Prohibited

Examples

• The champions were therefore prohibited to thrust with the sword, and were confined to striking. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Watch-cases, clock-cases, and dial-plates for clocks and watches, have been prohibited to be exported. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Balls will be absolutely prohibited, unless you stand up with one of your sisters. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Certain of his writings were declared false and prohibited, and he was admonished that he must follow certain lines in his teachings. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• For this reason, many states have prohibited the use of alum in baking powders. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The exportation of unmanufactured brass, of what is called gun-metal, bell-metal, and shroff metal, still continues to be prohibited. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Such importation, therefore, instead of being encouraged, has frequently been prohibited. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In 1699, accordingly, the further exportation of corn was prohibited for nine months. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Such occupations were considered as fit only for slaves, and the free citizens of the states were prohibited from exercising them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In some countries the interest of money has been prohibited by law. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The price at which exportation of corn is prohibited, if it is ever to be prohibited, ought always to be a very high price. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In 1697, the Ehglish prohibited the importation of bone lace, the manufacture of Flanders. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• By this system of laws, therefore, the carrying trade was in effect prohibited. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The exportation of English wool has been prohibited. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Some goods, the particular objects of the jealousy of our own manufacturers, are prohibited to be imported for home consumption. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The government of that country, at that time under the dominion of Spain, prohibited, in return, the importation of English woollens. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Under Spanish rule Mexico was prohibited from producing anything that the mother-country could supply. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On the contrary, it, in many cases, prohibited the manufacturer from exercising the trade of a shopkeeper, or from selling his own goods by retail. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Orders of the government prohibited the expulsion of the negroes from the protection of the army, when they came in voluntarily. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This mild form of a bleaching substance has been put to uses which are now prohibited by the pure food laws. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The importation of live cattle, except from Ireland, is prohibited at all times; and it is but of late that it was permitted from thence. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• With marriage prohibited and prostitution tabooed, the Commission has a choice between sterilization and--let us say--other methods of expression. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• South End is prohibited, if you please. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He came; and he would have been delighted to shew his uniform there too, had not cruel custom prohibited its appearance except on duty. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The exportation of the materials of manufacture, where it is not altogether prohibited, is, in many cases, subjected to considerable duties. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The English law had long prohibited combinations in restraint of trade, combinations to raise prices or wages by concerted action. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nothing is told us of the application of communism to the lower classes; nor is the table of prohibited degrees capable of being made out. Plato. The Republic.
• She continued to look up exactly with the countenance of a child that longs for some prohibited dainty. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• A knight, it was announced, might use a mace or battle-axe at pleasure, but the dagger was a prohibited weapon. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.

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