confine

Anne did remember it and was back in the stipulated time, although probably no mortal will ever know just what it cost her to confine the discussion of Diana’s important communication within the limits of ten minutes.

“You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a headache, when your stepfather comes back.

Possibly you have seen pictures and read descriptions of the famous old building, so I will confine my account of it to saying that it is built in the shape of an L, the long arm being the more modern portion, and the shorter the ancient nucleus, from which the other had developed.

“We will confine ourselves for the present with your permission to this very interesting document, which must have been put together and posted yesterday evening.