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There is one important consideration, which, owing to the contractedness of my limits, I have omitted to enforce in this work.

From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd

He has felt the power of the mountains over his mind, and been filled with longing, as a grand emotion, but the contractedness of the spiritual horizon has not tormented him.

From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth

This mill, from its nearness to the reservoir, as well as the contractedness of the valley at the spot, had experienced the violence of the flood in a degree of intensity unknown elsewhere.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 by Chambers, William

In this sense he felt contractedness to be the predominant characteristic of Earth and Water, expansiveness that of Air and Fire.

From Man or Matter by Lehrs, Ernst