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Definition of Straitening
1. straiten [v] - See also: straiten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Straitening
Literary usage of Straitening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas Carlyle (1860)
"For Destiny has her nets round him ; they are straitening, straitening; too soon
he will be ginned! Driven out from Trent, what shall he make of the new ..."
2. The Diary of William Bentley: Pastor of the East Church, Salem, Massachusetts by William Bentley, Joseph Gilbert Waters, Marguerite Dalrymple, Alice G. Waters, Essex Institute (1914)
"... straitening their Streets. The Middlesex Canal begins already to prove its
value to Boston & Stores are opened at each end of it. ..."
3. Sermons and Discourses: Now Completed by the Introduction of His Posthumous by Thomas Chalmers (1877)
"... obstinately firm in spite of every attempt and every remonstrance— that the.
straitening should still continue—not the straitening of God toward us. for ..."
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