Example Sentences

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Nor, he contended, should one try to create new powers through interpretation of the document's phrases, for the Constitution "was intended to lace them up straitly within the enumerated powers."

From Time Magazine Archive

No law may be kept too straitly and no thread drawn too strictly.

From In the Days of the Guild by Lamprey, Louise

For the eternal roads run straitly, and their running is between gateless walls.

From The Furnace by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

The place was straitly watched by vigilant 295 warders, and within the wall so carefully defended lay the Queen’s bower, a fairer chamber than any beneath the sun, and decorated with the most marvellous paintings.

From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Spence, Lewis

I sat suspended in amaze while he spoke thus, his dark eyes sparkling and his fingers straitly interlaced.

From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Wallis, Arthur F.