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

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.

Car-washers were straitly informed that their duty was to wash cars and not to rifle the tool-boxes and door-pockets thereof.

From A Knight on Wheels by Hay, Ian

She with good cause being much troubled at that prediction, called the man to her, and straitly questioned him concerning the matter and how he came to know it.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert

For example: one day his Majesty being straitly besieged in his fortress was informed by his Dutch cannonier that Emir Jemla was riding within range.

From Stories about Famous Precious Stones by Orpen, Mrs Goddard