledged each other with brief, constrained nods.†   (source)
  • Although the executive of the ANC did not allow white members, MK was not thus constrained.†   (source)
  • The names of the entities that have power to constrain us change with time.†   (source)
  • In the air, away from real life, he felt free, but on the ground, when he talked to Guitar just before he left, the wings of all those other people's nightmares flapped in his face and constrained him.†   (source)
  • The other side of the vise was a regimen of draconian "thought control" laws that constrained all civilians.†   (source)
  • They smacked the gravel from their clothing and walked in constrained silence to the entrance of the orderly room.†   (source)
  • Tereza could feel orgasm advancing from afar, and shouted No, no, no! to resist it, but resisted, constrained, deprived of an outlet, the ecstasy lingered all the longer in her body, flowing through her veins like a shot of morphine.†   (source)
  • But I said also (for the truth constrained me), Yet I have been seeking Tash all my days.†   (source)
  • The small crowd's reaction was now somewhat more audible, definitely less constrained.†   (source)
  • This, following a social calendar here in this beloved city that I begged John to constrain.†   (source)
  • I hate speeches [he continued], messages, addresses, proclamations and such affected, constrained things.†   (source)
  • Since the return of the king, brighter hues had crept back to most wardrobes, but long habit still constrained the choices of most of us.†   (source)
  • Our laws constrain him, but he would sooner have my brother follow him, I know it.†   (source)
  • The English-speaking peoples shrugged that off, as they have all atteinpts to constrain their language sense.†   (source)
  • Never in former days would any high lord of this land have constrained a man to abandon such a quest as mine.†   (source)
  • The bonds that constrained her held an odd fascination for him.†   (source)
  • "We are constrained from assisting in military developments absent political approval," Athelkau commed.†   (source)
  • Which is why for years I was bowed to the desk like some monk bowed over his prie-dieu, some dutiful contemplative pivoting his understanding in an attempt to bear his portion of the weight of the world, knowing himself incapable of heroic virtue or redemptive effect, but constrained by his obedience to his rule to repeat the effort and the posture.†   (source)
  • Abruptly then, my primary and nagging concern—where, in what precise room, upon what bed or divan in these constrained and puritanical surroundings would Leslie and I fulfill our glorious compact?†   (source)
  • VLADIMIR: All I know is that the hours are long, under these conditions, and constrain us to beguile them with proceedings which –how shall I say– whichmay at first sight seem reasonable, until they become a habit.†   (source)
  • He leans over and kisses her cheek impulsively-then turning back adds with a constrained air.†   (source)
  • She was thinking to herself, Mr. MacLain must be up in years, and they said he never did feel constrained to live in Morgana like other people and just visited Mrs. MacLain a little now and then.†   (source)
  • Chiron had told me long ago: Immortals are constrained by ancient rules.†   (source)
  • The power of Frey could constrain Fenris just as it constrained the extremes of fire and ice.†   (source)
  • General Peckem was frequently constrained.†   (source)
  • The power of Frey could constrain Fenris just as it constrained the extremes of fire and ice.†   (source)
  • Alas, the truth constrains me.†   (source)
  • Constrained by hard-learned manners I couldn't look behind me, but to my left and right the proud graduating class of 1940 had dropped their heads.†   (source)
  • There was a lot of drinking going on at my house, on Xandra's end anyway, a lot of slammed doors ("Well, if it wasn't me, it had to be you," I heard her yelling); and without Boris there (they were both more constrained with Boris in the house) it was harder.†   (source)
  • Their friendship had become vague and even constrained in recent years, but it was still an old habit, and to break it now in order to become strangers on intimate terms required a clarity of purpose which had temporarily deserted them.†   (source)
  • Gaea turned into loose white sand, but Jason summoned a squadron of venti who churned around her, constraining her in a cocoon of wind.†   (source)
  • Before the ancient language left Eragon's mouth, he became aware of a curious sensation as the weight constraining his legs lessened at a steady rate.†   (source)
  • How long, I wonder, has he been constrained to come often to his glass for inspection and instruction, and the Orthanc-stone so bent towards Barad-dur that, if any save a will of adamant now looks into it, it will bear his mind and sight swiftly thither?†   (source)
  • Now that they could no longer scorn him, now that they were constrained to respect him, they gave him a wide berth.†   (source)
