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Example sentences for "means confined"

  • The halo of veneration that surrounds a prison governor is by no means confined to himself, but obliquely and in a modified form imparts itself to the humblest of his followers.

  • The mania for smearing the walls with texts was by no means confined to the chapel, but was to be found everywhere that propriety and extreme religious fervour seemed to suggest.

  • But cases of introduction such as those above referred to are by no means confined to the vertebrates, similar instances among invertebrates being numerous enough.

  • But others, such as Geomalacus maculosus and Asiminea Grayana, are by no means confined to the British Islands.

  • But its range is by no means confined to Europe, for it has also been discovered in Syria and Palestine, while a closely allied form exists in the Himalayan Mountains.

  • But, as we have before intimated, this temperate habit was by no means confined to ardent spirit alone; the same abstemiousness characterized his daily meal.

  • Pleasurable river navigation is by no means confined to underground streams.

  • I regret that this tendency is by no means confined to the province of Palawan.

  • Little by little the commission learned that slavery was by no means confined to Moro territory, and that peonage was general throughout the islands.

  • Depredations upon them were by no means confined to the town of Cagayan de Misamis.

  • This phenomenon is by no means confined to Europe, for Mr. Darwin found at Bahia Blanca, in South America, lat.

  • This fatal power of the imagination working through superstitious terrors is by no means confined to one race; it appears to be common among savages.

  • But they were by no means confined to such persons or even to born subjects of the king.

  • His activity was by no means confined to palaeobotany, but extended into all branches of botany, more particularly anatomy and phanerogamic taxonomy.

  • It should be added that the differential treatment of the various classes was by no means confined to the case of wergilds.

  • Such evidences of ancient population and industry are by no means confined to the remote districts of ancient Dalriada.

  • Such arts, however, were by no means confined to the few ancient historic races, among whom the Tyrians and Phœnicians generally rank the foremost for skill in the working of metals.

  • The evil caused by such language is by no means confined entirely to Protestants.

  • But he by no means confined himself to such subjects.

  • But such elongated nymphæ are by no means confined to one part of the world or to one race; they are quite common among women of European race, and reach a size equal to most of the more reliably recorded Hottentot cases.

  • Erotic symbolism is, however, by no means confined to the individualizing tendency to concentrate amorous attention upon some single characteristic of the adult woman or man who is normally the object of sexual love.

  • They were by no means confined to Italy, but became the vogue in Spain, France, and other countries.

  • Printed fans were by no means confined to France and England, although it is in these countries that the practice obtained most extensively; fans were issued in Germany giving portraits of the Emperor Leopold II.

  • These dagger or stiletto fans are by no means confined to the East; in the British Museum is a print of an Italian stiletto concealed in a case made in imitation of a fan; the panaches of ivory, engraved with Italian arabesques.

  • Their production, however, was by no means confined to Italy.

  • Open air courts were by no means confined to one race.

  • It was also widely spread, and by no means confined to the three-field system.

  • We shall find this correspondence of acreage with the coinage by no means confined to this single instance.

  • But the phenomenon is by no means confined to such organs.

  • Moreover, liquid excretions more or less indicative of diseased states are by no means confined to wounds or definitely injured tissues, in which case such terms are wholly misapplied.

  • The affinities too are by no means confined to portable objects.

  • For, though geometrical art was by no means confined to the Dorians, it may be presumed that their settlement was the latest of those which took place in Crete.

  • We saw further that these features were by no means confined to the later stages of heroic poetry--that on the contrary some of them were prominent even in the Anglo-Saxon poems, while the others appeared to be of equal antiquity.

  • There speedily grew up a sect, by no means confined to Franciscans, to replace the fast-vanishing Cathari as an object for the energies of the Inquisition.

  • The proselyting efforts of the Fraticelli were by no means confined to Italy.

  • The spiritual exaltation which produced among the Franciscans the developments described in the last chapter was by no means confined to the recognized members of that Order.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blind alley; chattels personal; false step; fit for; glacial deposits; honour bound; house shall; how can; letter sent; lower down; means always; means certain; means confined; means easy; means literally; means rare; means sure; means uncommon; means untried; more delicate; play golf; saccharine matter; second chance; seek after; significant glance; surely enough