Self-consciousness now was like an iron band about him, the devilish thing that constricts a talent.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens
I assure you, sir, such a view not only narrows the mind, but constricts humanity, and ossifies the heart-that special organ by which the world, despite present-day detractors, lives and moves and has its being."
"Flamsted quarries"
Mary E. Waller
But what Is this which now constricts my breath?
"Boris Godunov A Drama in Verse"
Alexander Pushkin Rendered into English verse by Alfred Hayes