Both Uses of
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Far from the Madding Crowd
- But there is a way some men have, rural and urban alike, for which the mind is more responsible than flesh and sinew: it is a way of curtailing their dimensions by their manner of showing them.†
Chpt 1-3
- The tune was not floating unhindered into the open air: it seemed muffled in some way, and was altogether too curtailed in power to spread high or wide.†
Chpt 1-3 *
Definition:
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(curtail) to stop or restrict something