Results for retint translation from French to English

une main me retint.
i was just about to drop down, when a hand laid hold of me.

elle retint son souffle.
she held her breath.

elle se retint de les toucher.
the control of circulation.

beaucoup retint harmonia loin de cela.
quite a bit of that was documented by harmonia.

mais il la retint, il la supplia.
but he held her and entreated.

cyrus smith le retint de la main:
harding held him back.

un épisode de sa vie retint mon attention.
an episode of his life held my attention.

fix le retint. « un instant, dit-il.
fix caught him by the arm, and said, "wait a moment."

cette paroisse retint d’abord son attention.
the parish first engaged his attention.

la mère seul le retint dans sa passion pour le théâtre.
only his mother supported her son's passion for the theatre.

actes 5:2 et retint une partie du prix, sa femme
acts 5:2 and kept back part of the price,

chacun dans sa tente, et il retint les trois cents hommes.
and retained those three hundred men :

en italie, un ouvrage du prussien corneille de pauw retint son attention.
in italy a work by the prussian cornelius de pauw came to his attention.

11et ses frères furent jaloux de lui; mais son père retint ces choses.
11 his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.

pour remplacer beauchesne, le ministère retint les services de joseph adolphe renaud.
he also had vast professional experience.

arrivé aux cuisses, il ferma les yeux, retint sa respiration et tira vers le haut.
when he reached her thighs, he closed his eyes, held his breath, and lifted.

À l'époque, toutefois, on ne retint pas les leçons de cette révolte.
at the time, however, the authorities did not learn anything from these rebellions.

il ne risquait pas davantage à dire vingt mille, mais une certaine pudeur juvénile le retint.
he would not have risked more if he had said twenty thousand; but a certain juvenile modesty restrained him.

4 son beau-père, le père de la jeune femme, le retint trois jours chez lui.
4 his father-in-law, the girl's father, detained him; and he remained with him three days.

ce dimanche-là, quelque animation devant l’église me retint dehors après vêpres.
that sunday, a little excitement in front of the church kept me out-of-doors after vespers.