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See: diffident, discreet, formal, guarded, inarticulate, laconic, mute, noncommittal, private, privy, taciturn, unapproachable, unobtrusive, unresponsive

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Now as this law, under a modified form, is to this day in force in England; and as it offers in various respects a strange anomaly touching the general law of Fast and Loose-Fish, it is here treated of in a separate chapter, on the same courteous principle that prompts the English railways to be at the expense of a separate car, specially reserved for the accommodation of royalty.

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He was a studious man, reserved, and nothing of an orator; but he always had a pile of books under his desk in the hotel, and articles from his pen were beginning to attract attention in the party press.

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I lit up at once, and by the time I had got a good head of reserved steam on, here they came.

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Angelo thought he was a sufficiently nice young man; Luigi reserved his decision.