He could not endure the wearing of ornaments; the slightest constraint was insupportable to him.
This feeling was speedily chilled by the indifference and constraint with which she listened to what I said.
I have always longed to attach myself with all my heart to the duties of my state, and at this period I was too heart-sore not to feel some constraint in performing those which devolved on me.
For when he was invited to public entertainments, he would most times refuse to come, or if he were present at any, he put a constraint upon the company by his austerity and silence, which seemed to intimate his disapproval of what he saw.
But this was more by constraint than their own choice; for Terentius Culeo, then tribune of the people, to spite the nobility, spurred on the populace to order it to be done.
On this point, I agree, there has been progress, but it consists in putting a most unnatural constraint upon conscience.
These citizens wish their children to receive a religious education; it would, therefore, be unmitigated terrorism, tyrannical constraint of conscience, to force Christian parents to bring up their children in the spirit of unbelief.
One night, he noticed a certain constraint in the father's and daughter's manner, and Loewenberg was less cordial to him than usual.
Does it accord with a profession of humanity and freedom to put constraint on the consciences of fellow-citizens?
The effort imparted to his delivery an air of constraint and a sickening sweetness which were climaxed by the fearfully involved style in which his speech was clothed.
For the first time that evening there was a faint touch of constraint in his manner.
Always gloomy and constrained, the gloom and constraint deepened tenfold in the days following upon the rupture.
At Cranston Hall the chronic atmosphere of gloom and constraint in nowise tended to a clearance, and Time, so far from allaying General Dorrien's resentment towards his eldest son, rather tended to heighten it; as one or two incidents showed.
In this way it constrains us, but the constraint is not exerted upon us from without, but proceeds from our own decision and activity.
Yet it by no means lacks historical relations: often in the course of the centuries the subject has shaken off every constraint and sought a solution to life's problems in its own realm.
Only when he turned to Winnie, who was in the garden with them, did a shade of constraint appear in his demeanour.
The mornings on which they came were less cheerful than other mornings; a constraint showed itself in greetings and farewells.
I thought for some time that some tuneful domestic, whose taste for music was laid under constraint during the day, chose that silent hour to imitate the strains which he had caught up by the ear during his attendance in the drawing-room.
Indeed, the meal of this less distinguished party was much more mirthful than that in the higher circle, where there was an obvious air of constraint on the greater part of the assistants.
He began patting his dog, which had followed Ruth in-doors, and a moment ofconstraint fell upon the little party.
Lady Mary made a few conventional remarks to Ruth, which she answered, and Mrs. Alwynn also; but there was a constraint which every moment threatened a silence.
A sense ofconstraint between two people who understand and amuse each other is very galling.
So she received their very earnest congratulations with a constraint that chilled them.
Perhaps Hope Wayne understood the meaning of that mysterious constraint which now so often enveloped the Round Table.
This insupportable constraintis alone sufficient to disgust me with variety, for I cannot form an idea of a greater torment than being obliged to speak continually without time for recollection.
This union of divine constraint and human freedom is an everlasting mystery; but not the less is it a glorious fact.
Who can say but some such divine yet free constraint may be exercised in the life to come?
Between himself and Mariana a constraint had been growing, and he recalled suddenly the fact that their old warmth of intercourse had chilled into an indifferent reserve.
The sound was like wine in his blood, and constraint was shattered.
Algarcife often wondered where she spent the morning and afternoon hours, but the constraint between them had strengthened, and he did not ask her.
Both felt a constraint in alluding to it, and yet both felt the inevitableness of the final hour.
Now you see what a simple device it is and how ingenious; still it involves a certain amount of constraint for me, and an isolation hard to endure for Kondjé-Gul.
It is quite remarkable how Luther reduces the action of the secular power and the rights of the authorities to a judicial constraint to be exercised against evil-doers, or, as he says, to the task of a mere executioner.
In the sensible world, the spirit of man submits to constraint from without; in the moral world, it imposes constraint from within.
Both of these are worlds of constraint or necessity.
More than once during the long war, these wild armies were brought under the constraint of strict discipline by the powerful will of individuals, and each time great military successes were obtained; but this was not of any duration.
We are sometimes surprised to find in the theology, an undercurrent of deep-thinking speculations of elevated grandeur; but it is a kind of secret doctrine of souls depressed under the constraint of the cloister.
Let it be understood by the women that this is a friendly conference, and that no constraint will be used; for it is not customary with my masters and the very wise council to hang a man before they have caught him.
If she came expecting to receive applause, the silence and constraint that hung over the assembly must have stirred a fear that something terrible had happened, which would be increased by Peter's question.
You live by impulse, by habit, by example, by constraint of the outward necessities of your position.
True, he was 'bound in the spirit,' which may suggest that he was not so much going joyfully as impelled by a constraint felt to be irresistible.
She is and will be faithful to him; but when I see them together I notice in her face a certain constraint and humiliation.
I tried to ask, but the words seemed to come from her with such difficulty, there was such evident constraint and uneasiness, that I left off asking.
I told Aniela who it was that had written, and she, to show me that all ill-feeling and constraint had gone, began to tease me.
At the moment when I tried to make him believe that a ruined man ought to set his wife free, there was a certain constraint and trouble in his expression.
On his return, Mrs. Arnot's greeting was that of a mother; but there were traces of constraint in Laura's manner.
I shall say what is in my mind without any constraint whatever," said Mrs. Arnot.
