Both Uses of
circumscribe
in
Sister Carrie
- She was now a thin, though rugged, women of twenty-seven, with ideas of life colored by her husband's and fast hardening into narrower conceptions of pleasure and duty than had ever been hers in a thoroughly circumscribed youth.†
Chpt 2 *
- The more circumscribed became her state, the more entrancing seemed this other.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
to restrict something within set limits; or draw a circle around or surround