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Sentences ending with confined
- Donovan Pasha went with her to the room with the mud floor where Kingsley Bey was confined. [11]
- The Bastille is taken, but there are other fortresses still in the royal hands where you may be confined. [9]
- The very army itself has had a miracle happen to it: it has been democratized--and with the cheerful consent of the class to which formerly the possession of commissions was largely confined. [9]
- Another time he interrupted, saying: "And will she soon be confined? [2]
More example sentences with the word confined in them
- Do not consider yourself as confined to discussing only our sad affairs. [14]
- As the patient would be confined for a good while, he might find it dull work to sit with his hands in his lap. [6]
- The former is wonderfully strong; a confined bird will at the proper season beat her breast against the wires of her cage, until it is bare and bloody. [1]
- The red kerchief which had confined it was lying on the floor. [10]
- The weaver-bird (Ploceus), when confined in a cage, amuses itself by neatly weaving blades of grass between the wires of its cage. [1]
- The Seigneur's remarks were highly critical, till, with a few hasty strokes on brown paper, Charley sketched in his figure with a long overcoat in style much the same as his undercoat, stately and flowing and confined at the waist. [11]
- Several of them were caught and confined in the fort, and, guarded, were conducted to the morning and evening prayers. [4]
- To the Admiralty we owed the fact, the journal urged, that the Araminta was now at the bottom of the sea, and its young commander confined in a French fortress, his brave and distinguished services lost to the country. [11]
- When the bridge was repaired and the boats were a second time confined to the draw it was provided that this record should be kept. [7]
- Hitherto Warner's repute was mainly confined to the inhabitants of a provincial capital and its outlying and dependent towns. [4]
- I think he was genuinely fond of birds, but, so far as I know, he usually confined himself to one a day; he never killed, as some sportsmen do, for the sake of killing, but only as civilized people do,--from necessity. [4]
- If ever there was an oyster that fancied itself a whale; or a jack-o'lantern, confined to a swamp, that fancied itself a planet with a billion-mile orbit; or a summer zephyr that deemed itself a hurricane, it is Conrad Wiegand. [5]
- As if the unpleasant people who won't mind their own business were confined to the classes you mention! [4]
- Her dress was torn and blood-stained, her grey hair had come loose from the ribbands and crescent that should have confined it; the worthy matron had become a Megaera and shrieked to the men: "Kill the dogs! [10]
- I think I told you she had a prostrating week of tonsilitis a month ago; she has remained very feeble ever since, and confined to the bed of course, but we allow ourselves to believe she will regain the lost ground in another month. [5]
- I was confined to bed a week,--a dreary week. [14]
- More than a thousand times an hour, between a hundred and fifty and two hundred thousand times a week, he has to lift the bars of the cage in which his breathing organs are confined, to save himself from asphyxia. [6]
- For lighter misdemeanours the offender was confined to the house or the court-yard. [10]
- They showed us the noisome cell where the celebrated "Iron Mask"--that ill-starred brother of a hardhearted king of France--was confined for a season before he was sent to hide the strange mystery of his life from the curious in the dungeons of Ste. [5]
- Till midday on the nineteenth, the activity--the eager talk, running to and fro, and dispatching of adjutants--was confined to the Emperor's headquarters. [2]
- The coming of the Man from Outside acted on the confined elements of her nature like the shutter of a camera. [11]
- His argument to the local authorities was that I had no rights, that I am a murderer and a mutineer, and confined to the island, though not on parole. [11]
- She was confined the 4th, and died the 12th. [3]
- Mrs.______, confined on the 14th of June, was comfortable until the 18th, when symptoms of puerperal fever were manifest. [3]
- A writer in the "New York Medical and Physical Journal" for October, 1829, in speaking of the occurrence of puerperal fever, confined to one man's practice, remarks, "We have known cases of this kind occur, though rarely, in New York. [3]
- In place of that, I had the worried, confined, oppressed, suffocated sense of being abed with my clothes on. [5]
- Hence it ensued, that what her mind has gathered of the real concerning them, was too exclusively confined to those tragic and terrible traits, of which, in listening to the secret annals of every rude vicinage, the memory is sometimes compelled to receive the impress. [14]
- Then it was that the cries of Madame Thibadeau, who was confined to her bed in the house opposite, were heard, and the crowd poured down towards the burning building. [11]
- Gould & Curry stock paid heavy dividends--a rare thing, and an experience confined to the dozen or fifteen claims located on the "main lead," the "Comstock. [5]
