18 Verbs to Use for the Word detention

and, turning away, hastily descended the hill, and was lost to view among the trees of the skirting wood, before the council had time to resolve on the course they should pursue respecting his detention, or Rodolph had recovered the shock that his cruel words had inflicted.

They suffered, besides, some detention from ice and bad weather; and it was not until the 18th of July that, in lat.

All parleying with the extortionate landlord had only the effect of making him more positive and even insolent; and when we at last threw him the money to avoid further detention, he told us to mark his house, and, with the face of a demon, told us we should never enter his house again.

This unfavourable weather so retarded our equipment that it was the middle of April before we were ready for sea; after which time we experienced further detention from not being able to complete our crew.

Instructions were sent to Mr. Hollis, the United States consul at Lorenzo Marques, that he should investigate the seizures and make every effort to protect the property of American citizens, and later he was urged to ascertain the facts concerning the detention of American flour on board the ships arrested by Great Britain.

She was leaving the house by the kitchen-door, when she remembered Nancy, left alone and helpless all through this long morning; and, ill as she could endure detention from the solitude she longed to seek, she patiently fulfilled her small duties, and sought out some breakfast for the poor old woman.

The very occasional cases of infraction of rules which entail one or more days' detention in the police cells, have a special diet prescribed for them.

" "He shall never return, my lords," said a tall, dark man, advancing towards them, "if you will entrust his detention to me.

Well, they were not released immediately, but after six or eight monthsI forget exactly how many monthsof detention.

Its operation has been extended so as to include any detention against the will of the person detained.

To this haziness, which by obscuring distant objects was unfavourable for surveying purposes, we owed our long detention here.

But in Sydney, if I understand the matter rightly, they keep daily impressions of all the stamps in a book.' 'Just sojust so, Sir John,' said Bagwax, feeling that every word spoken to the lawyer renewed his own hopes of going out to Sydney,but feeling also that Sir John would be wrong, very wrong, if he subjected his client to so unnecessarily prolonged a detention in the Cambridge county prison.

The debate might involve his friends and sympathizers until in every close caseas nowthe community would be divided in hostile camps, one side urging release of the accused, the other urging his detention.

Early the next morning Lafitte caused them to be released from their confinement and saw them safe on board their pinnace, apologizing the detention.

At Hull he writes: 4 mo. 12.My detention here, waiting for a fair wind to Hamburg, has not been unpleasant; my friends are exceedingly kind, but my feelings in a religious sense have been rather depressing.

These are strong, and worn round the neck to assist detention, and are probably as good as other celebrated anodyne beads which have been so long recommended for the same purpose.

The ministry first tried to repress the discontent by the issue of a proclamation against "forestallers and regraters," framed in the language and spirit of the Middle Ages; and, when that proved ineffectual to restore confidence, they issued an Order in Council absolutely prohibiting the exportation of any kind of grain, and authorizing the detention of any vessels lying in any British harbor which might be loaded with such a cargo.

At Cronstadt we had to be put on board a smaller steamer, which caused us much detention.

18 Verbs to Use for the Word  detention