War and Peace vocabulary

the scent that swept out over me from them was as rich, and as circumscribed in its range, as though I had been standing before the Lady-altar,

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way

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Life was cheaper because it was circumscribed: that most expensive luxury, the kind of life that can be changed at any moment, was no longer his nor did he wish for it.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace

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By the narrator a limitation of activity, mental and corporal, inasmuch as complete mental intercourse between himself and the listener had not taken place since the consummation of puberty, indicated by catamenic hemorrhage, of the female issue of narrator and listener, 15 September 1903, there remained a period of 9 months and 1 day during which, in consequence of a preestablished natural comprehension in incomprehension between the consummated females (listener and issue), complete corporal liberty of action had been circumscribed.

James Joyce. Ulysses