I understand from your letters what it is that detains you, but I am persuaded the difficulty will now be removed.
This state of matters detains Bucer here, so that he cannot move a step.
That which detains me at this time would be explained if I could only come to you.
Nevertheless, if there were any right and lawful means of escaping out of the hands of him who detains you, you should ask counsel from God, so that by his Spirit he might teach you to take advantage of it.
I forgot to say, that, if any thing detains you longer than Wednesday se'nnight, I beg you will not fail to write, or I shall be miserable.
Valentine starts to go, but Marcel detains her with the question, "Who art thou?
I cannot divest myself of a certain awe and fascination, as if of a supernatural appearance, which attracts and detains me about them; not even the Colosseum more.
It is not amusement that detains me--can you think I would stay for a ball, unless I expected to meet you there?
They have a great way to return, and a dreadful road--I am uneasy about them--do pray be so good to see what detains her carriage.
Haste then to Ilion, while the favouring night Detains these terrors, keeps that arm from fight.
Tell him that the gods are offended, and that I am angry above all the immortals, because with infuriated mind he detains Hector at the crooked barks, nor has released him: if perchance he will revere me, and restore Hector.
Menelaus holds the Old Man fast, and asks: What God detains me from my return?
Thirdly Proteus has seen Ulysses in an ocean isle with the nymph Calypso who detains him though eager to get away.
Circe would have sent him forward again, leaving intact his will-power; Calypso detains him lulled in the sensuous delights of her bower.
Neglect of the Gods--that detains him, must detain him.
The most curious instance of these surviving classical superstitions is that of the Germans, concerning the Hill of Venus, into which she attempts to entice all gallant knights, and detains them there in a sort of Fools' Paradise.
There is nothing remarkable in the scenery, no art treasures, nothing socially agreeable; what can it possibly be that detains you in such a place?
Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects.
Yet say (for the Immortals all things know) 570 What God detains me, and my course forbids Hence to my country o'er the fishy Deep?
Yet say (for the Immortals all things know) What God detains me, and my course forbids Hence to my country o'er the fishy Deep?
I start from the office; when the Warden detains me: "Take the letter along, but within ten minutes you must return it to me.
I rise weakly, but he detains me: "By the way, Berkman, look at this.
At the same time the rotunda keeper detains a valuable piece of ivory sent to me by the Girl for the manufacture of ornamental toothpicks.
The water, which it imbibes with a kind of avidity, fixes and detains it; so that by this means a much greater quantity thereof is obtained from Sulphur, than if it were distilled without this precaution.
The Island Queen detains them with her Magic 152 Thread-Clew, XXIX.
Tipo Tipo gave Karungu some cloth, and this chief is "looking for something" to give him in return; this detains us one day more.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "detains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
