All 9 Uses of
constrained
in
Middlemarch
- She was perfectly unconstrained and without irritation towards him now, and he was gradually discovering the delight there is in frank kindness and companionship between a man and a woman who have no passion to hide or confess.†
Chpt 1
- She did not want to deck herself with knowledge—to wear it loose from the nerves and blood that fed her action; and if she had written a book she must have done it as Saint Theresa did, under the command of an authority that constrained her conscience.†
Chpt 1
- You will have many lonely hours, Dorotheas, for I shall be constrained to make the utmost use of my time during our stay in Rome, and I should feel more at liberty if you had a companion.†
Chpt 1
- But I am constrained to take a view of the case which gives the preponderance to Mr. Farebrother's claims.†
Chpt 2 *
- In another minute he was in the library, and Dorothea was meeting him with her sweet unconstrained smile.†
Chpt 4
- While she constrained herself to lie still lest she should disturb him, her mind was carrying on a conflict in which imagination ranged its forces first on one side and then on the other.†
Chpt 5
- —had been the mould into which he had constrained his immense need of being something important and predominating.†
Chpt 6
- "But you do—you do make it harder to me," said Bulstrode constrained into a genuine, pleading cry.†
Chpt 7
- Set free by their absence from the intolerable necessity of accounting for her grief or of beholding their frightened wonder, she could live unconstrainedly with the sorrow that was every day streaking her hair with whiteness and making her eyelids languid.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(constrained) restricted or inhibited