Confined

Examples

• But practical sense told them that sex cannot be confined within marriage. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But in many cases victory depends not so much on general vigour, but on having special weapons, confined to the male sex. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• You must leave your surroundings sketchy, unfinished, so that you are never contained, never confined, never dominated from the outside. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was now reduced and confined to the original purpose of its institution. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It would have been had I been a Martian, but I had to smile at the puny strands that confined my wrists. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Originally no doubt, and for untold centuries, the use was confined to the hairy, undressed, fresh, or dried skins, known as pelts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The champions were therefore prohibited to thrust with the sword, and were confined to striking. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I'm rather confined for room here, but you must put up with all that, when you come to see a young bachelor. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• During the two days Mr. Pickwick was confined to bed, Sam was his constant attendant. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The quarters were small, the staff was composed of two men, and the entire work was confined to making photographs of the cars and parts for advertising literature. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Caliphronas, touching neither coffee nor tea, drank water only, and confined his eating to bread, honey, and eggs. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It is compared to the wavelets produced by a stone dropped in w ater, only that in the case of sound the waves are not confined to one plane. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Wallace was temporarily in command of Smith's division, General Smith, as I have said, being confined to his bed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Though at first confined to a length of 800 feet, the slide extended to include the entire basin south of Gold Hill, or a length of about 3,000 feet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The ignorant distrust of opium (in England) is by no means confined to the lower and less cultivated classes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Why am I confined alone? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But their success in this more confined trade was not greater than in their former extensive one. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The guard lolled before the unbarred gate of the cage which confined me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The old pain over the heart and the other symptoms of the illness at Grimsby returned, and Anne was confined to her bed in the cottage. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Now this weakness is not, as Mr. Chesterton would like to believe, confined to the clever men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The bed-chamber occupied by Mr and Mrs Flintwinch was within a few paces of that to which Mrs Clennam had been so long confined. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The effect by daylight is, however, superior, but the room must then be darkened, and the admission of light confined to the picture. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Moreover, in the case of animals which wander much about and cross freely, their varieties seem to be generally confined to distinct regions. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• What is the scene, confined or expansive, which her orb does not hallow? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• And is this confined to the sight only, or does it extend to the hearing also, relating in fact to what we term poetry? Plato. The Republic.
• Is there no doubt in your mind that the person who confined her in the Asylum was Sir Percival Glyde? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The father was confined to his bed, there was a come and go of SOTTO-VOCE sisters and brothers and children. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The poor side of a debtor's prison is, as its name imports, that in which the most miserable and abject class of debtors are confined. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A plant will not grow in a pot too small for it, nor will a child constantly confined in swaddling clothes develop its physical nature freely. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The range of life of the Upper Pal?ozoic Period was confined to warm water or to warm swamps and wet ground. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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