Crossword-Solution: STRAITENS 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

When the rhyme comes too thick upon us, it straitens the expression; we are thinking of the close when we should be employed in adorning the thought.

And there is no good thing in thee, even as saith the poet of the like of thee, 'Yellowness, tincturing her tho' nowise sick or sorry, * Straitens my hapless heart and makes my head sore ache; An thou repent not, Soul! I'll punish thee with kissing[FN#385] * Her lower face that shall mine every grinder break!' And when she ended her lines, quoth her master, 'Sit thee down, this much sufficeth!'"—And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.

And these are the bridegroom’s gifts; Anguish that straitens the breath, Shame, and the weeping of mothers, And the suckling dead at the breast, White breast that a long sob lifts; And the dumb dead mouth, which saith, “How long, and how long, my brothers?” And wrath which endures not rest, And the pains of death.

The only real effects of a general rise of prices are these: first, it straitens people of fixed incomes, who suffer as purchasers, but who have no gain to correspond; and secondly, it gives an extra profit to fixed capital created before the rise happened.

Reader, more rhymes Will not waste in shadowing forth their form: For other need no straitens, that in this I may not give my bounty room.