I bought them out and reserved the front seats for them.
"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"
Alexander Irvine
So Hester Craigmile, reserved and intense, closed her lips on her own thoughts, which it seemed to her to be useless to utter, and let them eat her heart out in silence.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
They who remembered his shy and reserved manner wondered whence he came by his dignity; they who knew his youth could not imagine how he came by his "law."
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever