1 She was startled by the return of her father, startled by a sudden conviction that in this flaxen boy she had found the gray reticent judge who was divine love, perfect under-standing.
2 She was quick at understanding the grandmothers who spoke no English, and the most reticent and distrustful of them would tell her their story without realizing they were doing so.
3 Extracting a huge tome in which some by no means reticent mythological illustrations were contained, he set himself to examine these pictures.
4 In contrast to his former reticent taciturnity Prince Andrew now seemed excited.
5 He immediately began to talk to Drummle: not at all deterred by his replying in his heavy reticent way, but apparently led on by it to screw discourse out of him.
6 Walloping, tail lashing, the reticence of nature was undone, and the barriers which should divide Man the Master from the Brute were dissolved.
7 She liked the inwardness of the remnant of forest, the unspeaking reticence of the old trees.
8 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 9 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 10 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 11 This was the answer to Ashley's reticence, to his strange conduct.
12 Leave us some dignity, some reticence to remember out of our marriage.
13 The Smails did not "believe in all this nonsense" about privacy and reticence.
14 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 15 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