reticence

Example Sentences

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She always gave you a feeling of delicately intertwined reticencies and avowals, a faint New England flavouring which she had never lost.

From Balloons by Bibesco, Elizabeth

I remembered the reticencies of her statement at the Hanyards, and began to see dimly some of the connecting links in her story.

From The Yeoman Adventurer by Gough, George W.

Day after day she will read it in his eyes, in his reticencies, in his efforts to be cheerful—she will know that he remembers—what she was!

From Possessed by Moffett, Cleveland

And this attraction affected her morally, producing in her modesties, reticencies of speech, even of thought, and prickings of unflattering self-criticism unknown to her heretofore.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas

And they would smile at one another—a faint smile hers would be, seen as it were, through the veils of her exquisite reticencies.

From Balloons by Bibesco, Elizabeth