straiten
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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)
No one can wish to straiten his chance of acquittal, or to inquire too curiously whether there be not a pretext for closing the door that now stands ajar.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
But really when I saw so much goodness, generosity, tenderness, and real honesty, I had not the heart to accept it, for fear he should straiten himself upon my account.
From The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) by Defoe, Daniel
No law must straiten The ways they wait in, Whose spirits greaten And hearts aspire.
From More Songs From Vagabondia by Carman, Bliss
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
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