Henrietta had not desired the presence of Mary de' Medici, but when the poor old lady arrived, wearied by troubles and journeyings, her filial heart could not refuse her a warm welcome, and, little by little, the sense of home and kindred, to which she had been a stranger for so many years, overcame the Reluctancy of independence and expediency.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes
And yet a curious Reluctancy, a hesitation inexplicable-unless overwork explained it-had come over him when Siward had proposed their dining together on the very eve of his completed victory over Quarrier.
"The Fighting Chance"
Robert W. Chambers
Alexander at first was so grieved and enraged at his men's Reluctancy, that he shut himself up in his tent, and threw himself upon the ground, declaring, if they would not pass the Ganges, he owed them no thanks for anything they had hitherto done, and that to retreat now, was plainly to confess himself vanquished.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh