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Meanings of too strait in English

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Usage of too strait in English
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Their numbers were increasing, and their narrow valleys were too strait for them.
Caesar: A Sketch
2
Why, Parson, old man, you mustn't be too strait-laced out here.
Under Fire
3
The place is too strait for me; give place to me, that I may dwell.
Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune / A Tale o...
4
Therefore is the mind too strait to contain itself.
The Confessions of St. Augustine
5
America was too strait to accommodate that jangling quartet.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
6
They had sinned; and the cherubim and the flaming sword made it too strait for them.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
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Because of the law, therefore, the gate will be found too strait for the unsanctified to enter in.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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He had been brought up in too strait a sect to subscribe to such an opinion as this.
Orange and Green: A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick
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The door opens into a palace, but it is too strait for any one who trusts to himself.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke
10
The angels will make this entrance strait; yea, too strait for the unjustified and unsanctified to enter in thither.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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Here the firm remained some years, the book trade steadily increasing, until the old quarters were too strait for its accommodation.
Cleveland Past and Present: Its Representative Men / Comprising ...
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A late act of parliament has, in this respect, somewhat slackened their fetters, though they are still by much too strait.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Why did you leave Havera and go to Burra?-Havera is a very small island, and it became too strait for me.
Second Shetland Truck System Report
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And the sons of the prophets said to Eliseus: Behold, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
15
But God is above every creature, and within and without every creature, and all created comprehension is too strait to comprehend Him.
Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the...
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The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The place is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
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