8 Metaphors for reserving

I found, however', that a certain reserve was an efficient remedy.

My reserve on the subject of the other capture, the reader will at once see, was merely a necessary piece of prudent caution.

Johnson's own experience, however, of that gentleman's reserve was a sufficient reason for his going on thus: 'Fox never talks in private company; not from any determination not to talk, but because he has not the first motion.

He admits, indeed, that "no expressions of endearment or tenderness ever escape the Indian sexes toward each other," as all observers have remarked, but claims that this reserve is merely a compliance with a political and religious law which "stigmatizes youth wasting their time in female dalliance, except when covered with the veil of night and beyond the prying eye of man."

Her reserve was really diffidence; her dreamy, expressionless gaze the result of a serious nature and a thoughtful temperament.

"It would have been far better if she'd shown some reserve" "Reserve is certainly an admirable quality," commented Fullaway, "but it is foreign to young ladies of Mademoiselle's temperament.

Those reserves were pawns on a chessboard.

To conserve is the part of wisdom, and reserve is a necessary element in all good literature, as well as in everything else.

8 Metaphors for  reserving