What is "held back"

Usage examples of "held back".

But when Ellis accompanies her mother, a nurse, on a mission in the Philippines, she finds that life -even if held up - cannot be held back, and neither, finally, can she.

If you have a gnawing, uneasy feeling that you should be doing something to preserve our freedoms and to protect and improve our way of life but have been held back by lack of time, lack of money, or die helpless feeling that you individually could not do enough to make the effort worthwhile, then this book was written for you.

During the early part of their acquaintance, Phoebe had held back rather more than was customary with her frank and simple manners from Holgrave's not very marked advances.

But it has certainly been very often found by experience that many would confess the truth if they were not held back by the fear of death.

For the squat creatures were mighty in the arts of war, and knew not the scruples of honour which held back our tall, grey-eyed men of Lomar from ruthless conquest.

Inspector Whiteleaf held back the sliding door, the mechanism of which had been broken so that the door now automatically remained half closed.

Like him, they would have noticed the quietness and sensed the evil portents, and held back their own powers to listen.

Her father, scarce knowing what he did, was plunging in after her, but was held back by some behind him, who saw that more efficient aid had followed his child.

Kirk came very near intervening but held back, realizing that Spock could not be blamed for Chapel’.

Therefore I held back, feeling little concern other than that of reprobation, while the others pressed about the jar and sniffed greedily at the con-tents.

That kind of cool slouchiness always impressed Jimmy, coming from another guy: it was the sense of energies being held back, held in reserve for something more important than present company.

You on earth have unwittingly felt its distant presence - you who without knowing idly gave the blinking beacon the name of Algol, the Demon-Star It is to meet and conquer the oppressor that I have vainly striven for eons, held back by bodily encumbrances.

Those who would still have held back were carried along by the stream, and so it was settled that if the need should arise for Myles to do a bit of fighting, the others should stand by to see that he had fair play.