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Sentences ending with bounds

At that time the prospects for her party were certainly gloomy; the heretical agitation and the boldness of the rebellious enthusiasts for independence and liberty surpassed all bounds. [10]
The joy of the people passed all bounds. [5]
All at once the love of this new life welled up in him, as a spring of water overflows its bounds. [11]
But they district the city themselves, and the dogs of each district, whether it be half a block in extent, or ten blocks, have to remain within its bounds. [5]
The fury of the baffled Expedition exceeded all bounds. [5]
We gained the still pools below, the sun came out once more and smiled on the landscape, and the spirits of the men, reviving, burst all bounds. [9]
But his friend replied: "Something besides that keeps them within bounds. [10]
Let us, judging of the future by the past, ascertain whether there may not be, in the discretion of Congress, a sufficient power to limit and restrain this expansive tendency within reasonable and proper bounds. [7]
Not so very many perhaps, but say a billion--just so as to keep within bounds. [5]
Tipton's rage leaped its bounds. [9]

More example sentences with the word bounds in them

You cannot keep your enthusiasms down, you cannot keep your emotions within bounds when that soaring bubble of marble breaks upon your view. [5]
Drawing keeps us within the bounds assigned to what is true and beautiful. [10]
She was not wicked enough to wish that; yet in the past few weeks she had found herself capable of thinking things beyond the bounds of any past experience. [11]
It was Paul who had liberated that message of rebirth, which the world has been so long in grasping, from the narrow bounds of Palestine and sent it ringing down the ages to the democracies of the twentieth century. [9]
It matters little whether the needle prick him by accident or blunder or design, he will burst all bounds, and establish again the old truth that each of us will prove himself a fool given perfect opportunity. [11]
But a dammed-up torrent of emotion at last burst its bounds, and the hour that saw his release from immediate action was one that confounded him in the reaction of his spirit. [13]
It is agreeable to the traveler to see that the provincials disport themselves within bounds, and that an hilarious spree here does not differ much in its exercises from a prayer-meeting elsewhere. [4]
It is time to be old, To take in sail:-- The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: "No more! [6]
You have set them right, and you will keep him within the bounds of wisdom and prudence. [11]
But woe to the unfortunate Rosetta if she overstepped the bounds of respect! [9]
Nicolas sprang up the stairs in two or three bounds, called his cousin, and hastily told her that her father had had a severe fall from his horse while hunting, and was lying dangerously ill. [10]
Their impulses were the same as of old, but they kept them within bounds by a never-sleeping consciousness that they led, not to joys, but to everlasting punishment. [10]
The hilarity at the association's expense burst all bounds, now. [5]
No landscape exists that is more tiresome to the eye than that which bounds the approaches to Jerusalem. [5]
It was at that instant that my admiration for Tom McChesney burst bounds, and that I got some real inkling of what woodcraft might be. [9]
Of me their suspicion knew no bounds, and they would give me gruff answers, or none, when I spoke to them. [9]
Then she stood still a moment and clenched her hands; with a few light bounds she sprang into the shadow of the Gaul's house. [10]
It did not seem so strange that this silent General with the baggy trousers was the man who had risen by leaps and bounds in four years to be general-in-chief of our armies. [9]
They were like prisoners, and each strove to explore the bounds of their captivity: each sought a lawful ground of communication. [9]
The plain is perfectly level, and seems to stretch away and away and away, dimming and softening, to the uttermost bounds of nowhere. [5]
And it was Paul who was chiefly instrumental in freeing the message from the narrow bounds of Palestine and sending it ringing down the ages to us. [9]
In two bounds our little detachment was in the street, the fire spouting red from the Deckards, faint, shadowy forms fading along the line of trees. [9]
Was there then nothing that could keep them, during peaceful daily life, within the bounds which in Egypt secured the existence of the meanest and weakest human beings and protected them from the attacks of those who were bolder and stronger? [10]
Verily he was not suffered to sell any other goods in the land, inasmuch as the Republic set strait bounds to the dealings of German traders. [10]
Yet he could not keep silence this time; her behaviour had transgressed the bounds of propriety too far. [10]
His pride knew no bounds when, three days after the rescue, Sir Hugh Pawlett, the Governor, answering De la Foret's letter requesting permission to visit the Comtesse de Montgomery, sent him word to fetch De la Foret to Mont Orgueil Castle. [11]
The circle of meale signified their Country, the circles of corne the bounds of the Sea, and the stickes his Country. [4]
As it grew louder and louder the tension within her increased, broke its bounds, set her heart to throbbing too--throbbing wildly. [9]
The legate got little enough in return for his sesterces, but Phoebicius did not restore his wages of sin, and his rage against me knew no bounds when he was transferred to the oasis at the instigation of his betrayed chief. [10]
All Charley's old life surged up in him as dyked water suddenly bursts bounds and spreads destruction. [11]
His hatred for John Paul knew no bounds, and, having once tasted of his displeasure, he lay awake o' nights scheming to ruin him. [9]
If any had, it had still felt for it a love like that which captives have been known to bear towards the cell in which they have been long confined, and, even at parting, hung upon its narrow bounds affectionately. [12]
This was another instance how every trespass of the bounds of the moral order which the Church ordains and hallows entails the most sorrowful consequences even here below. [10]
