Feeling that he wanted me to ask him, I carefully refrained from doing so.

He expected me to ask questions but I carefully refrained from showing interest.

For that matter, he'd carefully refrained from memorizing them himself.

He's carefully refrained from killing any of my people.

Karl had carefully refrained from 549 eyeing his wife too much in the presence of the boy.

He carefully refrained from pointing out to her that she had just called the baby Zap.

She carefully refrained from discussing what the job was.

Toni carefully refrained from pointing out that there were horror books, too.

And he carefully refrained from training his pupils in more than the fundamentals.

I carefully refrained from looking at her as we walked along although I knew she was observing me pretty closely.