Strait

Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Too strait and low our cottage doors.

Some certain edicts and some strait decrees.

The straitest sect of our religion.

To make your strait circumstances yet straiter.

I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait,
And so ingrateful, you deny me that.

He brought him through a darksome narrow strait
To a broad gate all built of beaten gold.

Honor travels in a strait so narrow
Where one but goes abreast.

We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad.

A dark strait of barren land.

For I am in a strait betwixt two.

Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever.

Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts.