WITHHELD

Traducere în limba română

withheld past şi part. trec. de la withhold.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

He had almost as much as declared his conviction of her criminality last night: what mysterious cause withheld him from accusing her?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I was close upon him, my knife uplifted, but I withheld the blow.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

At last Grey Beaver withheld his hand.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

I could not give her pain by asking what it was, for I knew that she withheld it from me, to spare her father.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Her partiality for this gentleman was not of recent origin; and he had been long withheld only by inferiority of situation from addressing her.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

A length of time beyond a specified date during which rules or penalties are withheld.

(Grace Period, NCI Thesaurus)

I have told you now the whole truth, and if I withheld it from the police it is because I did not realize then the danger in which my dear friend stood.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have withheld the advantages which you must know to have been designed for him.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

The man struck the shrewd blow he had purposely withheld for so long, and Buck crumpled up and went down, knocked utterly senseless.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

If your husband thinks fit to keep you in the dark over this matter, is it for me, who has only learned the true facts under the pledge of professional secrecy, to tell what he has withheld?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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