Hemmed

Examples

• Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Every stitch Daisy's patient little fingers had put into the handkerchiefs she hemmed was better than embroidery to Mrs. March. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• And now, the sea, late our defence, seems our prison bound; hemmed in by its gulphs, we shall die like the famished inhabitants of a besieged town. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• By the 4th of June Johnston found that he was being hemmed in so rapidly that he drew off and Allatoona was left in our possession. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Some handkerchiefs, all hemmed, said Beth. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Behold us now in our frail tenement, hemmed in by hungry, roaring waves, buffeted by winds. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We are hemmed into a corner. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We are hemmed in by flames in front and flood behind. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I should so like to have all my cambric frilling double-hemmed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She feels caught, hemmed in; she dreads her unexpected presence may annoy him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But, hemmed in, as I am, between Mr. Franklin Blake's cheque on one side and my own sacred regard for truth on the other, what am I to do? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The Countess hemmed and hesitated. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He hemmed the beasts into valleys and enclosures where he could be sure to find them again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He hemmed--he fidgeted. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I suppose, to be sure, if anybody had asked him, plump and fair, whether they had human immortal souls, he might have hemmed and hawed, and said yes. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Mr. Brocklehurst hemmed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

Editor: Rebekah