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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

Quoth Alessandro, 'How shall I go into the abbot's chamber, seeing thou knowest it is little and of its straitness none of his monks might lie there?

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John

The truth is, there is no straitness, no bondage, no scantiness, but in sin.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

The straitness and narrowness of our spirits takes in truth by parcels, disjointed from the whole, looks upon one side of it, and sees not the other.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

His practised eye recognised the impossibility of avoiding the pass, either to the right or to the left; and, at the same time, the extreme straitness of its entrance.

From A Struggle for Rome, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Dahn, Felix