He made this tender to a firm-faced woman of forty in a plain black dress, who came to the door with a half-hemmed towel in her hand.
The pool which was hemmed in by this gorgeous scenery was nowhere more than five feet deep, and of that one foot was a fine soft mud.
The pool covered an area of about four acres, and was closely hemmed in by the forest, which, in picturesque variety and grouping, often exceeded almost anything I had seen.
They have, in fact, found themselves so much relished, that they have been tracked and hemmed in on all sides by eager pie-makers.
As a pageant the affair was a distinct success, for, hemmed round by the swart square, his vassals were learning a lesson of fear that should stem their insolence in future.
There is nothing so soul-depressing to those hemmed in as a siege thus coldly carried out.
In four, the outbreak was hemmed into narrow quarters.
He was standing at the very margin of the brook, hemmed in by cliffs, and was bending down to it, but before he had moistened his lips he drew back: just because he was so thirsty he resolved to deny himself drink.
Behind the rocks which hemmed in the plateau on which Paulus met her, at last, when she was quite exhausted, she found a shady resting-place.
The exquisite Desmarais hemmed thrice,--"Will Monsieur be so very kind as to excuse my accompanying him?
Nestled down by the lake shore, that ripples and shines, And hemmed in by the hills with their crowning of pines.
Although such odds were against him, the rabbit had thus far succeeded by superior speed and quick dodging in evading his enemies; but escape was hopeless, as he was hemmed in and becoming exhausted.
As long as he keeps his feet he lives, though hemmed in closely by the snapping and snarling multitude.
The men and officers were hemmed in by the boiling torrent.
He hemmed several times and looked consciously kind, as a man will when he knows he's on delicate ground.
Such men must be urged by laws and hemmed in by teaching and exhortation.
The people were hemmed in, ringed by fire on every side, and out of a population of two thousand, scarcely five hundred escaped.
In this moment the rear bunch closed up solidly and Wilbur was hemmed in.
Further delay meant to be hemmed in by a ring of fire.
Hemmed in by the dreadful conflagration and the storming enemy, the Hungarians finally yielded.
The Hungarian army was led astray by the Wallachian guides, and in retreating found itself quite unexpectedly hemmed in between steep and towering rocks from which there was no outlet.
His faithful horse had been killed under him; he himself was sorely wounded; his friends were gone, and the merciless foe hemmed him in.
The travelers were obliged to carry their boats across Keweenaw Point, and at last found their way to Chequamegon Bay, a noble sheet of water, hemmed in by the beautiful Apostle Islands, and to-day a popular summer resort.
Above the Mascoutin village, the Fox begins to narrow, beinghemmed in, and often choked, by broad swamps of reeds and wild oats.
Having terminated his address in so apposite and public-spirited a manner, the worthy burgher hemmed loudly, and resumed his accustomed silence, perfectly assured of his own applause.
The Alderman hemmed so loud as to fill the cabin, and then, startled at his own interruption, he involuntarily bowed an apology to the motionless form in the alcove, and regained his composure.
Dick wondered why, for the mass of the forest which hemmed them in on every side seemed ample to protect them from any harm which might come from a storm.
But they hemmed us in, and we knew that they expected two hundred Ashantis to reinforce them.
Excuse me, Mr Stapleton, but how could you know that when you were, according to your own description, hemmed in the stockade?
The English were thus to be hemmed in between a conflagration and the lances and pikes of the French.
Still, though the pirates hemmed them closely round, the seamen stood as before, boldly at bay, and no impression was made on their front.
The pirate junks had now completely hemmedin the helpless brig.
One of them being hemmed in, was this afternoon swimming a shallow pool when she attracted the attention of a Southern Peregrine falcon (Falco punicus) which was waiting on the partridge in front of our line.
On the left towered a range of limestone crags, the right flank being hemmed in by huge uptilted rocks, like ruined towers, and white as marble.
It is, indeed, strange that, while the Christian powers were under the impression that they had hemmed in the children of Israel on all sides like hunted animals, the Turks of Eastern Europe opened a way of escape to them.
More than the rear-guard would have beat a retreat at that moment, but for the fact that the baggage-wagons hemmed us in so that flight was well-nigh impossible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hemmed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
