Sentence example with the word 'straitness'

straitness

Last update: July 10, 2015


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I should say that from her chamber window, and not three feet away, such is the straitness of that close, it was possible to look into a barred loophole lighting the stairway of the opposite house.   [Please select]

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His habits of solitary wandering and studious indoor work had hindered his becoming the chum of any of his schoolfellows, and this absence of intimacy had been increased by the fact that the straitness of his mother's means prevented his inviting any of his schoolfellows to his home.   [Please select]

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How, after these wicked, cynic, dreary histories and encounters, I nestle into my home and am so humbly grateful for its every little self-abnegation, every straitness of bond, no less than for the unspeakable riches it holds--that of being loved and beloving to one's heart's highest-heaped and deepest-down-pressed measure.   [Please select]

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