fix a limit
Example Sentences
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Who then can forecast what may be possible five hundred years, or even a century hence; and who will be bold enough to fix a limit to the possibilities of science!
From To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story by Mark Wicks
They were considered as exempt from the common frailties of schoolboy nature: no one ventured to fix a limit to their power.
From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
Neither can we set a limit to it, for wherever we fix a limit, space is springing up beyond.
From Theaetetus by Benjamin Jowett
Give a chimpanzee articulate expression and language, and no one could fix a limit to his progress.
From The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations by William Temple Hornaday
We find it as vain to foresee a cause as to fix a limit for the arbitrary inconsistencies in the dispositions of mankind.
From Antonina by Wilkie Collins
