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For this brilliant woman, who was writing poems at six and French dramas at 10, and whose first book was published at 14, “the straitness of my prison” was becoming intolerable.

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2021

If his own life answer the straitness of his proceeding, 240 it shall become him well; wherein if he chance to fail, he hath sentenced himself.

From Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge

Many are precluded by the narrowness of their education, and many by the straitness of their fortune.

From Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies by More, Hannah

For besides Allah, I have you.––Oh, this straitness of the chest is going to kill me.

From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares

In going thither, we travell'd several hours in the best Wood I ever saw before or since, being very full of Firrs, Oakes, and Beeches, of an extraordinary thickness, straitness, and height.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry