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Sentences starting with limits

Limits of Natural Selection, 'North American Review,' Oct. 1870, p. [1]

Sentences ending with limits

The art of true wisdom is to keep within limits. [10]
It was on the Tiber that I met the young maiden who drew me once more into that inner circle which surrounded young womanhood with deadly peril for me, if I dared to pass its limits. [6]
We insist on the policy that shall restrict it to its present limits. [7]
At this hour the original four occupied the table for the second time, and endurance has its limits. [9]
That's clear outside the limits. [5]
Indeed, strictly speaking, the Confederacy then owned no country at all; the States respectively owned the country within their limits, and some of them owned territory beyond their strict State limits. [7]
If you wanted ten millions, I could understand that--it's inside the human limits. [5]
I think I realize that caste does not exist and cannot exist except by common consent of the masses outside of its limits. [5]
In the matter of courage we all have our limits. [5]
How can they live in their narrow limits? [4]

Short sentences using limits

Cultivation has its limits. [4]

Sentences containing limits two or more times

That for all the purposes of this act, the jurisdictional limits of Washington are extended to all parts of the District of Columbia not now included within the present limits of Georgetown. [7]
Within these limits alone are their opinions and judgments valuable; outside of these limits they grope and are lost --usually without knowing it. [5]

More example sentences with the word limits in them

Productions without talent, without spirit, without discrimination, flat and pitiful eulogies, exaggerations surpassing the limits of the most robust faith, invectives against such as dared to doubt the dogmas which had been proclaimed, or catalogues of remedies; of such materials is it composed! [3]
But even their wisdom has its limits, and they will hang Mr. Rhodes if they ever catch him. [5]
The letters the winged messengers had brought were read aloud from the windows of the town-hall, and the courage of the populace, pressed to the extremest limits of endurance, flickered up anew and helped them bear their misery. [10]
Its very eccentricities were within the limits of good form. [9]
Moment after moment went, and though I had danced beyond reasonable limits, I still seemed to get new strength, as I have heard men say, in fighting, they 'come to their second wind. [11]
This little dwelling-place was just outside the village limits, and the widow who lived there had to carry her water from the nearest irrigation ditch. [13]
Mrs. Eddy reflected upon that; so she limits the President's term to a year. [5]
There are limits to the privileges of the elect, even in heaven. [5]
She had sought to remove comparisons, too, from the limits of her vision; to cherish and keep alive, indeed, such regrets as she had, but to make no new ones. [9]
He desired Hermas to pass the night in his dwelling, as the scanty limits of the cave left but narrow room for the lad. [10]
It is impossible to eradicate the passions; but we must strive to direct them to a noble aim, and it is therefore necessary that everyone should be able to satisfy his passions within the limits of virtue. [2]
But little of this was to be seen in the western limits of the parish of St. Ouen's. [11]
He had held this army cheap before, but his pride and confidence in it knew no limits now. [5]
They believed that they had brought the transcendental within the grasp of intelligent sense, and that their empty speculations had carried them far beyond the narrow limits of the Ancients. [10]
In the afternoon there were many more sights to be viewed, but they were back in the hotel again by half-past four, because Ephraim's Wilderness leg had its limits of endurance. [9]
The authority of the other sovereigns has limits, hers has none, none whatever. [5]
The qualities abide; the men who exhibit them have now more, now less, and pass away; the qualities remain on another brow.--All that respects the individual is temporary and prospective, like the individual himself, who is ascending out of his limits into a catholic existence. [6]
We collected within the limits of this bit of earth everything which can delight the senses; not a single one is omitted in this narrow space, whose crowded maze of pleasures fairly impede freedom of movement. [10]
Skilfully, always within the limits of their intelligence, he outlined to his hearers his philosophy and proclaimed it as that of the world's oppressed. [9]
She had touched the limits of the endurable; her sordid little hopes had split into fragments. [11]
To die within the limits of Benares is another; but that is a risky one, because you might be out of town when your time came. [5]
The smallest and the largest pupil was free, for he was permitted to be wholly and entirely his natural self, so long as he kept within the limits imposed by the existing laws. [10]
The renown of the fresh, healthful life and the able tuition of the pupils spread far beyond the limits of Thuringia. [10]
After looking at the Alps, I felt that my mind had been stretched beyond the limits of its elasticity, and fitted so loosely on my old ideas of space that I had to spread these to fit it. [6]
It is feared that it will not be realistic enough, that it will be too realistic, that it will be insincere as to the common aspects of life, that it will not sufficiently idealize life to keep itself within the limits of true art. [4]
