Retenue

Appareil consistant en une lourde lame retenue entre des montants, qui glisse vers le bas pour décapiter un condamné à mort. ❋ Rene Meertens (2010)

C'est le patron qui m'annonce que ma candidature a ete retenue pour passer a la deuxieme etape du recrutement. ❋ Pinku-tk (2008)

This avowal, made without the least appearance either of shame or retenue, seemed to have a striking effect on the whole society. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Pour autant que ma proposition soit retenue, j'y parlerai de l'importance du rôle des blogueurs polyglottes dans l'assouplissement des frontières linguistiques, des différentes stratégies que l'on peut mettre en place pour bloguer dans plus d'une langue, et des adaptations plugins à disposition pour nos outils fondamentalement monolingues. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But one cannot too early inculcate retenue and decorum to young ladies in a country where demoiselles seem for ever to forget that they are young ladies of condition. ❋ Unknown (2006)

As I was better mounted than they, I said that in the event of my reaching our night-halt first I would order supper and beds for them, and they informed me that every house on the road had been retenue for me, so that I was really making quite a royal progress. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Prince, having less retenue than his French diplomatic colleague, insisted upon taking a turn with the charming creature, and twirled round the ball-room with her, scattering the diamonds out of his boot-tassels and hussar jacket until his Highness was fairly out of breath. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I hestitate to include the complete recipe, especially from such a newly released book from somebody with a retenue of more vigilant lawyers than I. ❋ Niki (2004)

Streets in Wall Street and lower Manhattan were blocked off to local traffic in the morning to allow US President Bill Clinton and his retenue to make its way to a helicopter that was to carry them to Hyde Park for a meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. ❋ Unknown (1995)

Of the majority of Soviet soldiers it was true to say that, after their achievements and losses of the previous month, "Ils ... prenaient possession du pays con - quis, s'adonnant sans retenue à la récupération individuelle." ❋ Clark, Alan (1965)

DISCRÉTION, _f. _, retenue judicieuse dans les paroles, les actions. ❋ Harry Vincent Wann (N/A)

Cet enchanteur qui vous a retenue Depuis trois ans par un charme nouveau Vous retient-il en quelque vieux chateau? ❋ Robinson, Charles Henry (1903)

There are two divisions of inmates; the one in which the discipline is more rigid is called the _retenue_. ❋ Unknown (1889)

The girls of the _disciplinaire_ are sometimes taken outside the institution for walks; those of the _retenue_, never. ❋ Unknown (1889)

How Tom Jones combined these sentiments, which were perfectly honest, with his own astonishing lack of _retenue_, and with Lady Bellaston, is just the puzzle. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

He supposed her to have been educated where the interfusion of a natural liveliness with a veiling retenue gives the title of lady. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

Ay, Richie, there is this use in adversity; it teaches one to play sword and target with etiquette and retenue better than any crowned king in Europe. ❋ George Meredith (1868)