straitening

And there the word used (stenochoroumenoi.) signifieth such a kind of straitening as doth infer a difficulty of drawing breath; that a man is so compressed that he cannot tell how to breathe: that is the native import of the word.

The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822

But economic straitening has clearly helped provide these alternative riches.

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Is the whole thing some elaborate, Kaufmanesque hoax: Phoenix and Affleck's attempt to escape the straitening vacuity of 21st century Hollywood cinema?

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But… but… if u start hunch-straitening now, u could make it by then.

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When my mother is out of breath and rests herself in an elbow – chair, I watch her winding her bright curls round her fingers, and straitening her waist, and nobody knows better than I do that she likes to look so well, and is proud of being so pretty.

David Copperfield 2007

Faith, or believing, consists in such an habitual frame of heart, and such actings of the soul, as are capable of degrees of straitening or enlargement, of strength and weakness.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

And if by “necessitated” you understand only the event of things, — that is, it is of necessity as to the event that they shall savingly believe who are effectually called, without the least straitening or necessitating their wills in their conversion, which are still acted suitably to their native liberty, — we close with that term also, and affirm that the calling here mentioned imports such an act of

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

What will be the issue of these things; whether it will be the deliverance of the church, or the desolation of the nation and straitening of the church; whether God will bring good out of them in this generation, or any other time, none knows: this makes it difficult.

Several Practical Cases of Conscience Resolved 1616-1683 1965

_ He means, that perhaps the cheapness is apparent only, and not real; or the bargain by straitening thee in thy business, may do thee more harm than good.

One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed C. A. Bogardus

When all the critical and straitening circumstances of that period are well considered, save that he was liable to natural and sinful infirmities, as all men are when in this life, and yet he was as little guilty in this way as any I ever knew or heard of, he was the liveliest and most engaging preacher to close with Christ, of any I ever heard.

The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony Thomas Houston