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Example sentences for "withheld"

Lexicographically close words:
withered; withereth; withering; withers; withes; withhold; withholden; withholdeth; withholding; withholds
  1. If salt be withheld for any length of time, diseases of the stomach become general, and worms are gendered in the bowels, which are removed with great difficulty.

  2. Sudden changes from liquid to solid food should be avoided, as well as a multiplicity of different kinds; and all stimulating dishes and heating liquors, prepared for adults, should be carefully withheld from children.

  3. Seymour still resented the circumstance so seriously that he had withheld all manifestations of sympathy or concern, and this, the kind Ashley considered, carried the matter much too far.

  4. The first, that there is already so much unsettled land in private hands as to afford room for an immense future population, although the crown not only withheld its grants, but annihilated its soil.

  5. That House did not confide in those ministers; and they withheld their confidence from them for reasons for which posterity will honor and respect the names of those who composed that House of Commons, distinguished for its independence.

  6. The girl, fearing death, broke her promise to Pietro and discovered all that had passed between him and her; which when the gentleman heard, he fell into a fury of anger and hardly withheld himself from slaying her.

  7. Everything was withheld from me, I thought; therefore I could not lead a godly life, no matter how strenuously I strove to do so.

  8. Had not my hand been withheld from due correction, I had scourged much of this diabolical spirit out of a boy, of whom from his infancy I discovered the devil had taken such entire possession.

  9. This advantage, enjoyed upon conditions by most of the powers of Europe, has hitherto been withheld from us.

  10. This provision secures to the State banks a legal privilege in the Bank of the United States which is withheld from all private citizens.

  11. From a bill making direct appropriations for such objects I should not have withheld my assent.

  12. Public gratitude, therefore, stamps her seal upon it, and the meed should not be withheld which may hereafter operate as a stimulus to our gallant tars.

  13. The new tyrants at Paris withheld all news of the coup d'état until they could override the policy of the French plenipotentiaries at Lille.

  14. George, now at Windsor, cannot have been pleased that Pitt and Dundas had a state secret which was withheld for him; but he replied on the morrow in terms, part of which Earl Stanhope did not publish.

  15. The Czar agreed to the plan on 9th July; but the Emperor Francis withheld his sanction for a suspiciously long time.

  16. England, in fact, was then reaching the stage at which she needed foreign corn when nature withheld her bounties at home, and it is well to remember that 1792 was the last year in which England exported any appreciable amount of wheat.

  17. Meanwhile, he withheld subsidies which would have helped them to arm for an almost inevitable struggle.

  18. His compassionate heart withheld him from so utterly destroying the old man's hopes in life.

  19. More than that,--he has withheld your property from you.

  20. I committed an indiscretion this morning, and found upon your table the essay that you have withheld from me for so long.

  21. I ask you, Doctor Gleissert, what you have done with the money that you have hitherto withheld from your niece.

  22. I am sunk so low that in remorseful humiliation I must sue for esteem and love, try to deserve them by the penitence of a lifetime, and not murmur if they are withheld from me.

  23. Northward they turned; and a policeman who glanced at their unkempt and slinking figures withheld the attention and suspicion that he would have granted them at any other hour and place.

  24. With a curious eye, a critical mind and a fairly withheld judgment Blinker considered the temples, pagodas and kiosks of popularized delights.

  25. His hands were still withheld and hidden, clasping his wrists within the wide, loose apricot sleeves of his gown, but his eyes looked as if they touched her.

  26. He withheld nothing from them that his eyes desired, and kept not his heart from any pleasure.

  27. All the blessings which the Law pronounced on the obedient seemed withheld from them, all its promises of good and peace to be falsified; the wicked triumphed over them, and prospered in their wickedness.

  28. Food is withheld and the bowels are carefully irrigated after each movement with the salt and soda solutions.

  29. Again, the annual increment had been withheld from one Lacon, a telegraphist at Birmingham, and the local Secretary of the Postal Telegraph Clerks' Association.

  30. In July, 1901, Mr. Groves intervened on behalf of a postman at Manchester from whom annual increments of pay had been withheld under the rules governing irregular attendance.

  31. The Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. Hanbury, had told Mr. Steadman that the Superintendent at Birmingham reported that Lacon's increment had been withheld because Lacon had been insubordinate while on duty.

  32. That it was not regard either for the Carthaginian peace party or for existing treaties which withheld the Romans from action, is self-evident; moreover, if they desired war, the Spanish feuds furnished at any moment a ready pretext.

  33. What makes me think that Morris was greatly influenced by this canon is the fact that Morris could and did write humorous poetry, and then withheld it from publication.

  34. If there is any important article of a simple diet such as milk, meat, cereals, or vegetables, which a child habitually refuses, this should always be given first at the meal and other food withheld until it is disposed of.

  35. Burning to tell Aeneas her secret, yet withheld by womanly modesty, she endeavours to betray it indirectly by heaping extravagant gifts upon him.

  36. In that hour of bitter disappointment that which is withheld seems more desirable than the total of all that has preceded it.

  37. Whitbread knew his man well, and if he withheld what was owing to him, may be excused on the ground of real friendship.

  38. But my vanity for some time withheld me, for it is in this quality of our race that the anchor takes the firmest hold.

  39. The extent of my wealth I have not withheld from thee, neither will I conceal from thee the extent of my grief.

  40. It is better that the suffrage should be conferred indiscriminately, or even withheld indiscriminately, than that it should be given to one and withheld from another at the discretion of a public officer.

  41. It is, therefore our will that our daughter's hand be withheld till entire peace be restored.

  42. There was something of mystery, an odd suggestion of withheld meaning, in the old servant's manner that made Mark smile.

  43. She knew the door into the sitting room was open and with one hand she felt behind her for the frame, afraid to turn her back on him, afraid to move her glance, the withheld shriek ready to burst out when he spoke or sprang.


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    Other words:
    held; kept; preserved; reserved; retained; saved; spare