fix a limit
Example Sentences
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As well fix a limit of ninety hours!
From The Iron Furrow by Botkin, Henry A.
If it is a labour to us, who will fix a limit to another person's industry?
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke
It was impossible to fix a limit to the number of these malevolent spirits constantly provoking diseases and infirmities upon men.
From Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing by Cutten, George Barton
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)
This would probably place the fugitive upon his guard, and we could not pretend to fix a limit to the time that would be necessary to effect his capture.
From The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives by Pinkerton, Allan
