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

I don't at all desire to fix a limit to the series of old stories retold.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 by Dickens, Mamie

We find it as vain to foresee a cause as to fix a limit for the arbitrary inconsistencies in the dispositions of mankind.

From Antonina by Collins, Wilkie

Here there is no ancient system of social exclusiveness to fix a limit to the intellectual progress of the proletariat.

From The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People by Bourinot, John George, Sir

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