So she changed her speech into a suggestion of remedies for palpitation; and curbed her impatience to speak out her indignation at the contemplated falsehood to Roger.
Now then for relief, Friends, of your patience kindly curbed so long.
Once before Drew had seen explosive anger curbed visibly by a man who knew the folly of losing control over his emotions.
Much better had he curbed his high desires, And hovered o'er his ill-extinguished fires.
Very sweet and simple, in spite of his own none too well curbed sarcasm.
Everybody wanted money, but this man's desire, he discerned, though great, was curbed and disciplined.
It is better for both of us that he should have curbed his anger and kept out of my reach, for I should have had much trouble with him.
On this Juno was frightened, so she curbed her stubborn will and sat down in silence.
He had watched with a beating heart the departure of the troops under Dunwoodie, and with difficulty had curbed his impatience until the obscurity of night should render his moving free from danger.
The others merely put in a question now and then, and the detectives curbed their impatience as best they might until Len Shi was safely lodged in Bow Street again.
Forbes curbedhis impatience sufficiently to permit of any one who happened to be in the interior answering the summons of the electric bell.
The little man, seeing the expression on the rector's face, curbed his excitement, and feared he had gone too far.
And he curbed his curiosity about Alison for the reason that he preferred to hear her story from another source.
The poetic impulse of imagination must becurbed by distinctness of expression, and its capricious tendency to combine must be limited by a strictly legitimate course of procedure.
From a load that oppressed their indolence, and not a rein that curbed their activity.
The government continued to buy through war purveyors, who had, indeed, been curbed a little, but only in exchange for other privileges.
By that time, also, the insufferable small official had been curbedto quite an extent.
The lamps at the entrance shone brightly, but even brighter was old Martin's face, as he curbed the spirited animals with a firm hand.
Freyer, with an iron hand, curbedthe rearing animals.
The radiant charioteer above curbed his impatient steeds and gazed down from his serene height upon the conflict, the torturing, silent conflict of suffering upon the bloody battlefield of the timorous earth.
Formerly you have beheld me only when curbed by the victorious power of my holy task.
Such pleasures need not to be curbed as though they were noisome.
Further, the sin of lust is curbed by marriage: for it is written (1 Cor.
Still," I again protested, "here are stone walls, and curbed and graded roads.
Mostyn remarked the note of curbed elation in the voice, and saw Buckton turn down the steps.
I haven't seen the article," Mostyn answered, in a tone of curbed irritation.
His sufferings were meant to be educational, and when they in some measure effected their purpose, God curbed the invader and granted some measure of deliverance.
Shemaiah the prophet, the first of the long series of noble men who curbed the violence of Jewish monarchs, points the lesson of invasion in plain, blunt words: 'Ye have forsaken Me.
They are only safe when they are curbed and bitted, and held well in.
He curbed himself "That's a bit of wonderful compliancy.
His idea of the cowardice of girls combined with his ideal of a waxwork sex to persuade him that though they are often (he had experienced it) wantonly desperate in their acts, their tongues are curbed by rosy prudency.
Their eyes met; both women were white to the lips, but it was curbed passion in the one, and deadly fear in the other; for what the Dowager's words left unsaid her eyes most eloquently conveyed.
He curbed himself; he smiled sardonically upon the pair; and in that moment he swore that be the cost what it might, he would frustrate the union of those two.
The earldom of Gloucester curbed Britain along the lower Severn.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curbed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: arrested; constrained; continent; guarded; inhibited; restrained; retarded; silent; temperate