Far beyond what I had regarded as the bounds of civilization, it is held as one of the mysteries of a fallen world; accompanying the home missionary on his wanderings, and preceding the footsteps of the Tract Society. [4]
As it was, I fell nearly two hundred feet in seven or eight bounds. [5]
That had kept him within bounds so far. [11]
Then he reminded her of the healing and soothing influence she had over Caracalla, and that this influence came doubtless from the gods, since it passed the bounds of nature and acted so beneficently. [10]
To this end he made an extended tour in the South and West, which passed beyond the bounds of frontier settlement. [4]
Their presence might have kept Lindau and our host in bounds. [8]
The general practice has shared in this scientific advance, but it is limited and always will be limited within experimental bounds, by the infinite variations in individual constitutions, and the almost incalculable element of the interference of mental with physical conditions. [4]
Yet the judges had condemned it in the severest manner as a work far exceeding the bounds of moderation, and arousing positive dislike. [10]
Fun must not go beyond proper bounds. [10]
However, he was glad to see her, for, although it seemed almost beyond the bounds of possibility, he had already fancied more than once, as steps had approached and passed, that she must surely be coming to lend him a helping hand. [10]
I have sorrowed for sin, within the bounds of this little Chaudiere. [11]
Our teachers' love for all animate creation had made them impose bounds on the zeal of the egg-hunters, who were required always to leave one egg in the nest, and if it contained but one not to molest it. [10]
Here was an enormity, an exercise of tyrannical power exceeding all bounds, a travesty on popular government.... [9]
Her reading had enlarged the bounds of her imagination, if not her knowledge; the novels nowadays dealt so much with very common people, and made them seem so very much more worth while than the people one met. [8]
The cross-strain of English blood had done him good too; it made him punctilious and kept his impulses within secure bounds. [11]
He took a dozen bounds, not very quickly, letting the borzois gain on him, and, finally having chosen his direction and realized his danger, laid back his ears and rushed off headlong. [2]
Shall I who cry to all, "Come not within The bounds where I my lady have enshrined; I am her cavalier"; shall I not win One dear caress, the rich exchequer find Of thy soft cheek? [11]
He had felt convinced that if the tailor had but been within these bounds during the past three days, a work were begun which should end only at the altar of their parish church. [11]
His disappointment and chagrin brought him beyond bounds. [9]
One day, when camped near the ruins of Jericho, he burst forth with something like this: "Jack, do you see that range of mountains over yonder that bounds the Jordan valley? [5]
But by and by, as emotion began to retire within bounds, and reflection to return to the front, the accomplished Chief Inspector Lizard observed: "But how is this? [5]
The 'conversation' recorded by a supposed Pepys of that period, was written with all the outspoken coarseness and nakedness of that rank day, when fireside sociabilities were limited only to the loosened fancy, vocabulary, and physical performance, and not by any bounds of convention. [5]
It is within bounds to say that some of the results were astonishing. [5]
With a fortitude beyond description she had faced it, gently, quietly, but firmly faced it--firmly, because she had to be firm in keeping him within those bounds the invasion of which would have killed her. [11]
Their clothes have been ordered long ago, at unlimited cost, and without bounds as to beauty and magnificence, and have been kept in concealment until now, for unto this day are they consecrate. [5]
Whenever it has been limited to its present bounds, and there has been no effort to spread it, there has been peace. [7]
The newspaper may be needed in society, but how quickly it drops out of mind when one goes beyond the bounds of what is called civilization. [4]
Mr. Durant cannot be ignorant of the pressure in this direction, nor of my efforts to hold it within bounds till he and such as he shall have time to help themselves. [7]
Its stocks started at shillings, and went by leaps and bounds to the most fanciful figures. [5]
Our young men are well ordered; and our maidens, 'not stepping over the bounds of modesty,' are as fair as Psyches, dispensing smiles as charming as November flowers. [5]
I don't mention any of the sister planets because I like to keep within bounds. [8]
But, nevertheless, her anger broke bounds, and she said: "Cowards--cowards! [11]
Wassef was in an ill-humour: first, because the day had been so hot; secondly, because he had sold his ten-months' camel at a price almost within the bounds of honesty; and thirdly, because a score of railway contractors and subs. [11]
Nancy had what amounted to a genius for interior effects, and she was the first to introduce among us the luxury that was to grow more and more prevalent as our wealth increased by leaps and bounds. [9]
One's enthusiasm bursts all bounds in the contemplation of the brilliant field of discovery and investigation here thrown open to science. [5]
Hur gazed gloomily after him in silence until the footsteps of the belated guest had died away in the sleeping camp; then the ill-repressed wrath of the grave man, who had hitherto regarded his young wife with tender admiration, knew no bounds. [10]
He circled like a whirlwind, round the captain with bounds, thrusts and feints, but Allertssohn maintained his composure, and at first confined himself to skilful parrying. [10]
I consequently, for a large portion of my earlier life, never read a work which struck my fancy, without planning a better one upon its model; for my ambition, like my vanity, knew no bounds. [6]
Not less than a hundred men have been murdered in Nevada--perhaps I would be within bounds if I said three hundred--and as far as I can learn, only two persons have suffered the death penalty there. [5]
There never was a hero who did not have his bounds. [5]
Yonder it stands, a building firm and spacious enough; but from to-morrow a tent will be our home, the camp our dwelling-place, and there will be wild work enough within its bounds. [10]

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