So every day she led forth the reluctant Elizabeth and patiently stood over her while she blundered through a game of basket-ball, hockey, prisoner's base, or whatever the girls were playing.
Lena did go the very next afternoon, and dragged the reluctant Eva with her.
It would have been well for Kai Lung had he also forced his reluctant feet to raise the dust, but his body clung to the moist umbrage of his couch, and his mind made reassurance that perchance the maiden would return.
With deprecating firmness Lin directed Shen Heng's reluctant eyes to another line--the unfortunate exaction of fifty taels in return for the guarantee that the robe should be permeated with the spirit of rejuvenation.
The assembly gave a reluctantconsent to this arrangement.
Reuben told of it, reluctant to meet the doctor's look because of what the man had said a while ago about vanity, but finding no great difficulty in the telling.
A lifting inflection suggested the speaker loved his words, reluctant to put a period to them.
Yes," said Ben unhappily, and was in the saddle looking down, more than ever reluctant to be going away.
Too much for now--like a runner exhausted, he must rest, and was even reluctant to go on to the house.
One little item let me add; the boat being no longer serviceable, was burnt, Sturt giving as a reason that he was reluctant to leave her like a log on the water.
In the end they had won a concerted though reluctant consent to the project.
A swift, uncontrollable flash of curiosity to see in what spirit the French girl had received her little talk, impelled her reluctant gaze to center itself upon Mignon.
The citoyen Brotteaux showed the young magistrate an interest mingled with surprise and a reluctant deference.
Once the difficulty was to find the guilty, to search them out in their lair, to drag the confession of their crime from reluctant lips.
I didn't dream that a tireless Scheme would ceaselessly work me over until the reluctant atoms in me would begin to work too to turn the Wheel.
Julie wasreluctant to accuse him of any complicity in so Oriental a plot as that Isabel had woven.
She seems to have had a passionate repugnance to alien and external contacts, and to have felt no more than an almost reluctant liking for the lovable and charming Ellen Nussey.
And the picture that rose in Rose Mary's mind, of the reluctant husband being dragged to her at the end of a tether by Everett, cut off the sob instantly.
About a husband for you," answered Stonie in the reluctant voice that a man usually uses when circumstances force him into taking a woman into his business confidence.
Right now it looks like a cow gate to me," and a little reluctant smile came over Rose Mary's grave face as if she were being forced to give up a cherished secret before she were ready for the revelation.
Now it is easy to see why Hilliston was reluctant that Claude and I should investigate the case.
He yet retained some belief in Hilliston, and was reluctant to think that one to whom he owed so much should be guilty of so foul a crime.
What will that man do in heaven, who is afraid andreluctant to commit to God the government of the earth?
Are any reluctantto be entirely in the hands of God?
It was a good sign, at all events, that she was reluctant to give up the trip; and Nick decided not to risk confiding in the police.
Wentworth had overridden all obstacles in Ireland, and had forced an income out of the reluctant people there; he was thought, therefore, by Charles the only man whose wisdom and resolution were equal to the crisis.
Clarence himself was one of the reluctant parties thus forced to disgorge some of his lands, under the act of resumption, on Edward's return from France.
They were near the top when Winn paused suddenly and said in a most peculiar reluctant voice; "Look here, I think I ought to tell you.
Isabella, shocked and outraged by this sisterly mischance, married, in the face of all probability, a reluctant curate.
From a series of reluctant monosyllables he built up a picturesque and reliable structure of his new patient's life.
Please tell me exactly what you've noticed," he said, as if he were a police sergeant and she were some reluctant and slightly prevaricating witness.
Horace, although morereluctant and grudging in his admiration, yet allows the 'Calabrian Muse' to be the best preserver of the fame of the great Scipio.
This was an outside price for the animals, if in condition for work; so I made no further attempt to persuade the reluctant proprietor to part with his quads.
Slack refers to action that seems to indicate a lack of tension, as of muscle or of will, sluggish to action that seems as if reluctant to advance.
And once at work they are often reluctant to give up a personal income for the uncertainties of sharing what a husband earns.
We are reluctant to see the day drawing near when the child must begin his long course of training in school.
Unwillingly and perforce, his honour and his delicacy made him the reluctant keeper of a secret which he disapproved.
She did not know why she was always reluctant to speak of him.
She stopped to speak to him, and, feeling he was reluctant to pass on by himself yet awhile, she leant over a gate and let him talk to her.
The shadow lay, finger-like, touching the stook, but still she sat on, reluctant to go out and make sure of her happiness.
You could," said Peggy after a reluctant pause, "if you wanted to and if I didn't have a date all arranged with somebody who told me to come just by myself.
She married, with my reluctant consent, a young fellow who immediately tried to get me to sell off great portions of my property and turn the money over to him for investment in some crazy oil well he had out west.
Mark's deep pre-occupation of mind took away all thought of the dreary road; but Herbert followed with reluctant steps, half angry with himself for compliance with what he regarded as an absurd caprice.
He was, indeed, reluctant to think so badly of the poor fellow--but how discredit the evidence of his entire household?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reluctant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