  • Then, overcome with pity and constrained by his faith to love the life in all creatures great and small, Kevin stayed immobile for hours and days and nights and weeks, holding out his hand until the eggs hatched and the fledglings grew wings, true to life if subversive of common sense, at the intersection of natural process and the glimpsed ideal, at one and the same time a signpost and a reminder.†   (source)
  • 'I've got it all worked out,' Dobbs whispered, gripping the side of Orr's cot with white-knuckled hands to constrain them from waving.†   (source)
  • Durrfeld has unbent so naturally that he even feels constrained to utter a vague apology; he should not allow the British and the Dutch to agitate him so, he says to the Professor in a mild voice, forgive the outburst, but surely their monopolistic practices and manipulations of the supply of a natural product like rubber, which all the world should receive equitably, was an abomination.†   (source)
  • Even if she had decided to reveal either to Nathan or me the gruesome minutiae of her twenty months at Auschwitz, I might be constrained to draw down the veil, for, as George Steiner remarks, it is not clear "that those who were not themselves fully involved should touch upon these agonies unscathed."†   (source)
  • It is perhaps a reflection on the severe morality of that period that despite Yetta's relatively tolerant attitude toward sex, Sophie and Nathan felt constrained to live technically apart—separated by a mere few yards of linoleum-covered hallway—rather than moving in together into either one of their commodious rooms, where they would no longer have to enact their formal charade of devoted companions lacking any carnal interests.†   (source)
  • Grimm wheeled on, thinking swiftly, logically, with a kind of fierce and constrained joy.†   (source)
  • Near him, looking constrained, almost bashful, was old M. Perez, my mother's special friend.†   (source)
  • He had grown taller and his erect bearing and the constrained dignity of his face had disappeared.†   (source)
  • Dona Clara, who was generally so adequate, seemed constrained for once.†   (source)
  • Humor is always gallows-humor, and it is on the gallows you are now constrained to learn it.†   (source)
  • Turning to his constrained and apologetic son abruptly, he said: "How much is the bill?†   (source)
  • It was a task of some difficulty, and ever since, despite my own enfeeblement, I have felt constrained to perform it myself.†   (source)
  • A painful duty constrains me.†   (source)
  • Successful, however, as the system proved itself in practice, there was something so distasteful in the last rites as now performed that the Prefect felt constrained to forbid relations of the deceased being present at the actual interment.†   (source)
  • I remember that Lowell had a long knitted purse, constrained by two rings; and that a sixpence always slipped out of the slit.†   (source)
  • 'It was a boat-house originally,' he said, his voice constrained again, difficult, the voice of someone who is uncomfortable about his subject.†   (source)
  • "Yes?" she asked in constrained surprise, and turning to David's father, "Will you be so late, Albert?"†   (source)
  • He was nervous and constrained: the other boys knew one another intimately—they lived on, or in the neighborhood of, Montgomery Avenue, which was the most fashionable street in town.†   (source)
  • It was wrong to say: "This I understand, but that I cannot accept"; we must go straight to the heart of that which is unacceptable, precisely because it is thus that we are constrained to make our choice.†   (source)
  • Those three and a half hours of extra leisure were so far from being a source of happiness, that people felt constrained to take a holiday from them.†   (source)
  • And in deference to this scruple he is constrained to admit that, though the chief source of distress, the deepest as well as the most widespread, was separation-and it is his duty to say more about it as it existed in the later stages of the plague-it cannot be denied that even this distress was coming to lose something of its poignancy.†   (source)
  • He was desperately afraid of people in crowds: at class meetings, or smokers, or at any public gathering, he was nervous and constrained until he began to talk to them, and got them under him.†   (source)
  • She was hardly less pretty than Maria, even though not so blooming; and she was more constrained, and not so richly endowed in the little arts of making love.†   (source)
  • His face, constrained to impassivity by the binding strap, infuriated Baby.†   (source)
  • But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.†   (source)
  • Her sombre violence constrained him: she seemed the embodied instrument of fate.†   (source)
  • Roberts took it and shook it constrainedly.†   (source)
  • Tonight, when we met, she was somewhat constrained, and bore all the signs of an internal struggle.†   (source)
