straiten

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His most celebrated saying was, " Be constant in meditation on death: if thou bein straitened case 'twill enlarge it, and if in affluence 'twill straiten it upon thee."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

To the Editers of The Cawcashin: Surs:—Didn't I tell you that, as soon as I got here, I would straiten things out?

From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Smith, Seba

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

O love immense and independent, which nothing can limit or straiten!

From Spiritual Torrents by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte

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