He is a trifle condescending, to be sure; he does not forget the difference in our stations, but he does not permit himself to study me with eyes of blank indifference, nor is he reticent to the verge of hostility.

I did not express my opinion of her, but she was not so reticent.

In the early part of their acquaintance, Mr. Lorimer had sought to draw her out on the subject of her experiences during this period, but he had found her reticent.

But it had not soured him: it had only saddened him, and made him reticent.

Her father had been a reticent man, and as there was no reason why he should have talked much about his absent friend Foxwell, it was not surprising that Margaret should never have known how close the tie was that bound them.

The open-hearted child was learning to be reticent.

And yet, in view of fatal errors on the part of generals, the disobedience of orders, and the unfriendly detractions of Chase,his able, but self-important Secretary of the Treasury,not a word of reproach had fallen from him; he was still gentle, conciliatory, patient, forgiving on all occasions, and marvellously reticent and self-sustained.

The more polite were reticent, taking pains not to mention Clerambault's name, or ask after him,you don't speak of ropes, you know, in the house of a man who has been hanged....

I was, you know, never very reticent, and in days like these even the ordinary reticences of ordinary times are swept away.

But at least it is ready, and I shall take the first opportunity I get to cable to you, as I am afraid before this you have worried, unless your geography is faulty, and the American papers are as reticent as ours.

After the first exchange of letters Gianluca had grown suddenly reticent.

She was reticent and proud, and could never be attached to many people.

About ten years ago, my father brought her to Josiah Carpenter's but he's always been reticent about her, in fact I never took the pains to inquire.

Even the keeper is reticent on the subject.

"Dignity and repose," "expression ample yet reticent," are qualities which one of our ablest modern critics emphasises as essential, and the end must always be more impressive than the beginning,the reader must be carried onwards and upwards, and left with a definite feeling that in what has been said there is neither superfluity nor omission, but rather a completeness which precludes all wish or need for a longer poem.

None of us has ever asked Morris about it, and his grief has been as reticent as our own.

I am reticent only about such things as might offend her delicacy of feeling or the purity of her thoughts.

Mr. Clarence is singularly reticent of the details of what occurred.

I forget now what chance comment or criticism of mine moved so reticent a man to confide in me.

CHAPTER III Ailsa and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Craig, had been unusually reticent over their embroidery that early afternoon, seated together in the front room, which was now flooded with sunshinean attractive, intimate room, restful and pretty in spite of the unlovely Victorian walnut furniture.

His favourite word of commendation was pleasing, and if he ever brought himself to say (and he was not a man who scattered his judgments, rather was he extremely reticent of them) of a man, and still more of a woman, that he or she was unpleasing, you almost shuddered at the fierceness of the condemnation, knowing, as all Locker's intimate friends could not help doing, what the word meant to him.

Besides, I was astonished, for I had been told that he was exceedingly reticent and avoided conversation with any one; in fact, they were afraid to introduce me to him, so I had to look him up alone.

Socially he was good-natured and playful, never aggressive, too modest to be a leader, rather reticent.

He is so incorrigibly reticent.

At present he is reticent on the subject, and he won't speak till he is KOCH sure.