Narrowed

Examples

• I know how he has narrowed the circle of his sympathies and duties, in the concentration of his whole mind upon me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Intelligence is narrowed to the factors concerned with technical production and marketing of goods. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• A fog narrowed our horizon to about a quarter of a mile, and the misty veil, cold and dense, enveloped sky and sea in equal obscurity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And the shelter was still there: Lydgate had accepted his narrowed lot with sad resignation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Our inquiry has already narrowed down to that. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• His eyes narrowed dangerously. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Still he went on, for his mind was as utterly narrowed into that precipitous crevice of play as if he had been the most ignorant lounger there. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The young slim cat looked at him, and slowly narrowed its eyes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Thus interest and mind are either narrowed, or else made perverse. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The real choice narrowed itself finally to the Pittsburgh Survey and the Chicago Vice Report. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• As the thern saw us his eyes narrowed to two nasty slits. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down considerably. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• All within me became narrowed to my lot. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Gerald's eyes narrowed with a queer dangerous smile as he watched the other man. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• His instinct for brotherhood was narrowed and debased. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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