limitary
Example Sentences
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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 Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
The Philippine Commission commenced its functions as the legislative body, with limitary executive powers in addition, on September 1, 1900, the military governor continuing as the Chief Executive until July 4, 1901.
From The Philippine Islands by John Foreman
I never stood much affected to these limitary specialities.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
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 Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
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 Thomas Wright