  • "That fellow left—rather abruptly," said Shefford, constrainedly.†   (source)
  • If you go on, I Shall feel myself constrained to cuff your face!†   (source)
  • When he was gone I turned immediately to Jordan — constrained to assure her of my surprise.†   (source)
  • The photographer came out and gave a constrained, apologetic laugh.†   (source)
  • I've heard his side of the story," said Helen, constrainedly.†   (source)
  • "He owns considerable property hereabouts," replied Laramie, constrainedly.†   (source)
  • If you wish, I'll see Madame Olenska," he said in a constrained voice.†   (source)
  • A constrained silence was maintained around the camp-fire for a while.†   (source)
  • The intent, it appeared, was to keep the mood free of any constraining solemnity.†   (source)
  • CYRANO: And if these lords hold not their tongue Shall feel constrained to make them taste my cane!†   (source)
  • "I should—think so," replied Shefford, constrainedly.†   (source)
  • The God of Israel help him who, at the end of life, is constrained to acknowledge so much!†   (source)
  • A will, most unlike her own, constrained her to do its grotesque and fantastic bidding.†   (source)
  • At length Darcy spoke, and in a constrained manner said, "Mr.†   (source)
  • He took her hand, and looked at her half-sadly, half with a constrained smile.†   (source)
  • But I constrain no man to converse or to feed with him.†   (source)
  • I describe everything exactly as it took place, constraining my mind not to wander from the task.†   (source)
  • There was no home, no help for the erring; even those who pitied were constrained to hardness.†   (source)
  • The "How d'ye do's" were quiet and constrained on each side.†   (source)
  • For the lama, constrained by his Rule, took not the faintest notice of her.†   (source)
  • We are not even constrained by our word of honor.†   (source)
  • Gabriel sheared on, constrained and sad.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Rouncewell is constrained to admit that he is in the house.†   (source)
  • "Why, are you all afraid of me?" he asked, with a constrained smile.†   (source)
  • "But you do—you do make it harder to me," said Bulstrode constrained into a genuine, pleading cry.†   (source)
  • Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed.†   (source)
  • This pleased her, yet his presence made her feel constrained and oppressed.†   (source)
  • 'Won't you?' said he, constrained by the pain of his cheek to put his hand there.†   (source)
  • "What is the matter?" said Madame de Villefort in a harsh and constrained tone.†   (source)
  • Their intercourse is not upon a footing of equality, but it is not constrained.†   (source)
  • One of his anxieties consisted in being constrained to think.†   (source)
  • Maybe they are right," he said with a constrained smile.†   (source)
  • The majority do not need to constrain him—they convince him.†   (source)
  • Tyranny constrains the writer to conditions of diameter which are augmentations of force.†   (source)
  • "Oh, will I?" she asked, constrainedly.†   (source)
  • In vague sacrificial or sacramental acts alone his will seemed drawn to go forth to encounter reality; and it was partly the absence of an appointed rite which had always constrained him to inaction whether he had allowed silence to cover his anger or pride or had suffered only an embrace he longed to give.†   (source)
  • Science will find itself philosophically constrained once again to grant earth all the honors that Church dogma wished to preserve for it.†   (source)
  • I resign, the evening seemed to say, as it paled and faded above the battlements and prominences, moulded, pointed, of hotel, flat, and block of shops, I fade, she was beginning, I disappear, but London would have none of it, and rushed her bayonets into the sky, pinioned her, constrained her to partnership in her revelry.†   (source)
  • They talked a little longer, but constrainedly, for when the musician found that Jude was a poor man his manner changed from what it had been while Jude's appearance and address deceived him as to his position and pursuits.†   (source)
  • He had failed in business in a licensed house in the city because his financial condition had constrained him to tie himself to second-class distillers and brewers.†   (source)
  • Presently the parents came out, and then Mrs. Griffiths' face, if still set and constrained, was somehow a little different, less savage perhaps, more hopelessly resigned.†   (source)
  • She ate her food in the deliberate, constrained way, almost as if she recoiled a little from doing anything so publicly, that he knew so well.†   (source)
  • Dim, flattened, constrained by their confinement, they had never appealed to her as now, when they wandered in the still air with a stark quality like that of nudity.†   (source)
  • He wanted to thank her for having been to see his mother, but under the ancestress's malicious eye he felt himself tongue-tied and constrained.†   (source)
