fix a limit

Example Sentences

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Another rule should fix a limit to the number of volumes to be drawn by any reader.

From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Spofford, Ainsworth Rand

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 Collins, Wilkie

Neither can we set a limit to it, for wherever we fix a limit, space is springing up beyond.

From Theaetetus by Jowett, Benjamin

Ander's voice still failed him and did not improve, and no doctor was prepared to fix a limit to his malady.

From My Life — Volume 2 by Wagner, Richard

It might be advisable to fix a limit beyond which no citizen of the United States residing abroad may claim the interposition of his government.

From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865 by Lincoln, Abraham