Sentence Examples

1. From billows a thousand times more stupendous than any I have ever seen, we glide away with the facility of the arrowy sea-gull and the colossal waters rear their heads above us like demons of the deep, but like demons confined to simple threats and forbidden to destroy.
2. But in so confined a space it would, in a short time, necessarily become foul, and unfit for use from frequent contact with the lungs.
3. Tight spaces and being confined was something I avoided at all costs.
4. The temperature in the confined area rose quickly as they waited.
5. Don Quixote did not care to break his fast, for, as has been already said, he confined himself to savoury recollections for nourishment.
6. Remarkable experiences are usually confined to the inner life of imaginative men, but Mr.
7. The quick travellers came up with the slow, and courteous salutations were exchanged and one of the new comers, who was, in fact, a canon of Toledo and master of the others who accompanied him, observing the regular order of the procession, the cart, the officers, Sancho, Rocinante, the curate and the barber, and above all Don Quixote caged and confined, could not help asking what was the meaning of carrying the man in that fashion though, from the badges of the officers, he already concluded that he must be some desperate highwayman or other malefactor whose punishment fell within the jurisdiction of the Holy Brotherhood.
8. He passes to and fro, at regular intervals, within a confined periphery, abounding in individuals who are led to observation of his person through interest in the kindred nature of his occupation with their own.
9. Fogg usually confined himself to the cabin, where he kept Aouda company, or, according to his inveterate habit, took a hand at whist.
10. Your Excellencies may, however, readily imagine that the confined regions hitherto unexplored within the limits of the Arctic circle, although situated directly beneath me, and therefore seen without any appearance of being foreshortened, were still, in themselves, comparatively too diminutive, and at too great a distance from the point of sight, to admit of any very accurate examination.