1 For our part, we reserve to the word its ancient and precise, circumscribed and determined significance, and we restrict slang to slang.
2 Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817 3 It will be understood that the word inn-keeper is here employed in a restricted sense, and does not extend to an entire class.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS 4 The use of it had to be restricted.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA 5 And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES 6 Nevertheless the opinion of Tacitus, duly restricted and not understood as applying to a case like that of Appius, merits approval.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX. 7 The alternative thus offered the nation was not between full and restricted Negro suffrage; else every sensible man, black and white, would easily have chosen the latter.
8 In the most cultured sections and cities of the South the Negroes are a segregated servile caste, with restricted rights and privileges.
9 Lily had abundant energy of her own, but it was restricted by the necessity of adapting herself to her aunt's habits.
10 In those days, the captain's authority was restricted to the navigation and general management of the vessel; while over the whale-hunting department and all its concerns, the Specksnyder or Chief Harpooneer reigned supreme.
11 For the last year and a half I have not had a hand in anything dishonourable, amid all that time I have been struggling in most restricted circumstances.
12 She then peeped round to where I sat; so stern a neighbour was too restrictive to him, in his present fractious mood, she dared whisper no observations, nor ask of him any information.
13 In the new public law courts he disliked the restrictions laid on the lawyers conducting cases.
14 She paused before him with a smile which seemed at once designed to admit him to her familiarity, and to remind him of the restrictions it imposed.
15 Neither the dissipations of the past--and she had lived very much in the world--nor the restrictions of the present, neither sickness nor sorrow seemed to have closed her heart or ruined her spirits.