  • He told me "yes" by a constrained gesture; and when I had bidden him enter, he did not obey me without a searching backward glance into the darkness of the square.†   (source)
  • The fact that the Mexican crept on very slowly and made absolutely no sound had the effect of constraining those behind him to proceed as stealthily.†   (source)
  • The trial's been artificially constrained inside a tiny circle, and it has to be continuously spun round within it.†   (source)
  • And he, in turn, when not too constrained by the memory of what Gilbert Griffiths had said to him, was inclined to think of them—certain girls in particular—with thoughts that bordered on the sensual.†   (source)
  • "Why, over what drove you out here—and gave me a lucky chance at you," replied Kells, with a constrained laugh.†   (source)
  • The dairy-house, so humble, so insignificant, so purely to him a place of constrained sojourn that he had never hitherto deemed it of sufficient importance to be reconnoitred as an object of any quality whatever in the landscape; what was it now?†   (source)
  • Constrained silence.†   (source)
  • The preparations for the meal went on, somewhat constrainedly on the part of Bill and Halloway, and presently were ended.†   (source)
  • And strangely, considering his first approaches toward Roberta, the thought was without lust, just the desire to constrain and fondle a perfect object.†   (source)
  • Naphta did not look up from his own constrained pose, but he could not refrain from whispering a cutting remark in Settembrini's direction: "I'm glad to see you have feelings not just for freedom and progress, but for serious matters as well."†   (source)
  • Philosophically constrained?†   (source)
  • Shefford laughed constrainedly.†   (source)
  • For now, in addition to her own troubled conclusions in regard to Clyde, there had sprung up over night the dark and constraining fear that even this might not now be possible, for the present at least.†   (source)
  • Yesterday, 27 March 19—, the insult and slander were confirmed orally by Herr Leo von Asarapetian, a direct witness to said conversation, during the course of which those insulting words and insinuations were uttered; thereupon Herr Stanislaw von Zutawski felt constrained to apply without delay to the undersigned and authorize them to begin proceedings as prescribed by the law of honor against Herr Kasimir Japoll.†   (source)
  • One can only say that, had there not been a Pieter Peeperkorn, the others would have felt much more constrained to take sides, when, for example, Leo Naphta defended the fundamental, archrevolutionary nature of the Church against the teachings of Herr Settembrini, who asserted that her sole historical purpose had been to serve as the patron of the dark forces of inertia and reaction and then went on to claim that the affirmation of life and a future open to revolution and renewal was…†   (source)
  • I went circuitously to Miss Havisham's by all the back ways, and rang at the bell constrainedly, on account of the stiff long fingers of my gloves.†   (source)
  • In juxtaposition to it, and under its immediate control, is the representative of the executive power, whose duty it is to constrain the refractory to submit by superior force.†   (source)
  • But, wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.†   (source)
  • David, though he regarded his treasure with longing eyes, was constrained to answer, especially as the venerable father took a part in the interrogatories, with an interest too imposing to be denied.†   (source)
  • The dinner, the wine, the decoration of the table were all very good; but it was all like what Darya Alexandrovna had seen at formal dinners and balls which of late years had become quite unfamiliar to her; it all had the same impersonal and constrained character, and so on an ordinary day and in a little circle of friends it made a disagreeable impression on her.†   (source)
  • Even Swedenborg, whose theory of the universe is based on affection, and who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception : " There are also angels who do not live consociated, but separate, house and house; these dwell in the midst of heaven, because they are the best of angels."†   (source)
  • I felt my heels and coat-laps peculiar subjects of assault; and parrying off the larger combatants as effectually as I could with the poker, I was constrained to demand, aloud, assistance from some of the household in re-establishing peace.†   (source)
  • And there was even at the bottom, "She will be constrained thereto by every form of law, and notably by a writ of distraint on her furniture and effects."†   (source)
  • You see I am not constrained or forced.†   (source)
  • If the word "fun" had been "torture," it could not have been uttered with a more constrained and restless countenance than was Boldwood's then.†   (source)
  • She was tranquil, yet her tranquillity was evidently constrained; and as her confusion had before been adduced as a proof of her guilt, she worked up her mind to an appearance of courage.†   (source)
