At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.(..)In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
puhekieltä To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
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(w) (c.1552–1599)
The king's person contains the unruly people from evil occasions.
(w) (1564-1616)
Fear not, my lord: we can contain ourselves.
Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.