"Confining" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... considerably fictitious, a part applies to indubitable pathological cases, and certain of them are confirmed elsewhere. That murderers, particularly women-murderers of children, often see their victims is well known to us criminalists. And for this reason the habit of confining prisoners in a dark cell for twenty-four hours on the anniversary of a crime must be pointed to as refined and thoroughly medival cruelty. I have repeatedly heard from people so tortured of the terror of their visions on such ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden
... France, hast thou yet more blood to cast away? Say, shall the currant of our right rome on, Whose passage vext with thy impediment, Shall leaue his natiue channell, and ore-swell With course disturb'd euen thy confining shores, Vnlesse thou let his siluer Water, keepe A ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... where troublesome people have no means of doing mischief. I could point out such a place presently, if I were asked—a place where she might be as safe as under lock and key, without the trouble and risk of confining her, and having to consider ...
— The Billow and the Rock • Harriet Martineau
... be made to the three lines of black numerals immediately above the day columns. Still confining our examinations to the lower divisions, the reader's attention is directed to these lines, as given in Tables VI, VII, IX, XI, XIII, XV, XVII, and XIX. As there are three numbers in each short column we ...
— Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices • Cyrus Thomas
... he observes, that he ranges from one subject to another, without confining himself to any particular task; and that he was employed one week upon one attempt, and the ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes - Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II • Samuel Johnson
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