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.
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.
I lit up at once, and by the time I had got a good head of
reserved steam on, here they came.
Angelo thought he was a sufficiently nice young man; Luigi
reserved his decision.