We will confine our attention to the narrow strip just out of reach of the waves, which is not yet dried by the sun.
By that means the game is strengthened, and thus it often happens that a single man can confine several of his opponent’s pieces.
When their number is reduced to six, it is impossible for them to confine the Fox.
To confine the man, and look for further evidence, was all that could be done.
It is commonly hung about the altar-posts of the gods; and it is a strip of this leaf that is tied about the wrist of a sick man to confinehis soul to his body at the close of the soul-catching ceremony.
To this cord a net is attached, and is drawn together in the centre of the opening of the basket by a second cord, in order to confine its contents.
In venturing a solution of this question, I confine myself necessarily to the English translations of the Greek and Latin authors.
In seeking a period, no American need confine himself to his own country.
There, between the Valle del Confineand the Val Malghera, the forest had been recently cut down, and the rocky slope was bare.
I have not written for three days, fearing I should not be mistress of my pen, nor be able to confine my thoughts within words which must not exceed certain bounds.
We must confine ourselves to what is possible; no use wasting our time in proposing things that can't be accepted and are declined in advance.
So closely did he confine himself to study and to the full preparation of his cases, and so fully was his time occupied, that he seemed estranged from the community.
Now let no one despair because he finds this effort to confine his attention difficult, or for a considerable length of time, impracticable.
It must confine itself to offences strictly definable.
They confine a child, poor creature, to this miserable fare; permitting, in due season, only a pittance of the ripest fruit.
No bars can imprison them; no vessels detain them from their kindred element, confine them from their native home.
Why, Sir, to be sure, such parts of Sclavonia as confine with Germany, will borrow German words; and such parts as confine with Tartary will borrow Tartar words.
While they confine their benevolence, in a manner, exclusively to those of their own country, they expect to share in the good offices of other people.
We must fix some standard between moderation and excess, and the more accurately we define moderation, the more narrowly do we confine it.
This may seem a narrow and hard line to draw, and may seem to confine the amount of alcohol that may be consumed to much less than many people wish to indulge in.
This nation," wrote Castlereagh to Aberdeen on November 13th, "is likely to view with disfavour any peace which does notconfine France within her ancient limits.
In the first place, I take away from thee thy mighty magic rod, and confine thee in the narrow circle which I draw around thee.
We scrupulously confine ourselves to what comes to our knowledge through the medium of our senses; the only instruments with which nature has furnished us to discover truth.
Can dungeons, bolts, or bars confine thee, Or whips thy noble spirit tame?
The Lagrangian method being employed rarely, we shall confine ourselves to the Eulerian treatment.
Newdigate, who is to confine himself to his own house,” has given rise to the erroneous impression that Newdigate also had been imprisoned at Sir John’s mansion.
I beg your honor's pardon; to facts, then, will I confine myself.
He could not exactly forgive Mr. Gayles for being so fortunate; nor was he so exclusive as toconfine his dislike to the guardian, but extended it to the ward.
Besides, he really was attached to Eben Bonabben, and being as yet but theoretically acquainted with the passion of love, he consented to confine the knowledge of it to his own bosom, rather than endanger the head of the philosopher.
I confine myself, however, to facts connected with the fortunes of the Abencerrages and the charges advanced against Boabdil.
We have abundant evidence that the devotees of natural science are not willing to confine themselves to the department of nature, in the common sense of that word.
We have seen also that he does not confine his theory to organic structure, but applies it to all the instincts and all the forms of intelligence manifested by irrational creatures.
I will not here enter on those cases, but will confine myself to one special difficulty which at first appeared to me insuperable, and actually fatal to the whole theory.
This word "our" is here a word of limitation, a word which taken literally would confine the blessings and government of the Constitution to the men who made it and their posterity.
It does not confine them to raise troops by quotas on particular States, or to give them the right of appointing regimental officers, but enables Congress to raise troops as they shall think proper, and to appoint all the officers.
