strictly forbidden

• “Wrist-watches were strictly forbidden in battle, together with all other anachronisms except spectacles, and even those had to be National Health steel-framed.”

  War Game

• “Mass or to insert the name of the excommunicated person in the prayers, even though he may be in the state of grace owing to perfect sorrow or may have died truly repentant, would be a "communicatio in divinis", and is strictly forbidden under penalty of excommunication”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

• “They always bought their soap-bubble pipes there, "three a penny," and would gladly have bought some of the toffee-balls and barley-sugar which were also to be had, if this had not been strictly forbidden by mamma, in spite of their grumbling.”

  Little Miss Peggy: Only a Nursery Story

• “Quarreling and using vulgar and profane language is strictly forbidden on the farm, and any hand or hands violating this rule shall be discharged or corrected, in the discretion of the superintendent.”

  Biography of a Slave

• “As a child she had adored Kenneth, the handsome blond boy from Dunbarton, whom they were strictly forbidden to so much as acknowledge.”

  Unforgiven

• “The next act in the drama was a challenge issued by Prince Philip of Coburg against Count Keglewitch, who left Nice for the encounter: the duel was fought in the army riding-school at Vienna, the commander of the metropolitan garrison and the minister of war acting as seconds to Prince Philip, although duelling is strictly forbidden by law in Austria, as it is in Germany.”

  The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe

• “The costume of the men and women was very similar; there was sufficient difference, however, to mark the sex, and it was strictly forbidden to a woman to wear the appendages, such as the staff, signet-ring, and other ornaments, of a man; as well as to a man to wear the outer robe of a woman.”

  Smith's Bible Dictionary

• “Now, apart from the fact, which you know, and which formed the basic evidence in favour of the verdict of suicide, that there was nothing wrong with the water-heater, tell me this: was Ursula Doyle the kind of child you would envisage as having done a thing which, I hear, was strictly forbidden to the children, and for which one girl has been expelled?””

  St Peter's Finger

• “I was strictly forbidden ever to go outside the gates alone; but once, at evening, I slipped out and ran along the road to meet papa, who, I knew, was coming from Landerneau on foot.”

  A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago

• “Intermarriage with the heathen was strictly forbidden and many such marriages previously contracted, even of priests, were dissolved in consequence of the legislation promulgated by Esdras.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip

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