held-back

Updated: May 21, 2025

As she had expected, gloom canopied every crib and cot; beneath, eight small figures, covered to their noses, shook with held-back sobs or wailed softly. According to the custom that had unwittingly established itself, Ward C was crying itself to sleep.

Ruth Sawyer - The Primrose Ring

The listening girl thought not. Sooner or later the artificial barrier would be broken through by the held-back flood of passion, and then Lady Agnes would run away from the man who had bought her. And quite right, too, thought Chaldea, although she had no notion of permitting such an elopement to take place.

Fergus Hume - Red Money

We are all practically waiting in crowds to-day, all over this country in held-in and held-back crowds, to act better than we look. This belief is the first belief the first practical working belief the next President of this country should have about the people.

Gerald Stanley Lee - The Ghost in the White House : Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want