1 Her power was limited, and the consciousness of this limitation had biassed her development.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night 2 The philosophy of her nature, and its limitation by circumstances, was almost written in her movements.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 3 A forced limitation of effort offered a justification of homely courses to an unambitious man, whose conscience would hardly have allowed him to remain in such obscurity while his powers were unimpeded.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 4 This description must be received with a week-day limitation.
5 Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here speak of ancient deeds, deeds of the past which have lapsed, which can be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN... 6 These men were a mile beyond the city limits and police protection; hearing that Barrett's crowd was coming to attack them Saturday night, they mustered forces, and prepared to defend themselves against the attack.
7 Erect, his stature surpassed that of his fellows; though seated, he appeared reduced within the ordinary limits of the race.
8 Deeply regretting this weakness on the part of a sister muse, we shall at once retire from her sacred precincts, within the proper limits of our own humble vocation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18 9 Those acute and long-practised senses, whose powers so often exceed the limits of all ordinary credulity, after having detected the danger, had enabled them to ascertain its magnitude and duration.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19 10 Unable to command himself any longer, the youth broke from the place, and presently stood in the center of a disorderly throng, that included nearly everything having life, within the limits of the encampment.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 11 The hated and yet respected name was repeated as by one voice, carrying the sound even beyond the limits of the lodge.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 12 Their distant villages, their hunting-grounds and hundreds of their women and children, together with a material part of their physical force, were actually within the limits of the French territory.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28 13 An old man belonging to Colonel Lloyd, while thus engaged, happened to get beyond the limits of Colonel Lloyd's, and on the premises of Mr. Beal Bondly.
14 Yet his zeal for certain studies was remarkable, and within eccentric limits his knowledge was so extraordinarily ample and minute that his observations have fairly astounded me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 15 Within the limits of his short tether he had tumbled about, annihilating the flowers of existence with greater singleness of purpose than many of the blatant personages whose company he kept.