Let them become as dust before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord straiten them.
Nor shall any of them straitenhis neighbour at any time.
For the days shall come upon thee: and thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass thee round and straiten thee on every side, 19:44.
When the obstructing Bodies are small, and only stop up Part of the Passage; and which may either easily elude the Hook, or straiten it by their Resistance, a Kind of Rings may be used, and made either solid or flexible.
He congratulates himself that "the stiff forms of conversation" had passed away; his charges against the older age are merely charges against the archaic and unfamiliar.
He told me he could not say but it might straiten him a little; but, however, it was my money, and I might want it more than he.
And straiten not thy wife, for I will have patience with thee till such time as thou shalt have dirhams to spare.
It is very kind in you, my dear, and I must always acknowledge it; but, however, I would not have you straiten yourself too much neither.
P: Lodge them where ye dwell, according to your wealth, and harass them not so as to straiten life for them.
No one can wish to straiten his chance of acquittal, or to inquire too curiously whether there be not a pretext for closing the door that now stands ajar.
When the wind that gives the progressive motion becomes stronger below than above, or above than below, the spout will be bent, and, the cause ceasing, straiten again.
And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters which the LORD thy God hath given thee; in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall straiten thee.
Las Torres therefore determined to seize these places, which were distant about fifteen miles from his camp, and so to straiten the town for provisions.