Modern, science has taught us this much, at least, that we have by no means fathomed the limits even of a transcendent personality. [9]
She had had talking dolls before, and dolls that closed their eyes; she recognized this one, indeed, as a sort of super-doll, but her little mind was modern, too, and set no limits on what might be accomplished. [9]
When he had sufficiently recovered from his delight, he rose, and with his arms a-kimbo, achieved a kind of demon-dance round the kennel, just without the limits of the chain, driving the dog quite wild. [12]
In the Revolutionary struggle few of the States among the Old Thirteen had more of the battle-fields of the country within their limits than New Jersey. [7]
Let me briefly recapitulate a few of our acquisitions in Physiology, due in large measure to our new instruments and methods of research, and at the same time indicate the limits which form the permanent or the temporary boundaries of our knowledge. [3]
He supposes a primary and not easily definable Being, by which the whole world is governed, and in which, though in himself infinite and without limits, everything material and circumscribed has its foundation. [10]
Here, where the present retires into the background, the thoughtful spirit finds no limits however remote. [10]
Something was going on between these two and her husband's niece was far outside the narrow limits of her loving kindness. [10]
In the limits of this brief address I can only in outline speak of certain tendencies and practices which are affecting this production and this distribution. [4]
They were fond of him, grateful to him, treating him with a frank camaraderie that had in it not the slightest touch of condescension, but Ditmar would have been the first to recognize that there were limits to the intimacy. [9]
They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. [5]
Thirty centuries do not seem to have made any very great difference in the extreme limits of life. [6]
She detested the narrow limits in which her lot was cast, she hated poverty. [5]
Tossing on the mattress, Kate Marcy enacted over again incident after incident of her past life, events natural to an existence which had been largely devoid of self-pity, but which now, clearly enough, tested the extreme limits of suffering. [9]
By some strangely lucky accident--an accident not likely to happen twice in a century--he was asked no question outside of the narrow limits of his drill. [5]
Ephraim had even looked up the law to see if he was eligible, and found that he was, since Coniston had no post-office, and was within the limits of delivery of the Brampton office. [9]
He offered his large stone building just outside the capital limits, rent-free, and it was gladly accepted. [5]
Life there has its joys and sorrows and passions, its ambitions, and heart-burnings, to be sure; a most absorbing novel could be written about it, and the author need not go beyond the city limits or approach the state-house or the Pelican Hotel. [9]
A character which is thus variable within the limits of a single group can have no great taxonomic value. [1]
Within limits everybody is more than willing to help the world along, if only they can be convinced that what they are asked to do will help. [9]
He showed no inclination to fix the limits of his walk, and made no protest as she drove under the stone archway at the entrance of Fairview. [9]
When I was in Hannibal, before I had scarcely stepped out of the town limits, nothing could have convinced me that I would starve as soon as I got a little way from home.... [5]
To me the ideal and its embodiment within the limits of the natural, according to the models of Phidias, Polycletus, and Myron is the highest goal, but he and his co-workers seek objects nearer at hand. [10]
The whole five hundred are thinkers, and they are all capable thinkers --but only within the narrow limits of their specialized trainings. [5]
If you fight his dogma, he will do battle for it stoutly; if you let him alone, he will very probably explain its extravagances, if it has any, and tame it into reasonable limits. [6]
They hedged and hemmed it in to the narrowest limits of necessity. [7]
So though the Hebrew prisoner was tortured, it was never beyond the limits of the endurable, and he had the pleasure of rendering, by his own great strength, many a service to his weaker companions. [10]
But some things have their limits. [5]
True, I now have little reason to fear the avenging goddess who pursues the criminal, but all the more the other Nemesis, who limits the excess of happiness. [10]
Agapitus the Cappadocian had in his youth been a warrior; he had hardly passed the limits of middle age, and was a vigilant captain of his congregation. [10]
But lately there had been moments in which she had owned to herself that she might be carried away into overstepping these limits. [10]
There is a great world of ideas we cannot voluntarily recall,--they are outside the limits of the will. [3]
It is the great neutral centre of the Continent, where the fiery enthusiasms of the South and the keen fanaticisms of the North meet at their outer limits, and result in a compound which neither turns litmus red nor turmeric brown. [6]
Hence they would go forth to Altenperg, inasmuch as it was the nearest to arrive at of any township without the limits of the city. [10]
People are always glad to, get hold of anything which limits their responsibility. [6]
