Meanings of little constraint in English

Her presence, it must be allowed, put but little constraint upon the extraordinary intimacy of the pair.

The party began with a little constraint.

The Judge and Armitage laughed at these explanations, though there was a little constraint upon them all.

He was our colleague afterward in London, and there was always a little constraint and coolness in his manner.

Dolores looked at her sister quickly, for there was a little constraint in the accent of the last phrase.

There was some little constraint.

There was a little constraint.

So, after a little constraint and coldness, he began to stand in much the same relation to him as before.

I think that the princess found her way out of the little constraint first, for she began to smile merrily.

When they spoke, there was a little constraint on both sides; but when they were silent, the bond was instantly renewed.

There had been some little constraint between us for a time, after Mr. Stewart's childish babbling about us as still youth and maiden.

Leonard was enraptured by her discourse, and put so little constraint upon his admiration, that Nizza Macascree could not repress a pang of jealousy.

She shrewdly guessed that Mr. Lindsay would have enjoyed it too, but for herself; there was a little constraint about him still, she could see.