Reticent

We let three more days go by, making certain that the tornadoes had become as sincerely reticent as they seemed.

With Therry and Ser Bartimus he was less reticent.

In contrast to his former reticent taciturnity Prince Andréy now seemed excited.

He had a stubborn, sort of embarrassed look on his face, as if he knew he was going to have to take some more patronizing shit from Harold, but Harold was too unnerved from our "tour" of the Stovington facility to offer more than token resistance. And even that stopped when Glen said, in a very reticent way, that he had also dreamed of the old woman the night before. "Of course, it might only be because Stu told us about his dream," he said, kind of red in the face, "but it was remarkably similar."

"Is that all? I shall come and see. You mustn't be as reticent as you are with me."

Indeed, it may not be a hard task, after all, for she herself has become reticent on the subject, and has not spoken of the Count or his doings ever since we told her of our decision.

Contained his expansiveness. Anybody meeting him there for the first time might have thought him reticent. Almost timid.

A type with few, but very marked features, a species of severe, warlike, wisely silent, reserved, and reticent men (and as such, with the most delicate sensibility for the charm and nuances of society) is thus established, unaffected by the vicissitudes of generations; the constant struggle with uniform unfavourable conditions is, as already remarked, the cause of a type becoming stable and hard.

She wore something dark and lacy, through which her upper arms showed; and the sober book-lined room, with its shaded lamps, and a few lilylike crimson flowers in a tall jar, seemed a part of her, the necessary background to her aloof and reticent grace.

He felt that she really belonged to this puzzling, reticent thing called Europe and that she might make it clear to him.

Their stories are quite different, what there is of them—for they are strangely reticent—but one fact is common to all ... sometime, somewhere, Doctor Hudson had helped them meet a crisis—usually involving money loaned; though not always money; sometimes just advice, and the aid of his influence." "He surely had a big heart!" said Masterson. "Yes, certainly; but there's more to it than that.

In classic sniper style, Vic is reticent, unobtrusive.

The reality was as polished and secure as Paris—a reticent Paris, with a dash of Wall Street.

"You have recorded all the facts faithfully and exactly—though you have shown yourself becomingly reticent as to your own share in them."

By nature she was simple, independent, persevering and, with me at least, reticent.

With Therry and Ser Bartimus he was less reticent.

"Why, doctor," answered the priest, smiling quite pleasantly, "there is one very good reason why a man of my trade should keep things to himself when he is not sure of them, and that is that it is so constantly his duty to keep them to himself when he is sure of them. But if you think I have been discourteously reticent with you or anyone, I will go to the extreme limit of my custom. I will give you two very large hints."

To which our Don Quixote made answer, "Sir, one solitary swallow does not make summer; 151 moreover, I know that knight was in secret very deeply in love; besides which, that way of falling in love with all that took his fancy was a natural propensity which he could not control. But, in short, it is very manifest that he had one alone whom he made mistress of his will, to whom he commended himself very frequently and very secretly, for he prided himself on being a reticent knight."

He experienced a keen premonition of danger and wondered if the chaplain too were plotting against him, if the chaplain's reticent, unimpressive manner were really just a sinister disguise masking a fiery ambition that, way down deep, was crafty and unscrupulous.