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• to make your strait circumstances yet straiter
• Strait of Magellan
• Proceed no straiter 'gainst our uncle Gloucester
• Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts.
• Let no man, who owns a Providence, grow desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever.
• to be in dire straits
• a dark strait of barren land
• For honour travels in a strait so narrow / Where one but goes abreast.
• He brought him through a darksome narrow strait / To a broad gate all built of beaten gold.
• We steered directly through a large outlet which they call a strait, though it be fifteen miles broad.
• The Strait of Gibraltar
• I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait, / And so ingrateful, you deny me that.
• too strait and low our cottage doors
• a strait degree of favour
• Is not this piece too strait? / No, no, 'tis well.
• the straitest sect of our religion
• some certain edicts and some strait decrees
• to follow the strait and narrow
• Pedant and pitiful.
• His strait, caged universe, whereat the dull world stares,
• Those scentless wisps of straw, that miserably line
• The strait close locks it melted in.
• And ran down like cool rain between
• Sweet oil was poured out on thy head