Thesaurus / reserve
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Bruce, as he had arranged, was in reserve with Carrick and the Isles.
David, seizing the opportunity, deposited his reserve of lozenges in the ground and hastily swept some earth over them.
BROTHER JACOBGEORGE ELIOT
To Cromwell there must have been something specially galling in More's attitude of reserve.
HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE, VOLUME III (OF 8)JOHN RICHARD GREEN
The prompt use, at the proper moment, of the reserve, may decide the battle.
The air will tend to pass out too quickly, reserve it and allow it to pass out steadily and regularly.
It is to this that I reserve especially the appellation of grace.
THE AESTHETICAL ESSAYSFRIEDRICH SCHILLER
The manners of maidens had more of reserve and formality then.
It bears date May 12, 1515, and was apparently held by him in reserve.
A HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION OF SPAIN; VOL. 1HENRY CHARLES LEA
But Judd may reserve himself for the half-mile, which he is sure to take.
She showed a reserve, however, which was presently explained.
THE LIFE OF SIR JAMES FITZJAMES STEPHEN, BART., K.C.S.I.SIR LESLIE STEPHEN
WORDS RELATED TO RESERVE
- ability
- appliance
- artifice
- assets
- capability
- capital
- cleverness
- contraption
- contrivance
- course
- creation
- device
- expedient
- fortune
- hoard
- ingenuity
- initiative
- inventiveness
- makeshift
- means
- measure
- method
- mode
- nest egg
- property
- quick-wittedness
- recourse
- refuge
- relief
- reserve
- resourcefulness
- riches
- shift
- source
- step
- stock
- stockpile
- store
- stratagem
- substance
- substitute
- support
- surrogate
- system
- talent
- way
- wealth
- worth
- ability
- appliance
- artifice
- assets
- capability
- capital
- cleverness
- contraption
- contrivance
- course
- creation
- device
- expedient
- fortune
- hoard
- ingenuity
- initiative
- inventiveness
- makeshift
- means
- measure
- method
- mode
- nest egg
- property
- quick-wittedness
- recourse
- refuge
- relief
- reserve
- riches
- shift
- source
- step
- stock
- stockpile
- store
- stratagem
- substance
- substitute
- support
- surrogate
- system
- talent
- way
- wealth
- wherewithal
- worth
- abstemiousness
- abstinence
- caution
- coercion
- command
- compulsion
- confines
- constraint
- control
- coolness
- curtailment
- economy
- forbearance
- grip
- hindrance
- hold
- inhibition
- limitation
- moderation
- prevention
- repression
- reserve
- restriction
- secretiveness
- self-denial
- self-discipline
- self-government
- self-possession
- self-restraint
- silence
- suppression
- unnaturalness
- withholding
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