detainingly

Setting Jack on the floor, she went to Nathan and put her hand on his arm detainingly.

The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger

Thorny vines tore at us detainingly, swampy niggerheads impeded us; but the excitement of the stampede was in our blood, and we plunged down gulches, floundered over marshes, climbed steep ridges and crashed through dense masses of underwood.

The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

Once in that tormented journey there was a sudden jingle of metal, like rattling handcuffs, in the man's ear and a heavy hand fell detainingly on his shoulder -- and he squeaked like a caught shore-bird and shrunk away from under the rough grips of a truckman who had yanked him clear of a lurching truck horse tangled in its own traces.

The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights 1910

Cavenaugh put out his hand detainingly and started to say something; but Eastman rudely turned his back and went down the hall and out of the door.

A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910

"Be-atrice!" cried her mother detainingly; but Beatrice was gone to get ready.

Her Prairie Knight B. M. Bower 1905

But the man on his right removed his cigar from his lips and said in an undertone, "No, sit down, stay where you are;" and the elderly gentleman at Arkwright's side laid his hand detainingly on his arm.

The Lion and the Unicorn 1899

He reached out his hands detainingly, and then drew back as though in apology for having already kept the great man so long waiting in the cold.

The Lion and the Unicorn 1899

Alec, still watching, saw Ralph Bently make a move to rise, and Avery's hand was laid detainingly on his arm.

Flip's "Islands of Providence" Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall 1897

They were half way back to the house before the girl spoke; then, detainingly, she laid her hand upon his arm.

Where the Trail Divides 1893

He reached out his hands detainingly, and then drew back as though in apology for having already kept the great man so long waiting in the cold.

Lion and the Unicorn Richard Harding Davis 1890