straiten
Example Sentences
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His most celebrated saying was, " Be constant in meditation on death: if thou bein straitened case 'twill enlarge it, and if in affluence 'twill straiten it upon thee."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
I want you to consider what per cent you can pay, and not straiten yourselves too much.
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda Minnie Douglas
Does he not, at this instant, straiten and invade your confederates, whom you have solemnly sworn to protect?
From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by John Hamilton Moore
O love immense and independent, which nothing can limit or straiten!
From Spiritual Torrents by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
What shall we do to spread the wing and soar, Nor straiten thy deliverance any more?
From A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald
Vocabulary lists containing straiten
Pygmalion
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Long Walk to Freedom
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"A Day's Work," Excerpt from "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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