- They were all so fond of an old pied cock, that one year, when he was confined, though still in view, they were constantly assembled close to the trellice-walls of his prison, and would not suffer a japanned peacock to touch them. [1]
- Persons who are shut up in that way, confined to their chambers, sometimes to their beds, have a very small amount of vital expenditure, and wear out very little of their living substance. [6]
- During the recent session of court, ten men had been confined in this narrow space, without room enough for them to lie down together. [4]
- He did not see this patient after the 20th, being confined to the house, and very sick from the wound just mentioned, from this time until the 3d of April. [3]
- Presently he had saved up quite a repertoire of brilliancies; and after that he confined himself to repeating these and ceased to originate any more, lest he might injure his reputation by an unlucky effort. [5]
- If I remember rightly no public drinking saloons were allowed in the kingdom by Brigham Young, and no private drinking permitted among the faithful, except they confined themselves to "valley tan. [5]
- Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. [7]
- They had been rather closely confined for some days, and the weather being warm, they strolled a long distance. [12]
- She wore a purple dress of fine, almost transparent stuff, that was confined with a gold belt and straps. [10]
- But I confined public religious teaching to the churches and the Sunday-schools, permitting nothing of it in my other educational buildings. [5]
- This infidelity to popular government and unbelief in any good results to come from it are not, unfortunately, confined to the English essayists. [4]
- He was a pious man, and of as honest a heart as I have known, albeit narrow and confined, which sprang perhaps from his provincial practice and his theological cutting and trimming. [11]
- Melancholic and insane persons are confined, or commit suicide. [1]
- If he could pass muster anywhere during his early novitiate it would be in small inns and on the road; so to these places we confined ourselves. [5]
- Mrs._____ was confined on the 7th of May, at 5 o'clock, P. M., after a natural labor of six hours. [6]
- Mrs.______ was confined on the 7th of May, at 5 o'clock, P. M., after a natural labor of six hours. [3]
- Mrs._____ , confined on the 14th of June, was comfortable until the 18th, when symptoms of puerperal fever were manifest. [6]
- Mrs._____ was confined on the 10th of June (four weeks after Mrs. C.), at 11 A. M., after a natural, but somewhat severe labor of five hours. [6]
- Mrs.______ was confined on the 10th of June (four weeks after Mrs. C.), at 11 A. M., after a natural, but somewhat severe labor of five hours. [3]
- I left the old scarecrow conspicuously flaunting above the old vines; and by this means I hope to keep the attention of the birds confined to that side of the garden. [4]
- Presently, from an officer who had been captured as he was setting free a fire-raft upon the river to run among the boats of our fleet, I heard that Doltaire had been confined in the Intendance from a wound given by a stupid sentry. [11]
- A pied variety of the raven, with the head, breast, abdomen, and parts of the wings and tail- feathers white, is confined to the Feroe Islands. [1]
- But the breast of the Polyplectron is obscurely coloured, and the ocelli are not confined to the tail-feathers. [1]
- Before the middle of the afternoon she decided against ratchets altogether, and confined herself to knobs, neatly set in the door-trim. [8]
- If the realm of human knowledge were confined to abstract reasoning, then having subjected to criticism the explanation of "power" that juridical science gives us, humanity would conclude that power is merely a word and has no real existence. [2]
- To say nothing of fiery projectiles sent into the room, even by the best wood, from the explosion of gases confined in its cells, the brands are continually dropping down, and coals are being scattered over the hearth. [4]
- This scrip is not going to circulate over an extensive range of country, but will be confined chiefly to the vicinity of the canal. [7]
- The Koh-i-noor did not favor us with his company for a day or two, being confined to his chamber, it was said, by a slight feverish, attack. [6]
- This office is not confined to my district, but pertains to the whole State; so that Colonel Baker has an equal right with myself to be heard concerning it. [7]
- Their work has not been confined to their professional duties, as a few instances will illustrate. [6]
- There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it. [5]
- And science is no longer confined to the physical but has invaded the social kingdom, is able to weave a juster fabric into the government of peoples. [9]
- But the reading need not be confined to the classics nor to the master-pieces of literature. [4]
- Susan had been my friend, as had her brother Perry, and Lucia, Perry's wife: they made no secret of the fact that they deplored in me what they were pleased to call plutocratic obsessions, nor had their disapproval always been confined to badinage. [9]
