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Example sentences for "bounds"

Lexicographically close words:
boundis; boundless; boundlesse; boundlessly; boundlessness; boune; bountee; bounteous; bounteously; bountie
  1. The dog was then artfully led on from one accomplishment to another, much within the ordinary range which bounds the instruction of learned animals.

  2. You cannot fancy anything so tragic, But she is capable of executing, When once provok'd in point of love and honour Beyond her bounds of temper.

  3. May transport thee, it shall not me, beyond The bounds of honour.

  4. The grain within due bounds to keep, Their Maker licenses the sheep The leaves excessive to retrench.

  5. Its sociality could not be pent within the bounds of the actual.

  6. And the clearer this conclusion is the result of faith, the surer the bounds will be just such, as to save from losing all by a headlong precipitancy.

  7. Thus is missed the conclusion, if He can endure to see the stream of evil flow on age after age; then discretion would set some bounds to our zeal, to see all evil rectified.

  8. The southern district of Spain, within the bounds of Andalusia, extending from Seville to Cadiz, is still a mystery as in days of yore.

  9. Andalusian barb on which he is mounted, with a coat as sleek as silk, as it bounds forward, swift as the wind, over the turf.

  10. It throws a little poetry over life to know that one being is cherishing a perfectly moral and carefully toned-down attachment for another, which will last for years, but never exceed the bounds of a smile and a squeeze of the hand.

  11. It is her task to make the pigeon fall madly in love with her, and to keep him so, without overstepping the bounds of conventional propriety.

  12. Far beyond what I had regarded as the bounds of civilization, it is held as one of the mysteries of a fallen world; accompanying the home missionary on his wanderings, and preceding the footsteps of the Tract Society.

  13. The newspaper may be needed in society, but how quickly it drops out of mind when one goes beyond the bounds of what is called civilization.

  14. Be sure that you only, in setting no bounds in your attacks on religion, do yourself a vast mischief with the person in question.

  15. Do not say so in a loud tone," he replied laughingly; "her joy would know no bounds if she could believe it was in her power to inspire you with jealousy.

  16. In three bounds she reached the stoat, who was perfectly prepared now to fight an elephant for possession of the half-rabbit he had found.

  17. A few urgent bounds carried her to the mouth of the cave.

  18. Half a dozen great bounds took him through the garden.

  19. Hast thou not seen, force without end, immortal rhythm and rhyme, Desire impelling me beyond the bounds of Time?

  20. One told her story to the grass-green hill: "Years and years gone my husband went from me, (Upon the breeze my laughter bounds and blows!

  21. In those old days, the lord of the manor exercised justice within the bounds of his territory by means of his agent; but what was called justice by these men was generally great injustice.

  22. You may easily imagine how the unfortunate foreign word suffers at her hands; or rather, I should say, you can't imagine it, for it far exceeds the bounds of the wildest imagination.

  23. These bowers are sacred to the page Of philosophic lore; Within these bounds no envies rage-- I've shut my garden door.

  24. This drunkenness of youth is not only tolerated, but even pleases, if kept within certain bounds of discretion and decency.

  25. These bounds are the point which it is difficult for the drunken man himself to find out; and there it is that the experience of a friend may not only serve, but save him.

  26. Nor would he by any means limit the operations of true redeeming grace to the bounds of Christendom.

  27. But it was not quite easy to see where the bounds of this latitude were to be drawn, unless they were to be left to the individual conscience.

  28. The wide interest felt in the ponderous Bangorian controversy, as it dragged on its tedious course, is in itself ample evidence of the desire to see some satisfactory adjustment of the respective bounds of authority and reason.

  29. Neither the point of time, nor the spot of earth, in which we physically live, bounds our rational and intellectual enjoyments.

  30. According to the most accurate plan of the town and the battle (Page's), the monument stands where the southwest angle of the redoubt was, and the whole of the redoubt was between the monument and the street that bounds it on the west.

  31. I have not allowed myself to be transported into the realm of fancy, nor have I claimed for my work anything which lies beyond the bounds of proof.

  32. Their speech is usually limited to a single sound or remark, which is replied to in the same manner; and to suppose that their conversations are elaborate or of a highly social character, is to go beyond the bounds of reason.

  33. And are there no fixed laws founded in the nature of things which ordain bounds to the fell spirit of revenge, the mad fury of domination, and the insatiable thirst of cupidity?

  34. He should have drawn different conclusions; and from that uncertainty, he should have wished never to have gone beyond those bounds which they knew were safe.

  35. He believed the uncertainty here mentioned existed, and therefore it had been concluded to be best to put the contingent articles together in one sum, in order to give bounds to the discretion of the Department.

  36. Will the gentleman say, that the direct tax was laid in order to enlarge the bounds of patronage?

  37. As natural bounds to the South, are the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Mississippi, and the world at some future day cannot hold them from us.

  38. They have been charged with having transgressed the bounds of Judicial duty, and become the apostles of a political sect.

  39. Is it not more probable that these gentlemen, knowing they cannot expect national support, will keep themselves within the bounds of their funds, if they mean to carry on the institution?

  40. Symmes and his associates, that part of a tract of land, the boundaries whereof are ascertained by a survey executed in conformity to the act of Congress, entitled 'An act for ascertaining the bounds of a tract of land purchased by J.

  41. The Baroness looked at her daughter in unmitigated astonishment; such indifference passed the bounds of all belief.

  42. Bounds must be set to the insolence of that young man; his pretensions must be checked.

  43. Well, I certainly was favoured with some rather sharp observations from the chief; but there are bounds even to his jurisdiction and to the regard I owe to my position.

  44. This young man evidently pays you a degree of attention which oversteps the bounds of ordinary gallantry," he continued; "and you seem not only to suffer, but to encourage it.

  45. The first necessity was to put bounds upon man's natural and almost insatiable lust for vengeance.

  46. The women set no bounds to their taste for these concocted wines; but went on from one excess to another as long as the empire lasted.

  47. My wishes are but few, All easy to fulfil; I make the limits of my power The bounds unto my will.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bounds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    border; bound; boundary; circumference; circumscription; compass; confine; confinement; confines; continence; coordinates; discipline; environs; extent; extreme; extremity; field; fringe; frontier; jurisdiction; limit; limitation; limits; margin; moderation; outline; outskirts; pale; parameter; perimeter; periphery; precinct; prescription; proscription; purlieu; qualification; restraint; restriction; skirt; spread; bound; boundary; circumference; circumscription; compass; confine; confinement; confines; continence; coordinates; discipline; environs; extent; extreme; extremity; field; fringe; frontier; jurisdiction; limit; limitation; limits; margin; moderation; outline; outskirts; pale; parameter; perimeter; periphery; precinct; prescription; proscription; purlieu; qualification; restraint; restriction; skirt; spread