limitary

Example Sentences

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He was reminded, however, that his power was limitary, and that he would not be allowed to exceed it.

From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas

I never stood much affected to these limitary specialities.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary

It is an infinite, an indistinct, where each consciousness defines and sets a limitary form.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

Thou guardest those whom heaven has cursed Lest from their prison-house they burst, And standest by the gates of hell Their limitary sentinel.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

The brilliant dare-devil from Italy despised alike the raw, limitary, reputable, priggish undergraduates and the dull, snuffling, smug-looking, fussy dons.

From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas