Both Uses of
strait
in
Jane Eyre
- I thought of the life that lay before me — YOUR life, sir — an existence more expansive and stirring than my own: as much more so as the depths of the sea to which the brook runs are than the shallows of its own strait channel.†
Chpt 25 *
- Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still: if you raved, my arms should confine you, and not a strait waistcoat — your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me: if you flew at me as wildly as that woman did this morning, I should receive you in an embrace, at least as fond as it would be restrictive.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(strait as in: Strait of Hormuz) a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water