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One was forced to find the least offensive answer in every case, as each answer was so straited that One had to pick the One which generated the least revulsion. lgl
Austrian Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The right straited this back in the 70s subsequent to Nixon putting Powell on the Supreme Court.
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Their names I could report, if just occasion did not forbid it, in regard of the occasions following by them related, and because times heereafter shall not taxe them with reproofe; the lawes of pleasure being more straited now adayes (for the matters before revealed) then at that time they were, not onely to their yeares but to many much riper.
The Decameron 2004
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Noble Gentlemen, replyed Thorello (for in mine eye you seeme no lesse) that courtesie which you met with yester-night, I am to thanke Fortune for, more then you, because you were then straited by such necessity, as urged your acceptance of my poore Country house.
The Decameron 2004
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Of all the Sea Pens yet known, the first is one of the largest and most curious in its appearance; being of a beautiful silvery white, elegantly straited on each of the feather-like processes, with lines or streaks of the deepest black.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829 Various
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Queries, we should oftentimes be "straited for a Reply."
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In them the flesh is notably corrupt, the shape is changed, the eyen become round, the eyelids are revelled, the sight sparkleth, the nostrils are straited and revelled and shrunk.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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The cardiac muscle is different than both the skeletal muscle and the smooth muscle in appearance because it forms a mesh work rather than being just straited or scaled.
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Smooth muscles are not straited like skeletal muscles but have a rather smooth appearance because the filaments of the cells are very un-regular arrangement which causes it to have its smooth look.
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Smooth muscles are not straited like skeletal muscles but have a rather smooth appearance because the filaments of the cells are very un-regular arrangement which causes it to have its smooth look.
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