Example Sentences

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I have been reserving this side all through my letter, in the conviction that I had something else to tell you.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Hogarth, Georgina

I have been reserving it, I don't mind owning, that I might better enjoy the full relish of it....

From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph

I have been reserving it for some afternoon when we do not feel very energetic.

From The Slave of the Lamp by Merriman, Henry Seton

I have been reserving this place for you, for I have been so anxious to know if you would do me a kindness.

From A Sweet Girl Graduate by Meade, L. T.

We have been reserving it for two reasons—first, because it is a singularly happy anticipation of the discovery of the New World, so happy that it became a favorite stanza with the discoverer himself.

From The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West by Anderson, Robert Edward