Newton turned his head, and recognised the governor of Guadaloupe, who had expressed such sympathy at his shipwreck, and had sent him away in the cartel instead of detaining him as a prisoner.
Passing around a jam he could not press through, Ben felt a detaining hand upon his arm, and turning, he was face to face with Grannis.
His eyes narrowed, as when, before starting, he had questioned the cowboy Grannis; then of a sudden he rose and laid a detaining hand upon the worker's shoulder.
But one of the women was already at his side, her detaining hand upon his sleeve.
But I am detaining my reader too long in the recording of my juvenile days.
They afterwards carried off two women whom they met; and detaining them on board during two days, so ill-treated them, that one expired soon after they had put them on shore.
She laid the little thing down again, freed her neck from the drowsy, detaining arms, and covered the small body up out of her sight.
She looked at him questioningly, and as if in answer he laid his hand upon her shoulder, detaining her.
But, as he made as if he would rise, something impelled her to lay a detaining hand upon his arm.
Breathlessly she answered him; the words seemed to leap from her of their own accord, and surely it was hardly of her own volition that she followed and held his arm, detaining him.
Stay a moment," exclaimed Lilburn in an undertone, and laying a detaining hand upon Travilla's arm, but with his gaze intently fixed upon the older gamester.
The wrong done by the Governor to the whole colony in detaining the foresaid letters to his Majesty did exceedingly perplex them, whereby they were made sensible of the condition of the present government," wrote Samuel Mathews.
The chief cause was the detaining of the letters to his Majesty," replied Mr. Menefie.
She started toward the library, but the detective put out a detaining hand.
He was flying across the bridge, with something under his arm, when Norman laid a detaining hand on his collar, making a sign at the same time to Cheviot to leave them.
May, putting his hand on her shoulder, in a gentle, detaining manner, that sent a thrill of trembling through her frame, though she did not otherwise move.
A gaoler is also punishable for detaining the corpse of a prisoner as security for debt.
The Flemings were then the chief manufacturers of woollen and other cloths, and Henry retaliated by detaining all their manufactured goods then in England, and by prohibiting all commerce between the two countries.
The Kei Islanders believe that the spirits of their forefathers, angry at not receiving food, make people sick by detaining their souls.
Accordingly he seeks to regain possession of it by digging up the earth; but if he fails to recover it, he sends a wise woman to the spot to win back his soul from the fairies who are detaining it.
M35 Attempts to rescue the lost soul from the spirits of the dead who are detaining it.
Feeling the necessity ofdetaining her until my comrades should have time to surround the camp, I said: `The white-feather hunts far from his lands.
Then accusing him of hating Roberts, merely because he had been prevented from breaking the articles by detaining him, he left the spot.
The pirate, detaining some of Mackra's men, set sail for the Indies.
As soon almost as he could get to them, the Buccaneers advanced with pistols and cutlasses, and without firing fell on them and cut many to pieces before they could mount, but let the rest go, detaining their horses.
They found an English chaplain on board, and wanted him to go with them to make punch and say prayers, but as he refused they let him go, detaining nothing of the property of the church but three prayer-books and a corkscrew.
I had possibly some confused idea of detainingher until she had told me more.
Commiserating their position, as foreigners in a strange land, and knowing no reason for detaining them, the commander signalled for a shore boat, and the three men left the vessel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "detaining" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
