restraint,

“I regret to inform you,” said Syme with restraint,

The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith 2003

Q Friday, the President said if Milosevic didn't show restraint,

Press Briefing By Barry Toiv And David Leavy ITY National Archives 1999

A memory of Gibreel Farishta welled up, catching her unawares: Gibreel at some point during their three and a half days, booming with his usual foot-in-mouth lack of restraint,

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

The children were crying, Kathleen impulsively and without restraint,

Grey Town An Australian Story Gerald Baldwin

It was not that she was jealous lest he should be fond of me, but she feared that, in speaking according to my usual custom, freely and without restraint,

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

Harris kept a private parlor for herself and daughters, and here we poor rebels met every now and then with a little less restraint,

A Virginia girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865, by ed. Myrta Lockett Avary 1903

The American contempt for statutes and ceremonies, the boundless impatience of restraint,

Song of the Broad-Axe 1900

"Do you know," she exclaimed, shaking off for the moment all restraint,

Laramie Holds the Range 1898

They received [Marduk's] chastisement, they were confined in restraint,

The Babylonian Legends of the Creation 1895

And hating all conventions that may mean restraint,

Poems of Purpose Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1887