1 Walloping, tail lashing, the reticence of nature was undone, and the barriers which should divide Man the Master from the Brute were dissolved.
2 She liked the inwardness of the remnant of forest, the unspeaking reticence of the old trees.
3 Her normal manner among the heathfolk had that reticence which results from the consciousness of superior communicative power.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country 4 There was a little more reticence now than formerly in Thomasin's manner towards her cousin.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 5 If in telling the story I seem to be somewhat vague in certain details, the public will readily understand that there is an excellent reason for my reticence.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN 6 This was the answer to Ashley's reticence, to his strange conduct.
7 Leave us some dignity, some reticence to remember out of our marriage.
8 The Smails did not "believe in all this nonsense" about privacy and reticence.
9 As to Athos, faithful to his system of reticence, he contented himself with interrogating d'Artagnan by a look.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 9 D'ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF 10 de Treville--a thing which, considering the habitual reticence of the worthy Musketeer, had very much astonished his captain.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 11 The queen might be as much injured by too much reticence as by too much confidence; and--let us admit it--the involuntary sentiment which she felt for her young protector decided her to speak.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 18 LOVER AND HUSBAND 12 And the mere sight of the torment, with his fishy eyes and mouth open, his sandy hair inquisitively on end, and his waistcoat heaving with windy arithmetic, made me vicious in my reticence.
13 Anything to equal the determined reticence of Mr. Jaggers under that roof I never saw elsewhere, even in him.
14 Nor did she know reticence: before any one she would disclose her mind, and no force could compel her to maintain silence when she desired to speak.
15 So you have noticed reticence.