detain

Example Sentences

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Detain them as long as needful at the table, no matter by what arts.

From Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

Seek the mail-arm'd multitude, by force Detain them of thy soothing speech, ere yet All launch their oary barks into the flood.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

Didst, as I desired, Detain him in my absence when he called, And, without seeming, sound him touching me?

From The Love-chase by Morley, Henry

Does not our love, and pledge of faith once given, Nor thought of Dido, doomed to die a cruel death, Detain thee?

From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Miller, Frank Justus

"Detain us if you dare, you young ruffian!" exclaimed the sheriff, protruding his harsh visage from one side of the sleigh.

From The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter A tale illustrative of the revolutionary history of Vermont by Thompson, D. P.