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    confines


    1. “Hardly!” Johnny paced away from her in the small cramped confines of the steel elevator they were in


    2. Once out of the confines of the body, your thought process becomes capable of unlimited access in space


    3. Beyond the confines of earth-time, way out beyond the fringes of the universe


    4. Aware at first of only my own shuffle and ache, I gradually began to distinguish other movements and routines within the close confines of these bare walls


    5. Beyond the confines of earth-time, way out beyond the fringes of the universe where dark matter falls forever, Smith thought about nothing, taking slow but gigantic steps towards origin, and in thinking, even on a universal scale, Smith began to acquire the very first trappings of personality


    6. have been leaving the confines of Jodechi


    7. safely within their confines


    8. Matt could hear him softly chanting in the confines


    9. After an hour he broke free from the confines of the


    10. even extends out beyond the confines of your skin

    11. from the confines of his body, and spiralled down


    12. Huff retreated into the confines


    13. He would love to stop and have a long cold pint of cider, letting the close confines of old wood and brass wrap him up like a corpse in a coffin, somewhere to rest and sleep, but he has to get home


    14. friendly confines of the park


    15. Jack screamed and rushed out of the alien laboratory as fast as he could, only to find himself lost within the confines of Nevermore Forest


    16. to lunch, opting for the solitary confines of the janitors’ breakroom


    17. confines of Roman’s small living room slash bedroom before


    18. In the small chamber the air was dry and musty, the confines tight and


    19. Now, beyond the confines of LeCynic's mind the man would never be thought of again


    20. Where no bank notes are circulated under £10 value, as in London, paper money confines itself very much to the circulation between the dealers

    21. They get abandoned by publishers and are left to the confines of history


    22. To dream that you are a vagrant suggests that you are trying to escape from the confines of social expectations


    23. Being in the moment gives you the power to see beyond the normal confines of your mind


    24. Even leaving the stony confines of the Keep and seeking out fresh morning air could not alleviate the festering frustration


    25. soldiers, needed was a panic about a possible dragon - one which, since she spotted no shadows in the heavens, could well have been one restricted to the overly tired confines of her mind


    26. That is, they taught and practiced moving awareness out of the limited confines of the mind, and into the limitless Tao


    27. establishment of any manufacture of such commodities for distant sale, and confines the industry of her colonists in this way to such coarse and household manufactures as a private family commonly makes for its own use, or for that of some of its neighbours in the same province


    28. Great Britain, too, as she confines to her own market some of the most important productions of the colonies, so, in compensation, she gives to some of them an advantage in that market, sometimes by imposing higher duties upon the like productions when imported from other countries, and sometimes by giving bounties upon their importation from the colonies


    29. It not only excludes as much as possible all other countries from one particular market, but it confines as much as possible the colonies to one particular market; and the difference is very great between being excluded from one particular market when all others are open, and being confined to one particular market when all others are shut up


    30. There are literally no confines to it

    31. Towards the end he had been at one with a god, perhaps the only god; an entity beyond machine and organic, but more importantly beyond the confines of time


    32. This morning it’s hard to see with the snow falling, but he built this stone house within the confines of a gorge formed by Bear Run


    33. The observation dome at least gave the sense of being away from the confines of the ship


    34. As the demons stepped back, bright lights shimmered up to hold the captives within the circles’ confines


    35. confines of a checkout, past the obstacles of


    36. We were loaded like pack-horses and we could hardly move out bodies in the confines of the trench as we had so much kit and were so packed together


    37. “There is no rule that says I cannot do so alone, within the confines of the camp


    38. “I respect a man who is decisive and follows through - as long as he confines it to his own household


    39. man who spent weeks at a time in the claustrophobic confines of a vessel like the McLuhan


    40. painfully aware of their claustrophobic confines, and bluntly reminded of their purpose

    41. Or perhaps most common of all, some insidious disease or germ that could sometimes spread in the confines of a ship and take its crew without much effort


    42. ‘We are beyond the confines of language,’ Roidon murmured


    43. ‘We are beyond the confines of time


    44. Human sacrifices were offered to avert threatening calamities, and even as the troops invested the capital, two young slave girls had their throats quietly cut in the confines of the palace, their blood being poured out as a libation to the gods to act against the invading white man


    45. Hidden in the shadows of the thickening mist, Grindel watched them leave the confines of Brockenhurst Forest, and once he was satisfied that they were well on their way, turned back towards the sett, ready to report to Skelda


    46. The words eluded me, they simply banished themselves within the confines of my brain, to rather confuse me than to help me


    47. On their stumbling walk, he had told her about the secret chambers located beneath Fire Rock, and how he wanted to spend what little time remaining to him in their confines


    48. Having journeyed such a long distance since leaving the safe confines of Brightness's sett, he felt totally worn out


    49. I could feel the heat of the body laying against my back in the confines of the sleeping bag, smiling to myself in a smug, self-satisfied way, recalling the fry-up Jill had done us, the talk, the monumental amount of beer we had drunk


    50. I could smell my need in the confines of the closet, and I could smell him and the metallic tang of my blood














































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    "confines" definitions

    a bounded scope