straiten

Example Sentences

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O love immense and independent, which nothing can limit or straiten!

From Spiritual Torrents by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte

But yet in an hour, I did have the cloak about her, again; and so did straiten matters, as you shall conceive.

From The Night Land by Hodgson, William Hope

I absolutely must reform, for I do not propose that my father shall straiten himself for me; and that is what will happen if I continue to lead the life I have been leading.

From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de

No one can wish to straiten his chance of acquittal, or to inquire too curiously whether there be not a pretext for closing the door that now stands ajar.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Husb.—It is very kind in you, my dear, and I must always acknowledge it; but, however, I would not have you straiten yourself too much neither.

From The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Defoe, Daniel