- The Divinity, who must be in every place, and must see and hear everything, cannot be confined within walls. [10]
- John didn't know much about drinking; his experience of it was confined to sweet cider; yet he had already set himself up as a reformer, and joined the Cold Water Band. [4]
- He did not move the paper; perhaps it did not seem worth while, and in Keokuk he confined himself to commercial printing. [5]
- He had a mental neuralgia, a great deal worse in many respects than tic douloureux confined to the face. [6]
- I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses. [14]
- The animal was led in by two stout ponies, closely confined by straps to prevent his sudden and dangerous tricks of shoulder-hitting and foot-striking. [6]
- Mrs._____ , confined June 17th, at 5 o'clock, A. M., was doing well until the morning of the 19th. [6]
- Whether or not it is sui generis, confined to this disease, or produced in some others, as, for instance, erysipelas, I need, not stop to inquire. [3]
- 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]
- The genus Scarabaeus is what I have chiefly confined myself to, and ought to have studied exclusively. [6]
- The transparent zone is represented by the outermost white zone, confined to the upper end of the disc. [1]
- In this Chapel is a marble chest, in which, they told us, were the ashes of St. John; and around it was wound a chain, which, they said, had confined him when he was in prison. [5]
- Nor is the influence of fashion confined to any particular thing or class of things; it is just as strong on one subject as another. [7]
- I supposed the industry was confined to that little unnumerous upper layer. [5]
- The great incident in the old jailer's life had been the rescue of a well-known citizen who was confined on a charge of misuse of public money. [4]
- We stood reverently in that place; so did we also in the Mamertine Prison, where he was confined, where he converted the soldiers, and where tradition says he caused a spring of water to flow in order that he might baptize them. [5]
- While she was ill, I left her to visit Mrs. L., one of the ladies who was confined on 6th. [3]
- I shouldn't care if the illustration was sometimes confined to an initial letter and a tail-piece. [8]
- He felt as if powers till then confined within him had been liberated, and that strange lightness did not again leave him. [2]
- Then"--he smiled ironically--"then I was made prisoner by the French frigates, and have been closely confined ever since, against every decent principle of warfare. [11]
- After that night, I was confined to my bed for a week; but as soon as I could get about, I went to the dead-house books and got the number of the house which Adler had died in. [5]
- Then he confined himself to condemning with harsh words her perverse spirit and worldly nature, and threatening her with the vengeance of Heaven. [10]
- Pulcheria must lead him through the viridarium into the dining-room; he enjoyed his meal, and his cross, wrinkled old face lighted up amazingly as he glanced round at his feminine associates; only Eudoxia was absent, confined to her room by some slight ailment. [10]
- Everything that reminded him of his past was repugnant to him, and so in his relations with that former circle he confined himself to trying to do his duty and not to be unfair. [2]
- If they confined him closely, and kept a strict guard upon him, they might hold him prisoner, but if he could by any means escape, he would surely wander back to that place, or die upon the road. [12]
- The stiff, fashionable high Spanish ruff no longer confined his handsome head with its floating golden locks. [10]
- She had confined herself, however, to asking for permission to give the men cigarettes and slippers, dates and bread, and bags of lentils for soup. [11]
- So, she confined herself to an elaborate letter, written in admirable English and inspired by most noble sentiments. [11]
- She then perceived Hermas; the blood left her lips, with a violent effort she tore her slender hands out of the loops that confined them, covering her face with them, and fled to the door. [10]
- Tradition says that here the Saviour was confined just previously to the crucifixion. [5]
- It was something he felt which should not be confined to the knowledge of any limited circle. [4]
- The reason they have not made more progress is that they have usually confined their individual efforts to one man; they are now organizing for a general campaign. [4]
- At least he had heard talking in the entry of the second story, where usually it was even more noiseless than in his lodgings in the third, since it was tenanted only by old Ursel, who was now confined to her bed. [10]
- The lonely rooms grew too confined for him. [10]
- It is extravagant grandiloquence confined to a newspaper about the size of a double letter sheet. [5]
- Like the able general she was, Mrs. Constable kept her communications open, and her acquaintance was by no means confined to the city of her nativity. [9]
- The coachman arrived from down-town now with the news that our physician was ill and confined to his bed. [5]
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