So that love is sometimes the Detaining force which keeps the girl in the country.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
And before William could see any way of Detaining him-or would it be better to detain Katharine?
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
You now know the real reason of the restraint I have put upon your liberty: I have been protecting instead of Detaining you.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving