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I fancy if she ever lets you into her inner case, you would only find just what has been tormenting and dragging your own life out of you - the same sort of things - only 'her great dragon underground, in straiter fetters bound,' had not been let loose for a long time.

Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892

Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself.

Devil Gallery for Day Four. | Mind on Fire 2010

“If this passage grow any straiter, the raft will hardly pass, and I cannot turn back; so I shall inevitably perish miserably in this place.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

And in such condition my course continued down the channel which now grew wide and then straiter till, sore aweary by reason of the darkness which could be felt, I fell asleep, as I lay prone on the raft, and

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

A definition, like the barke with the tree, is to be neither straiter nor larger than the thing defined; and so it comprehend all, the shorter it is, the better.

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

A definition, like the barke with the tree, is to be neither straiter nor larger than the thing defined; and so it comprehend all, the shorter it is, the better.

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

A definition, like the barke with the tree, is to be neither straiter nor larger than the thing defined; and so it comprehend all, the shorter it is, the better.

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

A definition, like the barke with the tree, is to be neither straiter nor larger than the thing defined; and so it comprehend all, the shorter it is, the better.

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

Our Saviour, with good reason, binds his followers with a straiter bond, permitting no place at all for a voluntary and arbitrary oath.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

I find it stated, moreover, on the authority of Sir G. Paul's _Life of Whitgift_, that Cartwright acknowledged the generosity of Whitgift, and admitted "his bond of duty to the Archbishop to be so much the straiter, as it was without any desert of his own."

Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 Various