fix a limit
Example Sentences
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Where property has been clothed with the public interest, the legislature may fix a limit to that which shall in law be reasonable for its use.
From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by Larrabee, William
Neither can we set a limit to it, for wherever we fix a limit, space is springing up beyond.
From Theaetetus by Jowett, Benjamin
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 Hornaday, William Temple
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 Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)
I don't at all desire to fix a limit to the series of old stories retold.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 by Dickens, Mamie
