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Example sentences for "confine himself"

  • Sokrates reproves his prolixity, and requests him to confine himself to question or answer.

  • In Scotland Archbishop Sharp had pursued his persecuting and coercive system to such an extent, that Charles was obliged to order him not to overstep his proper duties, but to confine himself to spiritual concerns alone.

  • No sooner was this paper transmitted to Loo than William sent orders to the Spanish ambassador to quit England in eighteen days, and during that period to confine himself to his house.

  • He would, however, suggest to the member from Vermont, who could not but observe the state of the House, to confine himself strictly to the subject of his motion.

  • This common ground I shall endeavor briefly to describe; for it is very plain that the teacher must, in ordinary cases, confine himself to it.

  • For it is very plain, that the teacher must, in ordinary cases, confine himself to it.

  • The excellent chaplain did not wish to confine himself to his court functions.

  • He wished to confine himself to his academic functions, and trembled at the thought of adding to them that of preacher.

  • Staupitz interfered, telling him not to pretend to fathom the hidden purposes of God, but to confine himself to those of them which have been made manifest in Christ.

  • However that might be, it so happened that De Blenau was hardly known to any individual within the limits to which, by the King's command, he was bound to confine himself.

  • He agreed, however, by this treaty, to confine himself, from that time forward, to the limits thus assigned.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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