straiten
Example Sentences
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That I abandon places when I like them not, Unless Death chain the soul and straiten her career?
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold
Pray don't straiten your lips in that grievously defiant fashion, as Perpetua doubtless did when she heard the bellowing of beasts or the clash of steel in the amphitheatre.
From Infelice by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
O love immense and independent, which nothing can limit or straiten!
From Spiritual Torrents by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte
It is known that statutes made, not to open and enlarge, but on fair grounds to straiten proofs, require two witnesses in cases of high treason.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
But yet in an hour, I did have the cloak about her, again; and so did straiten matters, as you shall conceive.
From The Night Land by Hodgson, William Hope
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
