Ever since I first began to read the newspapers, some twenty-five or thirty years ago, all our political life has been nothing but the convulsions of a social body tortured by the constricting ring of the profit system.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
They were walking through a mall and he was thinking how long ago in boyhood he and his brothers had entertained the thought of this man really being family to ease the pain of routine constricting them in noodles.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
The paralysing spell was upon him again, constricting as a rope about his neck.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell