Strange to say, the Muscovite government took no energetic means to arrest the fugitives, and detain them in Russia.
I doubt if the fear of the Circassians would have been able to detain us longer in such a spot.
Convinced that he meant to detain him, the youth produced his pistol and shot his entertainer dead; then rushing to the stables, saddled up, and made his way to the west.
My purpose was to procure another pair on my arrival--aye, and I would do so before breaking fast, had not circumstances which I will not detain you by relating put this for the moment out of the question.
Permit me to detain your grace one moment," said the Margrave of Brandenborg, who had again vaulted into his saddle, and now rode hastily up to the king, with his head uncovered.
She continued to stand in the same place, without appearing to notice his departure, and without vouchsafing an additional word of explanation; then, before Anna could find a cry to detain her, she too turned and went out.
There was nothing to detain them at Malta, and Mr. Ferrars, who arranged everything, thought the calm of a sea-voyage would be better for them all than the bustle and fatigue of a land journey.
This ceremony did not detain us longer than half an hour; when we launched into a larger space of open water than we had seen since the 9th of the month.
Gentlemen, on an occasion like this, I ought not to detain you longer.
Gentlemen, I will no longer detain you than to propose a toast:-- The City of New York; herself the noblest eulogy on the Union of the States.
Gentlemen, upon this point I shall detain you with no further remarks.
Fellow-citizens, I will detain you no longer by this faint and feeble tribute to the memory of the illustrious dead.
Having done this, and Rollo not returning, on the contrary seeming to have found more than peach trees to detain him, for the sound of hammer was heard at intervals, the old woman came and stood by Wych Hazel again.
Don't let me detain you, sir,' she said, putting herself in quick motion across the moss.
Yet when his call to Ayr came to him, the people of the parish of Kirkcudbright never offered to detain him, so his transportation to Ayr was the more easy.
The soft accent of the beautiful Leonora will certainly detain him one day more, and her gracious smile will bereave him of rest for months to come.
Yes, you know it to be the most ardent wish of my soul to leave England; you know that I cannot enjoy a moment's peace of mind whilst I am here; yet in this racking suspense it is your pleasure to detain me.
Let nothing detain you from Richmond this evening; but come not at all--come no more, unless to reassure my trembling heart, and to convince me that love and Olivia have banished every other image.
I beg I may not detain your majesty--I see I am late," said Lord Oldborough.
I thank you, Mr. Dean, I must detain you a moment to speak to you on business.
What business ought to detain a man a moment from the woman he loves?
Long since would I have been with you, all that my soul holds dear, could I have escaped from these tyrants, these medical despots, who detain me by absolute force, and watch over me with unrelenting vigilance.
My fortune, therefore, will not detain me in England, and, as I said before, my greatest wish is to rejoin my regiment.
If, on the other hand, they should detain him in captivity, the force requisite to guard so precious a hostage would seriously cripple the operations of the conquerors.
You must not say that, for I had expected some surprise at the view from this particular point," she answered, evidently wishing todetain him on the door step.
I will however detain you while I relate a single incident, because it was the first of which I was a witness.
The court at Troy will probably detain me the whole of this week, which is three days longer than I expected.
I fix the 24th of October for my return; if any very extraordinary thing should detain me, you shall be advised of it seasonably.
If there are three subs for each party exclusive of those from your own regiment, you can detainthe whole of the subs of other brigades or not, as you like.
This change will produce no inconvenience at all, and is better than to detain the boy till Mrs. Paterson returns.
No trifling concerns should command me a moment; but business of importance, and some embarrassments too serious to be laughed out of the way, will, I fear, detain me this month.
My great love for the fine arts, especially sculpture, may detain me a week in Philadelphia.
I am apprehensive that it will detain me here nearly the whole of this week.
My business in court will detain me till Saturday of this week, when I propose to take passage in sloop.
You may judge with what reluctance I engaged in a business which will detain me so long from all that is dear and lovely.
The business I have undertaken here will, contrary to all expectation, detain me till Saturday night.
I know I must apologize for so disturbing you, but in truth I will not detain you five minutes.
The archdeacon's compliments, and he wouldn't detain her two minutes.
She had contrived to detain him, to get him near to her sofa, and at last to make him seat himself on a chair close to her beautiful arm.
There is no longer anything which need detain me here," he said to the Bishop, and he moved towards the door.
It need not detainan active mind beyond the necessary moment of enquiring by which road it may be most quickly left.
Then whydetain and question me, since you are so well informed?
Trooper Flee-the-Devil, detain that maiden, and bring her within the house; she may possess the information we desire.
I now think it likely that all troops will be ordered back from the valley except what they believe to be the minimum number to detain you.
I received no orders requiring me to detain Hampton.
I trust your father will not detain me the whole day to-morrow.
The cacique was gone with the rest of his family in the canoe, with a view of getting some seal, upon a trip which would detainhim from us three or four days.
Having explained the foregoing particulars, I hope I may flatter myself, there are few things in the following sheets which will not be readily understood by the greatest part of my readers; therefore I will not detain them any longer.
His business cannot detain him long, he will certainly return.
You are right as to my name, but quite as wrong if you fancy that you will detain me," said that plump and very self-satisfied gentleman, as he moved forward.
I'll not detain you from pleasanter company; good-bye; see you here when I come back, I suppose?
Besides, now that I know what was the emergency that called young Trafford up here, I have nothing to detain me.
I regret to detain you, sir," began Sir Brook, as he courteously raised his hat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "detain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
