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Confine me here, will he? [11]

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Your Admiralty and your government first pardoned the man, and then gave him freedom on the island which you tried to prevent; and now they turn round and confine him to his acres. [11]
Let me tell you I have an order from the British Government to confine him to his estate; not to permit him to leave it; and, if he does, to arrest him. [11]
It is rumoured you have an order to confine him to his plantation; but to apply it would bring revolution in Jamaica. [11]
When you came to this parish you seemed to have a sensible, a proportional view of things; you were content to confine your activities to your own sphere, content not to meddle with politics and business, which you could, at first hand, know nothing about. [9]
I wish further to say that I do not propose to question the patriotism or to assail the motives of any man or class of men, but rather to confine myself strictly to the naked merits of the question. [7]
I confine myself to life with which I am familiar when pretending to portray life. [5]
He said he thought we would like his establishment well enough to confine ourselves to it--said he never saw anybody who would go off and hunt up another man in his line after trading with him once. [5]
They require that the personages of a tale shall confine themselves to possibilities and let miracles alone; or, if they venture a miracle, the author must so plausibly set it forth as to make it look possible and reasonable. [5]
Some believed in the Commission's scheme to arbitrarily and permanently confine (and thus deepen) the channel, preserve threatened shores, etc. [5]
It was intolerable that she should be called to account for the people she chose to have in her house, that any sort of pressure should be brought to bear on her to confine her friends to Quicksands. [9]
They confine this term to actions done deliberately, after a victory over opposing desires, or when prompted by some exalted motive. [1]
It will be seen that their tramp did not confine itself to pedestrianism, though they did, in fact, walk a great deal, and Mark Twain in a note to his mother declared, "I loathe all travel, except on foot. [5]
I confine that phrase to myself. [5]
We must confine ourselves to the fortunes of our hero. [4]
Let us confine ourselves to that. [9]
We will confine our attention to the higher social animals; and pass over insects, although some of these are social, and aid one another in many important ways. [1]
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. [5]
The letter spoke of the change that this loss brought to his own life, and the new duties laid upon him, which would confine him more closely to England. [4]
There are plenty of dealer's in morals, as in ordinary traffic, who confine themselves to wholesale business. [6]
We have the notion in our country that Italians never do heavy work at all, but confine themselves to the lighter arts, like organ-grinding, operatic singing, and assassination. [5]
Oldring's band did not confine themselves to the rustling of cattle. [13]
The press-gangs did not confine their activities to the men of the mercantile marine. [11]
And she did not confine her angelic visits to the village. [4]
I shall confine myself, however, to one fact, which, so far as I know, may be new to you. [6]
He continued still more deferentially: "Mr. Fulkerson's notion--I must say the notion is his, evolved from his syndicate experience--is that we shall do best in fiction to confine our selves to short stories, and make each number complete in itself. [8]
None, indeed, seemed more cheerful than a recently captured group I saw later, who were actually building the barbed-wire fence that was to confine them. [9]
They now gave me a pair of wooden clogs--benches in miniature, with leather straps over them to confine my feet (which they would have done, only I do not wear No. [5]
Some people are malicious enough to think that if the devil were set at liberty and told to confine himself to Nevada Territory, that he would come here--and look sadly around, awhile, and then get homesick and go back to hell again. [5]
Sh!--keep mum, but just you confine yourself to that diet and you're all right. [5]
In my opinion it ought to let diseases alone and confine itself to surgery. [5]
But the subject is too large and complex for even an abstract to be here given, and I will confine myself to a few remarks. [1]
I had not intended in these early papers to comment, but to confine myself to such of my experiences abroad as might prove interesting and somewhat illuminating. [9]
At all events, I made a resolution to stop high play, and confine myself to whist and quinze and picquet. [9]
It was then he had given the home authorities information which would poison their mind against Dyck, and from that had come the order to confine him to his plantation. [11]
He says the governor told him he had orders from England to confine me here at Enniskillen, and he meant to do it. [11]
In the remarks following I shall confine myself to the production and distribution of literature. [4]
These are actual facts, and I could make the list a long one and still confine myself strictly to the truth. [5]
Unless indeed we confine the term "primary" to the reproductive glands, it is scarcely possible to decide which ought to be called primary and which secondary. [1]
We need not confine the question to those two young persons, but put it more generally. [6]
In order to confine the dignity of Hadji to gentlemen of patrician blood and possessions, the Emperor decreed that no man should make the pilgrimage save bloated aristocrats who were worth a hundred dollars in specie. [5]
Let us rather confine ourselves to studying those sublime rules which our divine Saviour has left for our guidance here below. [2]
It did not confine itself to expressions of feeling, but a spontaneous movement organized itself almost without effort. [6]
Nor did she confine herself to typewriting, but, as with Ditmar, constantly assumed a greater burden of duty, helping Czernowitz--who had the work of five men--with his accounts, with the distribution of the funds to the ever-increasing number of the needy who were facing starvation. [9]
She had to confine herself pretty strictly to "poi" and hard work. [5]
This reassured me, but I begged him to confine himself to speech thenceforth, because his facial expression was uncertain. [5]
To-day I have been requested, or I have requested myself, not to confine myself to furnishing you with information, but to remind you of things, and to introduce one of the nation's celebrants. [5]
These things would be given him, if he would but confine his worship to the god of wealth. [9]
They did not always confine themselves to the book they were reading. [6]

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