fix a limit

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Another rule should fix a limit to the number of volumes to be drawn by any reader.

From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Spofford, Ainsworth Rand

Lord Kitchener: If you could fix a limit it would clear up the matter.

From The peace negotiations between the governments of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, and the representatives of the British government, which terminated in the peace concluded at Vereeniging on the 31st May, 1902 by Velden, D. E. van

If it is a labour to us, who will fix a limit to another person's industry?

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke

Who can fix a limit to the intelligence or the achievements of our species?

From Caesar's Column by Donnelly, Ignatius

It was impossible to fix a limit to the number of these malevolent spirits constantly provoking diseases and infirmities upon men.

From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by Cutten, George Barton