2513 examples of the limit in sentences

Time may yet vindicate the theory of the framers that the limit of democracy is the selection of true and tried representatives.

But from the back porch no eye could have encompassed the limit of his broad, swelling slopes of grain and grass.

The British Empire is very near the limit of its endurance of a kingly caste of Germans.

Aviators have gone up with two passengers and in monoplanes, too, but the limit of their stay aloft had never exceeded two hours, for the strain is very great.

The very excess of strained and unnatural incidents indicates that the popular palate was becoming cloyed; for a time the writers of fiction attempted to stimulate it by spicing the dish, but when the limit of mordancy was reached, a new diet became imperative.

Next morning he created "I." (which stands for Intelligence), carefully selected his Staff, arrayed them in tabs of appropriate hue, and told them to go the limit.

Under the act of the 24th of May last a loan of $5,000,000 was authorized, in order to meet the awards under the Florida treaty, which was negotiated at par with the Bank of the United States at 4-1/2 percent, the limit of interest fixed by the act.

She had been living up to the limit of her energies, and her case proved a grave one.

The undersigned can not acquiesce in the supposition that, because the agent of His Britannic Majesty thought proper in the proceedings before the commissioners to lay claim to all that portion of the State of Maine which lies north of a line running westerly from Mars Hill, and designated as the limit or boundary of the British claim, thereby the United States or the State of Maine ceased to have jurisdiction in the territory thus claimed.

"They think you vouched for me, and to-night they're going to raise the limit.

Taking the limit we have set, and enumerating the parts within the hoof from within outwards, we find them as follows: A. THE BONES.The lower portion of the second phalanx or os coronæ; the third phalanx, os pedis, or coffin bone; and the navicular or shuttle bone.

"These are about the limit.

"I think it's the limit," he went on.

Not in clumps and bunches, not in spots and patches, not in banks, meadows, acres, but inyes; for still it lifted beyond and beyond and beyond; the eye could not touch the limit of them, for the eye can touch only the limit of vision; and the lilies filled the whole sea-marsh, for that is the way spring comes to the sea-marshes.

Lashly is his old self in every respect, hard working to the limit, quiet, abstemious, and determined.

Officers innumerable, who had stayed in Kashmir until the limit of their leave, were struggling vainly to get on, and had got to Baramula only to find all transport in the hands of the State officials.

The inexorable flight of time brought us all too soon to the limit of our stay at Udaipur.

" The gallant captain again smothered an oath, evidently tried to the limit by the girl's cool indifference.

Many such instances appear in the early records, and when we find a New England family rejoicing in the name of "Navillus" we know that the limit has been reached, and while we cannot admire the attempt to disguise an ancient and honorable name, we are amused at the obvious transposition of "Sullivan".

A month passed, and then, just as her brothers were making up their minds that the limit had certainly been reached and her duty done, came a letter which gave a blow to their hopes.

The limit of tolerance is the variation either above or below the standard weight or fineness that a coin is allowed to have when it leaves the mint.

Clinton Hall, one of the largest buildings on the lower East Side, was secured, and for several weeks the rooms and hallways of the building and the street outside were crowded almost to the limit of safety with men and women strikers, anxious and perspiring "bosses," and busy, active associates of the Women's Trade Union League.

"If you can possibly strain a point, in some way, and wring a little more power out of the remaining engines" "We're straining them beyond the limit now, sir.

Thus the winter passed, and as the limit of the young man's vacation was near at hand, Wells wrote home pleading for more time, telling his friends how fast he was improving, and estimating that it would take at least six months more to restore him fully to his former health.

When the W.H. Willis pulled into White Horse, it was learned that the Flora had waited three days over the limit, and had departed only a few hours before.

2513 examples of  the limit  in sentences