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Meanings of narrow bounds in English

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Usage of narrow bounds in English
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Outside the narrow bounds of the company my world was all abstract.
Who Goes There? / The Story of a Spy in the Civil War
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Sulpizia's powerful nature chafed in the narrow bounds of the convent discipline.
Gifts of Genius: A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Au...
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In these narrow bounds am I to waste my youth, my existence?
Thaddeus of Warsaw
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The future-eventhe narrow bounds of an earthly future-holdsmen prisoners.
The Seventh Noon
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The close air and narrow bounds began to tell upon his appetite and strength.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 / A Magazi...
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All the season's splendor seemed concentrated within those narrow bounds.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 / A Magazin...
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The colony, of which the noble Iroquois was a citizen, was confined within narrow bounds.
Young Lion of the Woods / Or, A Story of Early Colonial Days
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Of course, the modern poet can hem himself within no such narrow bounds as this.
The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature
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They trap kids in chairs, in classrooms, in the narrow bounds of an established curriculum.
Reuters
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But Hus soon stepped outside these narrow bounds.
A History of the Moravian Church
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Every rain-pool was a mimic sea, and had a mimic storm within its own narrow bounds.
The Seaboard Parish Volume 3
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Passions of this stamp are the product of human cultivation, and break loose only within narrow bounds.
The French Revolution - Volume 1
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North fell to pacing his narrow bounds.
The Just and the Unjust
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All these cut off, you surely see within what narrow bounds your fame can seek to spread.
De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream
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The philosopher, leaning on principles which Science styles immutable, is confined within the narrow bounds of created matter.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 / ...
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By overleaping those narrow bounds, he more effectually seizes the whole mind, and more powerfully accomplishes his purpose.
Seven Discourses on Art
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