self-restraining

The assumption still is that, in order to look elegant, women have to be in some kind of self-restraining physical pain.

There is more of genius, art, thought, and study in this self-restraining simplicity than in the freer and bolder eloquence that might make young pulses tingle.

In brief, as much amazement was expressed as though "men of business" were commonly infallible, and the world had never heard of a man of business whose conduct was not ruled by self-restraining prudence.

If the child be taught that self-restraint is the boasted characteristic of the model American, should he not learn that the model American nation should be self-restraining?

Suffering under the sting of such a fearful apprehension, it required me to exert all the self-restraining power of which I was possessed.