  • Hence, it came about, that when necessity constrained him to speak, his tongue was torpid, awkward, and like a door whose hinges have grown rusty.†   (source)
  • In short, I was not a favourite there with anybody, not even with myself; for those who did like me could not show it, and those who did not, showed it so plainly that I had a sensitive consciousness of always appearing constrained, boorish, and dull.†   (source)
  • If they would serve their fellowmen, let them do it by making manifest the power and reality of conscience, in constraining them to penitential self-abasement!†   (source)
  • Mme. Bonacieux looked at the young man, restrained for a minute by a last hesitation; but there was such an ardor in his eyes, such persuasion in his voice, that she felt herself constrained to confide in him.†   (source)
  • Upon my entrance, Usher arose from a sofa on which he had been lying at full length, and greeted me with a vivacious warmth which had much in it, I at first thought, of an overdone cordiality—of the constrained effort of the ennuye; man of the world.†   (source)
  • She was so constrained, and yet so careless; so reserved, and yet so watchful; so cold and proud, and yet so sensitively ashamed of her husband's braggart humility — from which she shrunk as if every example of it were a cut or a blow; that it was quite a new sensation to observe her.†   (source)
  • Middleton, jealous of his own consideration no less than of the authority of his government, suspected some undue influence on the part of the agents of the Canadas; and, as he was determined to maintain the authority of which he was the representative, he felt himself constrained to manifest a hauteur, that he was far from feeling.†   (source)
  • Donald had no wish to enter into conversation with his former friend on their present constrained terms; neither would he pass him in scowling silence.†   (source)
  • After five minutes of irksome, constrained conversation, they heard the sound of slippered feet rapidly approaching.†   (source)
  • Oh, if so, punish me as you will; but do not—do not speak to me in tones and manner so formal and constrained.†   (source)
  • For with little external to constrain us, the innermost necessities in our being, these still drive us on.†   (source)
  • I never underwent so much, both in body and mind, in the course of a walk with young people as from these unnaturally constrained children when they paid me the compliment of being natural.†   (source)
  • But I am constrained to take a view of the case which gives the preponderance to Mr. Farebrother's claims.†   (source)
  • 'I must apologise for hindering you in your scientific pursuits,' he began, seating himself on a chair in the window, and leaning with both hands on a handsome walking-stick with an ivory knob (he usually walked without a stick), 'but I am constrained to beg you to spare me five minutes of your time …. no more.'†   (source)
  • But every man was constrained by so much sincerity to the like plain dealing and what love of nature, what poetry, what symbol of truth he had, he did certainly show him.†   (source)
  • He had vanity, which strongly inclined him in the first place to think she did love him, though she might not know it herself; and which, secondly, when constrained at last to admit that she did know her own present feelings, convinced him that he should be able in time to make those feelings what he wished.†   (source)
  • Mrs Clennam, who responded with a constrained grace to Mrs Finching's good nature in being there at all, though her visit (before Arthur's unexpected arrival) was undoubtedly an act of pure good nature and no self-gratification, intimated that all the house was open to her.†   (source)
  • Still I am constrained to confess that hitherto we have been wonderfully favoured, and that for some reason unknown to myself we have accomplished our journey under singularly favourable conditions of temperature.†   (source)
  • A constrained silence lasted for a couple of minutes, and then, as might be expected, some scene-shifting took place.†   (source)
  • Yet the sense of our lonely and forsaken condition weighed heavily upon me as I returned to my family, constraining myself to say with a smile, 'Courage, dear ones!†   (source)
  • I could see that she was really looking at things and let nothing escape her, and as I watched her, an uncomfortable feeling that she had been a little touched by love of the deft, ready, and handsome Dick, and that she had been constrained to follow us because of it, faded out of my mind; since if it had been so, she surely could not have been so excitedly pleased, even with the beautiful scenes we were passing through.†   (source)
  • But her father had expected this, and he was not constrained to set down her intellectual limitations as a tourist to sentimental depression; she had completely divested herself of the characteristics of a victim, and during the whole time that they were abroad she never uttered an audible sigh.†   (source)
