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How to use procrustean in a sentence
Then by a Procrustean process he packs the complex and irregular facts into his scheme.
DOMESDAY BOOK AND BEYONDFREDERIC WILLIAM MAITLANDWe then proceed to apply the Procrustean bed principle with the very acme of sang froid.
THE VITALIZED SCHOOLFRANCIS B. PEARSONYoung limbs will not always adjust themselves to the Procrustean bed.
DOCTOR LUTTRELL'S FIRST PATIENTROSA NOUCHETTE CAREYIt is an error to suppose that beauty must be racked on a procrustean bed of formula.
THE GATE OF APPRECIATIONCARLETON NOYESTo him the judicial office was a Procrustean one of fitting each case to the legal bed, if necessary by a surgical operation.
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAWROSCOE POUNDTo compel the age to conform to the measure of his own conceptions he often found procrustean methods necessary.
VONDEL'S LUCIFERJOOST VAN DEN VONDELIt is revealed as the Procrustean bed which cramps us up until we ache inside.
NONSENSEORSHIPG. G. PUTNAM AND OTHERSHe was clad, as usual, in an immaculate gray frock-coat, and showed no trace of the Procrustean bed he sleeps in.
DIPLOMATIC DAYSEDITH O'SHAUGHNESSYManacled, bound down by the fiery bands of his malady, he writhed, as upon a Procrustean bed.
ALONEMARION HARLANDOn its Procrustean bed the stunted members of the race are racked; the giants are cut down.
THE JOYFUL HEARTROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLERWORDS RELATED TO PROCRUSTEAN
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