Contracted

Examples

• Secondly, In a private copartnery, each partner is bound for the debts contracted by the company, to the whole extent of his fortune. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The spasm causes the muscles of the jaw to contract very quickly and as soon as they are contracted, they let the jaw fall again of its own weight. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• What is called the unfunded debt of Great Britain, is contracted in the former of those two ways. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The spikes had never looked so sharp and cruel, nor the bars so heavy, nor the prison space so gloomy and contracted. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Pardon me again--has contracted your displeasure, how? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• At the sound of his blind, vindictive voice, the laughter suddenly left the girls, and their hearts contracted with contempt. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It took him at least ten years to pay off his college bills contracted during his father's lifetime. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It twitched her nostrils open in a remarkable manner, and contracted her lips and eyebrows. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• These are mortgaged for the interest of the debt contracted, in order to carry it on. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The brilliant and distinguished circle comprehends within it no contracted amount of education, sense, courage, honour, beauty, and virtue. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• During a war of nearly the same continuance, a new debt of more than seventy-five millions was contracted. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Men's thoughts were tied down to a contracted space and a short time,--limited to their own established customs as a measure of all possible values. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The family circle became greatly contracted; and though the Miss Bertrams had latterly added little to its gaiety, they could not but be missed. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Here, marriage is contracted by the parents of the parties to it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He seemed scarcely to hear her, and was walking up and down the room in earnest meditation, his brow contracted, his air gloomy. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• And you have contracted two very bad habits in consequence. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The dark circles deepened, the lips quivered and contracted, and she became insensible once more. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Birkin's heart contracted swiftly, in a sudden fire of bitterness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• When she became like this, like a wall against him, his heart contracted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In the latter, the muscles contract in a steady and uniform manner, and remain contracted for a comparatively long time. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• McCormick at once contracted with Withington for this binder, and tried it on an Illinois farm the following July. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There was a remarkable darkness of colour on it, and the brow was more contracted. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Monsieur still urged, on the other hand, that the space was so--ha--hum--so very contracted. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Doctor Beard, who was present, inferred from the way the leg contracted that it moved on both opening and closing the circuit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Her heart was too much contracted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Of course they contracted that the varlets who dragged us up should not mention bucksheesh once. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She looked up at him, and a slight sinister smile contracted her white face. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Mrs. Sparsit's Coriolanian nose underwent a slight expansion of the nostrils, and her black eyebrows contracted as she took a sip of tea. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I told him of the business of the evening, and a smile relaxed the contracted muscles. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• That public debt has been contracted in the defence, not of Great Britain alone, but of all the different provinces of the empire. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

Typist: Sol