Bounds
[baʊndz]
Examples
- The exultation and joy of the Pickwickians knew no bounds, when their patience and assiduity, their washing and scraping, were crowned with success. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Then he struck gold, invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Who knows the metes and bounds of it? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You elated my pride beyond all the bounds of humility; you blessed me with more than human happiness, but to destroy my peace for ever! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- My rage was without bounds; I sprang on him, impelled by all the feelings which can arm one being against the existence of another. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I thanked him, staring at him far beyond the bounds of good manners, and holding tight to Joe. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- His gratitude to his kind benefactor knew no bounds, and his industry was indefatigable. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- No landscape exists that is more tiresome to the eye than that which bounds the approaches to Jerusalem. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In this war there is an idiocy without bounds. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I regarded this as very treacherous on the part of Mr. Skimpole towards my guardian and as passing the usual bounds of his childish innocence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Those occasions are kept with some marks of distinction, but they rarely overleap the bounds of happy returns and a pudding. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mrs. Hatch and her friends seemed to float together outside the bounds of time and space. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Mr. Pickwick's indignation during the whole of this proceeding was beyond all bounds. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It's no use telling him, fools will always break out o' bounds. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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