Значения для термина "painful restraint" отсутствуют.
1 She stood sobbing, with a painful restraint , and pulling futilely from the lady's persuasive hand.
2 I was conscious of a painful restraint ; she was seemingly at ease, and I became gradually reassured.
3 Still a careful observer might have noticed underneath his victorious airs a trace of almost painful restraint .
4 Mr. Petheram was a young man with a mop of hair, and an air of almost painful restraint .
5 She was a princess, and could not escape from the painful restraints of her position.
6 I am, from my position, subject to painful restraints .
7 Hi-tech devices abound: sophisticated electroconvulsive stun guns, painful restraints , truth serums, chemicals such as pepper gas.
8 It imposed upon him some duties, it was true; and was, in so far, a good; but it also imposed most painful restraints .
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