hemmed in

And while Obama both reflects and reinforces the impetus to realign, the befuddled, hemmed-in GOP seems doomed to decline.

By-and-bye there came a time when the clock looked down through its cracked glass upon the hemmed-in square and saw him not.

Oh God, to be free of all the hemmed-in life—the horror of human tension, the absolute insanity of machine persistence.

In the small hemmed-in hollows, whereto our pathway led, the icy dew clung to one's hair and beard.

There is no land more hemmed-in by mountains, or more poor in its water-supply; more difficult to live in.

He might have been swept overboard after all, and the hunting-party be really hemmed-in at some stockade.