Bridle

(noun.) the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess; 'his common sense is a bridle to his quick temper'.

(noun.) headgear for a horse; includes a headstall and bit and reins to give the rider or driver control.

(verb.) respond to the reins, as of horses.

(verb.) put a bridle on; 'bridle horses'.

(verb.) anger or take offense; 'She bridled at his suggestion to elope'.

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• I'll crack _my_ whip about their ear'n, afore they bring it to that, though, said Hiram, while Mr. Solomon, shaking his bridle, moved onward. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Lord Worcester took the opportunity to give Sophia a few instructions about holding her whip and bridle. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• His bridle is missing, so that Simpson must have put this on. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Try to get hold of my horse's bridle and lead him to me: you are not afraid? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• As the wet twilight deepened, I stopped in a solitary bridle-path, which I had been pursuing an hour or more. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The escorted governed his own horse, but a loose line was attached to his bridle, the end of which one of the patriots kept girded round his wrist. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me and friendship to each other. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• There were no bridles--nothing but a single rope, tied to the bit. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Food, bits and bridles, noises, vehicles, are used to direct the ways in which the natural or instinctive responses of horses occur. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But the frightened valet had got down in a hurry, and there were twenty hands at the horses' bridles. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Amy bridled up at this insult, and determined to find out the secret, if she teased for an hour. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• At this consolatory reflection, Mrs. Cluppins bridled up, and smiled at Mrs. Sanders, who smiled back again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• To my checked, bridled, disciplined expectation, it seemed very kind: to my longing and famished thought it seemed, perhaps, kinder than it was. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• As he finished mending the pens, a horse, saddled and bridled, was brought up to the garden-gate. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Miss Eliza bridled, muttered something about our sex's envy, and declared that she had proposed leaving me herself. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• On the contrary, it appeared that she had proposed to herself the task of hiding that feeling, and bridling her lover's ardour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• At last, biting her thin lips, and bridling up, she said-- 'It can't be. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• And pray, sir, said the eldest lady bridling, do we look like people who would bemean ourselves by going into the pit? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

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