Usage examples for refrain
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How can human beings fed this way be expected to refrain from stealing food when they have an opportunity? – Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 by James Richardson
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Amid all this he resolved to free the faithful fellow and, while Bias was eating, he could not refrain from telling him that he had found a mistress for him, that Daphne was the wife whom he had chosen, but the wedding was still a long way off. – The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers
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So convinced did the young officer become of this, that he could not refrain from watching him. – Middy and Ensign by G. Manville Fenn