Believing his employer contemplated flight, Tubbs laid a restraining hand upon his coat-tail, while inadvertently he turned his knife in his mouth with painful results.
He put a restraining hand on Bill's arm and with the other hand drew the coat back into its place on the bent shoulders.
In England the easier and more usual plan is adopted of heavily taxing the sale, with, in addition, various minor methods for restraining the sale of alcoholic drinks and attempting to improve the conditions under which they are sold.
Keefe, as president of their International Union, has had more difficulty in restraining his men and in teaching them the obligations of a contract than any other leader.
The Indian was dragging the woman from the restraininggrasp of her companions.
The restraining ropes were cast off, and it rose high in the air.
All punishments in that world are reformatory, or for the purpose of restraining spirits from evil doing, and protecting others, as all punishments should be in this world.
As there is a correspondence between the natural and spiritual causes of disease, so there must be a correspondence between the methods of restraining and curing natural and spiritual diseases.
Bobichel watched her all the time, restraining his sobs with difficulty.
With features convulsed with rage the Vicomte, unable to speak, drew from his pocket a handful of cards, and flung them into the face of the unknown, who started forward, but one of his friends laid a restraining hand on his arm.
Martin Lorimer, however, signally failed to appreciate it, for the words obsolete and full-crusted stuck in his throat, and I had some difficulty in restraining him from returning forthwith to the newspaper offices.
Under any other circumstances Donald would have exercised a restraining influence upon Sandy and the boys of his acquaintance, but just now his heart was angry and reckless.
No, really I would prefer not to take anything," responded Johnson, putting a restraining hand on her as she was about to leap from the table.
But on seeing the Sheriff raise a restraining hand he desisted from pulling the Australian along.
Ashby laid one restraining hand upon her, while with the other he held on to the Mexican.
The history of the Church abundantly shows the dangers that have sprung from the Confessional, though the Roman Catholic will maintain that its habitually restraining and moralising influence greatly outweighs these occasional abuses.
In careers of riot and of vice the thought of death may have a salutary restraining influence; but in a useful, busy, well-ordered life it should have little place.
Nothing can permanently secure our moral being in the absence of a restraining will basing itself upon a strong sense of the difference between right and wrong, upon the firm groundwork of principle and honour.
In moral culture it is not less important to acquire the power of discarding the demoralising thoughts and imaginations that haunt so many, and meeting temptation by calling up purer, higher and restraining thoughts.
Let us explain: Any man or woman can set himself or herself to study one or all of the above specified "Occult Arts" without any great previous preparation, and even without adopting any too restraining mode of life.
This is the Gate of the Occult arts, practised for selfish motives and in the absence of the restraining and beneficent influence of Âtma-Vidyâ.
Yet he succeeded in restraining himself, and challenged the quarryman, in a firm voice: "What do you want?
Then restraining herself, she added coldly: "You are jesting, M.
With a violent effort, therefore, he succeeded in restraining his wrath.
But the gipsy drove back the fiend; and restraining his inclination to take vengeance on the keeper, he merely commanded him, sternly, not to advance another step till all his people had cleared the wall.
And, still restraining her tears, she got safely to her bedroom.
It is equally evident, that with restraining influences removed, city populations in a large measure, will again return to the country for homes; attracted thither by the many advantages offered by co-operative village life.
For Scotty had arrived at a period when the unknown and the forbidden were the alluring, and the lawful and the restraining were the irksome.
But to-day the awe of the new master had had a restraining influence, and most of the wilder spirits had betaken themselves to an outdoor campaign.
The presence of the curb in the horse's mouth, although not used, has a restraining influence, especially with an animal accustomed to it.
Curb-bit, also Lever-bit: A bit with a straight or curved lever or rod attached on each side, designed for the purpose of restraining the horse.
