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Too happy to be shy and reserved, she hung on her husband's arm and adored him openly with her eyes, with her smiles, her tears.

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 Meanings and Examples of RESERVED
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reserved
 a.  held in reserve; kept back or set aside; marked by self-restraint and reticence
Classic Sentence: (172 in 12 pages)
1  Too happy to be shy and reserved, she hung on her husband's arm and adored him openly with her eyes, with her smiles, her tears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  Mammy's smile at the front door was the smile reserved for quality folks, Pitty served him coffee laced with brandy and fluttered about him and Scarlett hung on his every utterance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  They were gentle, quiet spoken, reserved people and not given to even the amiable bickering that characterized most Atlanta families.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
4  She was frightened and yet stimulated by the reserved force of resolution which she felt within herself: she saw it was going to be easier, a great deal easier, than she had imagined.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
5  But Nettie Struther's frail envelope was now alive with hope and energy: whatever fate the future reserved for her, she would not be cast into the refuse-heap without a struggle.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
6  That institution is reserved for men like Kennicott who, after devoting fifty years to "putting aside a stake," incontinently invest the stake in spurious oil-stocks.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  But the placing of the cap-sheaf to all this blundering business was reserved for the scientific Frederick Cuvier, brother to the famous Baron.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
8  Some few hands are reserved called ship-keepers, whose province it is to work the vessel while the boats are pursuing the whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
9  She was a thin, hard-faced woman, very well-dressed, very reserved in manner.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
10  She laughed and bantered him a little, remembering too late that she should have been dignified and reserved.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XX
11  Edna had intended to be indifferent and as reserved as he when she met him; she had reached the determination by a laborious train of reasoning, incident to one of her despondent moods.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXVI
12  The white man seemed to take counsel from their customs, and, relinquishing his grasp of the rifle, he also remained silent and reserved.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
13  He had been fond of believing, from the uncommon forbearance of the savages, that he was reserved as a prisoner to be delivered to Montcalm.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
14  The young Mohican cast a glance at his father, but, maintaining his quiet and reserved mien, he continued silent.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
15  The men in the shadow were less reserved.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
Example Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
16  It was reserved for the wealthy, three-storey penthouses had wine cellars, saunas and jacuzzis; the only black residents were servants, in whose quarters windows had to be at least six feet off the ground.
17  It was agreed without further argument that the milk and the windfall apples should be reserved for the pigs alone.
18  They have no reservations about taking factory or manual jobs.
19  Workers and employees shared deep reservations about the wisdom of the government's plans for the industry.
20  Customers are advised to make seat reservations well in advance.
21  Although she appeared to acquiesce to her employer's suggestions, I could tell she had reservations about the changes he wanted made.
22  The new proposal would create a reserve pool of cash.
23  I'd like to reserve a table for three for eight o'clock.
24  I'd like to reserve a table for eight.
25  You must reserve your strength for the tennis final.
26  The company had to dip into a reserve fund to pay for all the new equipment.
27  His final reform was the fusion of regular and reserve forces.
28  Something is a knot when you reserve it,a scar when it's opened.
29  The bank had put $3.9 billion in reserve to cover such costs.
30  I learnt so much from him in an inroad I once, despite his reserve, had the daring to make on his confidence.