So thought a fugitive who fled day and night through the Bayuda desert, into the sandy wastes, beyond whose utmost limits lay Wady Halfa, where the English were. [11]
She had hitherto found no difficulty in keeping within the limits of what was becoming. [10]
I have no doubt that it would become extinct, for all time to come, if we but readopted the policy of the fathers, by restricting it to the limits it has already covered, restricting it from the new Territories. [7]
The Doctor drove Dick forty miles at a stretch that night, out of the limits of the State. [6]
I could not depend on having a Latinist in the right place every time; so, to make things safe, I ordered that in the future the chamois must not be hunted within limits of the camp with any other weapon than the forefinger. [5]
His love probably could not shield her from mortification in a society which, though indefinable in its limits and code, is an entity more vividly felt than the government of the United States. [4]
When our Federal Constitution was adopted, we owned no territory beyond the limits or ownership of the States, except the territory northwest of the River Ohio and east of the Mississippi. [7]
The idea of confiding to her the secret which filled her with happy dread was far from her thoughts; but love had both increased her vanity tenfold, and confined it within narrower limits. [10]
How much more complex than this is the game of war, which occurs under certain limits of time, and where it is not one will that manipulates lifeless objects, but everything results from innumerable conflicts of various wills! [2]
Any preliminary details coming within the above rules you are at liberty to make at your discretion; but you are in no case to swerve from these rules, or to pass beyond their limits. [7]
And it was characteristic of the new interest that it transcended the limits of the parish of St. John's, touched upon the greater affairs to which that parish--if their protest prevailed--would now be dedicated. [9]
Next, the rough carousing must stop, drinking must be brought within proper and strictly defined limits, and discipline must take the place of disorder. [5]
The heart's vision cannot unite them stereoscopically into a single image, if the divergence passes certain limits. [6]
Yet art neither can nor will be satisfied with snatches of what is close at hand; but you are late-born, sons of a time when the two great tendencies of art have nearly reached the limits of what is attainable to them. [10]
But this was beyond the limits of his audacity, and he had to content himself with such cautious observations as could be made at a distance. [6]
It would be beyond my limits, and quite beyond my knowledge, even to name the innumerable points of structure in which man agrees with the other Primates. [1]
I made the best of the item that the circumstances permitted, and felt that if I were not confined within rigid limits by the presence of the reporters of the other papers I could add particulars that would make the article much more interesting. [5]
What has since been formed into the States of Maine, Kentucky and Tennessee, was, I believe, within the limits of or owned by Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina. [7]
It may not be perfect, for there are limits to human powers of endurance, but it is the best we can do. [4]
A duet to be agreeable must be to a certain extent confidential, and the dinner-table duet admits of little except generalities, and generalities between two have their limits of entertainment. [4]
There are somewhat awkward limits to true understanding as yet, but that sympathetic service which you render to both peoples, with a conscientious striving for impartiality, tempers even the wind of party warfare to the shorn lamb of political opposition. [11]
Our soldiers were assaulted, bridges were burned, and railroads torn up within her limits, and we were many days at one time without the ability to bring a single regiment over her soil to the capital. [7]
That the poorest and most thinly populated countries would be greatly benefited by the opening of good roads, and in the clearing of navigable streams within their limits, is what no person will deny. [7]
Alice was greatly amused with Harry and listened so seriously to his romancing that he exceeded his usual limits. [5]
In his eyes, also, Countess Cordula this evening had exceeded the limits even of the liberty which by common consent she was permitted above others. [10]
Many details are also given which would have carried the paper written for the Society beyond the customary limits of such tributes to the memory of its deceased members. [6]
And we must add to all this that an intellectual and moral power has been put forth from England clear round the globe, and felt beyond the limits of the English tongue. [4]
I am only a woman, and yet I will show him that there are limits even to his malignity. [10]
Would it be a surprise to you, if he had carried his acuteness in some particular case like the one I am to mention beyond the prescribed limits? [6]
The Archives are a scientific collection, and my 'Manual of National History,' written in Dutch, hardly gets beyond the limits of my own country. [6]
But mind this: the more we observe and study, the wider we find the range of the automatic and instinctive principles in body, mind, and morals, and the narrower the limits of the self-determining conscious movement. [6]

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