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His nightly prayer must be a desperate petition that his less restrainable followers be stricken dumb until the Halifax speech is forgotten.

From Time Magazine Archive

C. C. J. McPherson, 158 F. R. 355 Unfair competition not restrainable if copyrightable work is not copyrighted, 264 1908 Bobbs-Merrill Co. v.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Bowker, Richard Rogers

But it was with an impatience scarcely restrainable that she waited for the approach of evening which would bring her lover.

From Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by Simms, William Gilmore

C. C. J. Colt, 149 F. R. 858 Use of name "Webster" not restrainable except where public is misled, 261 1908 Merriam v.

From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Bowker, Richard Rogers

Mad movements both, restrainable by no known rule; strongest passions of human nature driving them on: love, hatred; vengeful sorrow, braggart Nationality also vengeful,—and pale Panic over all!

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas