When straitened is my breast I will of my Creator pray. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
When straitened is my breast I will of my Creator pray, viii. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Instead, in straitened times, it is money that has had the final word. From Wordnik.com. [Wayne's new world] Reference
Though always in straitened circumstances, the Garrisons were very hospitable. From Wordnik.com. [Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897] Reference
The policy is defensible as the fairest approach to university finances in straitened times. From Wordnik.com. [Wake up and smell the burning rubber, Mr Cable and Mr Clegg] Reference
I found her lonely and dejected; her husband had no post, and they were living in straitened circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun] Reference
Yea, straitened is my life by the bane and hate o’ foes. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
26By 1740 Antoinetta found herself widowed again, but in straitened circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference
This caused his "straitened" feeling even in prosperity. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
He too foresaw the sharpness of death which He had undertaken to overcome; and this foresight "straitened" Him. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons. Volume The Fourth.] Reference
But what does that mean in these straitened times?. From Wordnik.com. [Second-Term Fantasies] Reference
The voguish word for our straitened times is "fairness". From Wordnik.com. [Ideas for modern living: kindness] Reference
"Is it worth begging for?" asked the straitened book-worm. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Susanna sighed, and said: I am straitened on every side: for if. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
It depends on whom you ask, especially in these straitened times. From Wordnik.com. [Unpaved, Good Intentions] Reference
John Banim, meanwhile, had become much straitened in circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
We're not over borrowing, nor are we as straitened as the pundits think. From Wordnik.com. [Charge It, Santa Baby] Reference
You are not straitened in us: but in your own bowels you are straitened. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 54: 2 Corinthians The Challoner Revision] Reference
The strangers are melted away, and shall be straitened in their distresses. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 10: 2 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
Neglected and idle, he did not grumble; straitened and poor, he did not mope. From Wordnik.com. [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference
But in straitened times, government is the default target for Americans 'discontent. From Wordnik.com. [Barack Obama is down, but it's far too early to count him out] Reference
He proposed an extravagant health-care plan inappropriate to the straitened national mood. From Wordnik.com. [Saxophone Vs. Sacrifice] Reference
For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
The step of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down headlong. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
But even his critics concede that Carter is in harmony with the straitened new state of the Union. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics of Austerity] Reference
We bent a bayonet to catch sharks, one bit at it, and straitened it, and we abandoned our project. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
When he shall be filled, he shall be straitened, he shall burn, and every sorrow shall fall upon him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
March, 1768 to January, 1773 -- years which were embittered by the distress of straitened circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
For a long time he was in very straitened circumstances, but nevertheless worked on with a cheerful heart. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference
This was doubly hard, as the DeVeres were in straitened circumstances at this time, money being very scarce. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys] Reference
And Pharao will say of the children of Israel: They are straitened in the land, the desert hath shut them in. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
And the Amorrhite straitened the children of Dan in the mountain, and gave them not a place to go down to the plain. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 07: Judges The Challoner Revision] Reference
Nor is it surprising that the currency should be straitened when it is notorious that every packet which goes out to. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Executing these orders strictly, as we daily expected to rejoin the army, the division began to be straitened for supplies. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 43: Zacharias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not meet a stumblingblock. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
They were in straitened circumstances, and could not effectively heat the large and handsome house left by the father of the family. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
If any one has him within himself, let him consider what I desire, and let him have compassion on me, as knowing how I am straitened. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
One reason, say economists, is that older people in states such as Florida are delaying their retirement to cope with straitened finances. From Wordnik.com. [US homeowners flock to Florida event in desperate bid to save properties] Reference
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