Cramped

Examples

• Your Wellington is the most humdrum of commonplace martinets, whose slow, mechanical movements are further cramped by an ignorant home government. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I was cramped by my position and chilled to the bones. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is so crooked and cramped and dirty that one can not realize that he is in the splendid city he saw from the hill-top. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Cramped in all kinds of dim cupboards and hutches at Tellson's, the oldest of men carried on the business gravely. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It was traced on ruled lines, in the cramped, conventional, copy-book character technically termed small hand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He was putting it up, when she said, 'I think it is a cramped, dazzling sort of writing. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Can I even remember when the chilled, cramped feeling left me, and the throbbing heat came in its place? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Just beneath it stood the photograph of Lily Bart, looking out imperially on the cheap gimcracks, the cramped furniture of the little room. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• How stiff and cramped they were, in the night-time! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Then to go back, you know, and find him in the same cramped place. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I was glad when they left, as I was cramped, and the potatoes were rotten that had been in the barrel and violently offensive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To this day France is cramped by this early nineteenth-century strait-waistcoat into which he clapped her. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Few men have been more cramped than I have been, said Fred, with some sense of surprise at his own virtue, considering how hardly he was dealt with. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There was a second thing that cramped the Greek mind, the institution of domestic slavery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The large rooms are too cramped and close. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mrs. Sparsit, ma'am, I rather think you are cramped here, do you know? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

Editor: Meredith