1 For a moment, stiffened by the cramped position in which she had slept, she could not remember where she was.
2 Now that the four boys were gone, the house burned and the family cramped in the overseer's cottage, she could not bring herself to go.
3 She turned the pages slowly, narrowly scanning the rows of names and figures written in Frank's cramped copperplate hand.
4 Just beneath it stood the photograph of Lily Bart, looking out imperially on the cheap gimcracks, the cramped furniture of the little room.
5 She pinched her wrist, as though she were a noisy child in church, and when she was decent and cramped again, she listened.
6 The Red Swede staggered up, rubbed his cramped knees, lumbered to the wire fence, held the strands apart for her.
7 Mrs. Perry confided, "My, it's a shame we got to entertain you in such a cramped place."
8 They were cramped like malefactors with the chain and ball.
9 Edna arose, cramped from lying so long and still in the hammock.
10 She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up.
11 This shook me up considerable, because I didn't want to go back to the widow's any more and be so cramped up and sivilized, as they called it.
12 Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't.
13 For this purpose I applied all the strength I possessed to force an entrance from the cramped spot in which I lay to the adjoining room.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 45. The Rain of Blood. 14 The old man did not answer, but looked at his master with wild staring eyes, while with his cramped hand he grasped a piece of furniture to enable him to stand upright.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 79. The Lemonade. 15 I did not know how it was, but though there were only two of us, we were at once always cramped for room, and yet had always room enough to lose everything in.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING