straiten
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I want you to consider what per cent you can pay, and not straiten yourselves too much.
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda Minnie Douglas
I absolutely must reform, for I do not propose that my father shall straiten himself for me; and that is what will happen if I continue to lead the life I have been leading.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
O love immense and independent, which nothing can limit or straiten!
From Spiritual Torrents by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Many of those things that trouble and straiten thee, it is in thy XXXI.
From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
For indeed, Fate full of marvel is: If fortune straiten thee one day, the next relief is nigh.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by John Payne
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Pygmalion
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"A Day's Work," Excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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