  • I would force myself on thee and constrain it, And it seems thou repellest my kiss: And yet 'tis thou, so good, so kind to see!†   (source)
  • And she hurried again into the road, and again constrained herself to walk regularly and composedly forward.†   (source)
  • Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled.†   (source)
  • On this groundwork he raises for himself the structure of his own thoughts; nor is he led to proceed in this manner by choice so much as he is constrained by the inflexible law of his condition.†   (source)
  • I shuddered; but I was constrained to listen, while he talked of his intention to give me a home of my own, and to make a lady of me.†   (source)
  • At which kind of speech the Captain would laugh in rather an absurd constrained manner, and turn off the conversation, like a consummate man of the world, to some topic of general interest, such as the Opera, the Prince's last ball at Carlton House, or the weather—that blessing to society.†   (source)
  • But one thing remains for you to do: to think of her so intently that she is constrained to think of you.†   (source)
  • What was better, nearly every one was of the same rank as himself, so that he need not feel in the least constrained.†   (source)
  • He remembered Rodolphe's attentions, his sudden, disappearance, his constrained air when they had met two or three times since.†   (source)
  • Expecting a second harvest, we were constrained to prepare the field for sowing again, and immediately therefore commenced mowing down the stubble.†   (source)
  • It permits or constrains the formation of new acquaintances, and the reception of new influences that prove of the first importance to the next years; and the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden flower, with no room for its roots and too much sunshine for its head, by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener, is made the banyan[144] of the forest, yielding shade and fruit to wide neighborhoods of men.†   (source)
  • If this kind of government appears to me to be useful and rational, I am nevertheless constrained to admit that it is expensive.†   (source)
  • The fetid closeness of the air, and a famishing diet, united perhaps to some fears of ultimate retribution, had constrained them to surrender at discretion.†   (source)
  • Upon which the bishop had been constrained to recite to him the ordinance of Legate Odo, which excepts certain great dames, ~aliquoe magnates mulieres, quoe sine scandalo vitari non possunt~.†   (source)
  • The fright I had undergone, the constrained posture, and the dampness of the ground, made me ill for several days.†   (source)
  • "Forgive me, Phoebe!" said the daguerreotypist, holding out his hand, to which the girl was constrained to yield her own.†   (source)
  • Such another small basin of thin gruel as his own was all that he could, with thorough self-approbation, recommend; though he might constrain himself, while the ladies were comfortably clearing the nicer things, to say: "Mrs.†   (source)
  • "Thou canst not shake me by thy petty malice," answered Front-de-Boeuf, with a ghastly and constrained laugh.†   (source)
  • He could not see her face at church, for she had changed her seat, and when he came up to her to shake hands, her manner was doubtful and constrained.†   (source)
  • She was so little equal to Rebecca's puddings and Rebecca's hashes, brought to table, as they all were, with such accompaniments of half-cleaned plates, and not half-cleaned knives and forks, that she was very often constrained to defer her heartiest meal till she could send her brothers in the evening for biscuits and buns.†   (source)
  • She met his eyes for an instant, but was immediately constrained to give all her attention to the scene now going forward.†   (source)
  • But he had to enter the Casterbridge Bank that day for reasons which had never before sent him there—and to sit a long time in the partners' room with a constrained bearing.†   (source)
  • The Tower stood up so high, and seemed so vast, resting apparently upon foundations so sure, that he was constrained to acknowledge its strength.†   (source)
  • …did it seem that her rigid nose could yield to any relaxing influence, yet her manner of sitting, smoothing her uncomfortable, not to say, gritty mittens (they were constructed of a cool fabric like a meat-safe), or of ambling to unknown places of destination with her foot in her cotton stirrup, was so perfectly serene, that most observers would have been constrained to suppose her a dove, embodied by some freak of nature, in the earthly tabernacle of a bird of the hook-beaked order.†   (source)
  • And besides, should he hesitate to do her this service, she would know well enough how to constrain him to it by re-waking, in a single moment, their lost love.†   (source)
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