keep within limits

Example Sentences

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But it was a subdued agony now, a sore I was somehow able to control and keep within limits.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

He felt that he ought to keep within limits; but I cannot help thinking that they might have been a little closer than he would quite acknowledge.

From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

We sent down ships to keep within limits various preposterous little manifestations of the revolutionary habit, and, after some negotiations, we concluded an agreement.

From African and European Addresses by Roosevelt, Theodore

Reflections of this colour were useful; they helped to keep within limits the growth of agitating desire.

From Born in Exile by Gissing, George

Dickens, realising rightly that the whole tone of the book was fun, felt that he ought to keep out of it any great experiments in sadness and keep within limits those that he put in.

From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)