The straitness of this gate is not to be understood carnally, but mystically.
Here we have a most searching and faithful display of the straitness or exact dimensions of that all-important gate, which will not suffer many professors to pass into the kingdom of heaven, encumbered as they are with fatal errors.
You are not to understand it, as if the entrance into heaven was some little pinching wicket; no, the straitness of this gate is quite another thing.
He agreed to this, of thestraitness of his case, and carried her to the bazaar, where the broker offered her for sale to the Governor of Bassora, by name Abballah ben Maamer et Teimi, and she pleased him.
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: “54.
So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
FN#160] whereupon they sprinkled water on her face till she revived; and in truth her charms were wasted for excess of beating and the straitness of her bonds and the sore insults she had suffered.
Now when the Caliph heard these words he smiled and his straitness of breast was done away with and he said, "My life on thee, is this the truth thou sayest, that the Fisherman standeth at the door?
Scabious water helps pleurises and pains, and pricking in the sides; Aposthumes, coughs, pestilences, and straitness of the breast.
The causes of this straitness are thick and rough humours, that stop the mouths of the veins and arteries.
When the Oppression andStraitness are considerable, and the Cough dry, the Patient may receive the Vapour of boiling Water, to which a little Vinegar has been added.
Ay, my Larva-Hermit, with all his bigotry and straitnessof soul, stands higher than most of your artists and poets and musicians of the present day.
Oh, this straitness of the chest is going to kill me.
The straitness and narrowness of our spirits takes in truth by parcels, disjointed from the whole, looks upon one side of it, and sees not the other.
Meanwhile, they sought news of their country and learned that which its people suffered of straitness and oppression.
With this he repented and was perplexed concerning his affair and grieved for that which must escape him of her company by reason of the straitness of his hand,[FN#261] for that he had no jot of spending money.
Nor does this conflict with Rowe's account, which states that John Shakespeare kept William at the free-school for some time; but that straitness of circumstances and need of help forced him to withdraw his son from the school.
San Bernardino, Turning the small dark Oratory To Siena's Art-laboratory, As he made its straitness roomy And glorified its gloomy, With Bazzi and Beccafumi.
Yes, I lodged In those successive tenements; perchance Taste yet the straitness of them while I stretch Limb and enjoy new liberty the more.
He chiefly complained of great straitness and pain in the hypochondriac region, very short breath, swelled legs, want of appetite.
Asthma, anasarca, jaundice, and great hardness and straitness across the region of the stomach.
I took notice before of the straitness of their Walks: But tho' to me it might seem a Diminution of their Beauty: I am apt to believe to the Spaniard, for and by whom they were laid out, it may seem otherwise.
And passed unto their tombs before Hope the bounty showed And from high and awful state all a sudden they were sent * To the straitnessof the grave and oh!
