...A refrain of dissyllabic verse begins at theclose of the 3d stanza and recurs after that regularly at the close ofevery other stanza... 
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
..."Brother, refrain from insults, which can only make yourcondition worse...
Antonio de Trueba Henry J. Gill 「The Cid Campeador」
...Having dragged him, as she imagined, to the chopping-block, she could not refrain from chopping...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...Such powers as the States agree to refrain from exercising,although they do not delegate them to the General Government...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America」
... There is no stated day of rest in any part of this country, except the day after the appearance of the new moon, and the people then refrain only from going to their gardens...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... Our party ashore seemed to partake of our excitement, and joined in the wild refrain of the mad African song...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...Many shots were fired, notwithstanding the Commodore's orders to refrain...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
... who could close his eyes and ears to the plaintive cries of such a mother? Who could refrain from aiding on to freedom children honored in such a heroic parent? ...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...Harry Cresswell did not voice his mind for he was not wholly disposed to welcome what was there; but he could not refrain from saying in tones almost confidential: ...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...But I could not refrain from going back myself,believing that I could accomplish it better than a stranger...
Henry Bibb 「Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself」
... Above all things refrain from the excessive use of ardent spirits...
Austin Steward 「Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman」
...She finally selected a song of the Gloucester fishermen she had written two years before—a song of toil and death—but with a refrain that effaced the terror with the dance of summer seas...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
...But I could not refrain from branding so odious a mode of exploitation, and I trust that this short digression will be pardoned...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...And we are no morethan the vanished wolf to the swallow, and so longas we refrain from peeping into his nest and handlinghis eggs or young, he does not know us, and ishardly conscious of our existence...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds and Man」
... he cannot refrain from aiming apointed witticism at him: "Martinus...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...Nevertheless, I cannot refrain from all conjectureon the subject, and will go so far as to suggest what may havebeen at least one of the many concurrent causes that have producedthe parasitic instinct...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
...He will avoid blaming the dog with his own mistakes, and wisely refrain from trying to exact from the dog what by physique and breeding he was not intended by nature to do...
Oliver Hartley 「Hunting Dogs」
...The hunters could not refrain from laughing as they sprang to the ground, and standing in a semicircle in front of the hole, prepared to fire...
R.M. Ballantyne 「The Dog Crusoe and his Master」
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