Definition of "narrow"

She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.

1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎

Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess‎

Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.

2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist

The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world.

1675, John Wilkins, Of the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion

As in their narrow defeat of Argentina last week, England were indisciplined at the breakdown, and if Georgian fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili had remembered his kicking boots, Johnson's side might have been behind at half-time.

2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport‎

a very narrow […] and stinted charity

a. 1719, George Smalridge, The Hopes of a Recompense from Men must not be our chief Aim in doing Good

But first with narrow search I must walk round This garden, and no corner leave unspied.

1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow.

1858, William Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age