Until that time when the meaning of it all shall flash out upon the world, the race will be hidebound in callousness and in faint-hearted melancholy.
Is it not possible that you are not yet awake, or, God pity you, that you are hidebound in the dogmatism of your bit of thinking.
All that when I'm cracking jokes and arguing with old Whaley over some of his hidebound Bible views about the end of the world.
It is more free and easy, not so hidebound and overrun with hypocrisy.
We are in a narrow, hidebound community up here and we've got to watch where we step.
Yet in the next year we find him writing to Arnauld in earnest protest against the hideboundorthodoxy of the Church.
Not depraved, certainly, unless you insist on judging it by a hidebound ethic.
He was not hideboundto one plan as some men are, but could keep two or three possibilities in mind and follow up whichever suited him.
He might have seen what the point was; but no, he was too old, too hidebound in religion and conventional ideas--he never would.
The average radical is as hidebound by mere terms as the man devoid of all ideas.
The words "reading but to curtail a tedious hour and altogether hidebound with affection to great men's fancies," refer to Shakespeare in the capacity of reader to the Earl of Southampton.
American officials are not so hidebound as the home-made article; and the idea of my friend, neglected and contemned in England, was welcomed and adopted in the United States, where the principal penitentiaries now run their own newspapers.
