Limits

Examples

• MY limits are inscribed on that Document. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It reached out far beyond the utmost limits of the empire, into Armenia, Persia, Abyssinia, Ireland, Germany, India, and Turkestan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In waste and uninclosed lands, any person who discovers a tin mine may mark out its limits to a certain extent, which is called bounding a mine. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But only think what that tiresome Henry has done; really, he exceeds brother-in-law's limits. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• That place was not beyond the limits of my command, which, it had been expressly declared in orders, were not defined. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sherman may be looked for in the neighborhood of Goldsboro' any time from the 22d to the 28th of February; this limits your time very materially. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The limits imposed practically were such as to require that the system should not cost more than a cable road to install. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There is absolutely no reason why horses should be allowed within city limits; for between the gasoline and the electric car, no room is left for them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• As this causes a loud repetition of the original signals, it will be seen that relaying is an economic method of extending a telegraph circuit beyond the natural limits of its battery power. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The clepsydra became in Greece a useful instrument to enforce the law in restricting loquacious orators and lawyers to reasonable limits in their addresses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But it does not lead to new perceptions of bearings and connections; it limits rather than widens the meaning-horizon. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But the intensity of the vibrations diminishes very rapidly with the distance; so that even with the aid of speaking-tubes and trumpets it is impossible to exceed somewhat narrow limits. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• As to Mr. Pickwick, the affection he conceived for him knew no limits. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Just as we come to know them better, intermediate forms flow in, and doubts as to specific limits augment. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• There are limits, you see, to our friend's intelligence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Meade moved Hancock's corps, now commanded by Birney, to the left, with a view to at least force the enemy to stay within the limits of his own line. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There were no limits to his curiosity. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The narrow geographical limits of these Greek states added to the intensity of their feeling. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The poet may rebel against any attempt to set limits to his fancy; and he may argue truly that moralizing in verse is not poetry. Plato. The Republic.
• Within these limits there is to be much free private ownership and unrestricted personal freedom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There are no limits to the possibilities of monomania, I answered. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The first or variable forms vary much within the limits of the same island. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• By degrees we appeared to contract our search within narrower and easier limits. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• All human resolution, Eleanor, he said solemnly, has its limits. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• That he could have committed the murder alone, seems beyond the limits of probability. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The prohibition of exportation limits the improvement and cultivation of the country to what the supply of its own inhabitants require. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Within the limits of the danger. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• If I remember rightly, you on one occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits in a very precise fashion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• If you ever feel inclined to travel beyond the civilised limits, Mr. Blake, let me know, and I will go with you. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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