bed of Procrustes
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Like the bed of Procrustes, fashions are compelled to suit every one.
From Dress as a Fine Art With Suggestions on Children's Dress by Merrifield, Mary Philadelphia
Think what that must be even to a man innocent of crime, and feel how far worse than the bed of Procrustes it must be to one like me.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
The seat of ideals, then, in one's mind, should be, as it were, a lounge, over which these hangings may drape and flap harmlessly; but it may easily become as the bed of Procrustes.
From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The bed of Procrustes, madam, was a bed to which all who lay upon it had to be conformed.
From Come Rack! Come Rope! by Benson, Robert Hugh
Ben Jonson complained that it compels all ideas, irrespective of their worth, to fill a space of exactly fourteen lines, and that it therefore operates on the same principle as the bed of Procrustes.
From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post
