All 7 Uses of
constrained
in
Bleak House
- I never underwent so much, both in body and mind, in the course of a walk with young people as from these unnaturally constrained children when they paid me the compliment of being natural.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- Now, come, come, you know, Mr. Smallweed," urges the trooper, constraining himself to speak as smoothly and confidentially as he can, holding the open letter in one hand and resting the broad knuckles of the other on his thigh, "a good lot of money has passed between us, and we are face to face at the present moment, and are both well aware of the understanding there has always been.†
Chpt 34-36
- I took such precautions as I could to hide from Charley that I had been crying, and I constrained myself to think of every sacred obligation that there was upon me to be careful and collected.†
Chpt 34-36
- "—Even in them I am shocked, for the credit of Englishmen, to be constrained to inform you that the party has not triumphed without being put to an enormous expense.†
Chpt 40-42
- He constrains himself to touch him.†
Chpt 46-48
- It is she who, at the core of all the constrained formalities and conventionalities of his life, has been a stock of living tenderness and love, susceptible as nothing else is of being struck with the agony he feels.†
Chpt 52-54
- Mrs. Rouncewell is constrained to admit that he is in the house.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(constrained) restricted or inhibited