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Example sentences for "detaining hand"

  • Miss Marr," and Jimmy put out a detaining hand, as Miss Marr at that moment was passing, and in three minutes more his request was made and granted.

  • Hope waited, putting a detaining hand at the same time upon Miss Marr, who made a movement to step back into her parlor.

  • Miss Marr," and Hope put a detaining hand on Miss Marr's arm.

  • He half rose from his chair as he spoke, but Gretel put out a detaining hand.

  • Hepworth laid a detaining hand on the artist's arm.

  • He was about to lift the next tray, when Dita laid a detaining hand on his arm.

  • Abool-Bukr had broken away from her kind, detaining hand, and gone back to the intrigues of the Palace.

  • So even Abool-Bukr, forsaking drunkenness as well as that kind, detaining hand, clung to his kinsfolk bravely, behaving in all ways as a newly married young prince should who looked toward filling the throne itself at some future time.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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