The mountains, by which the valley was hemmed in, were utterly impassable, thickly set as they were with jungle, consisting of tangled brier, thorn and forest trees, of which those who have never been in a tropical climate can form no adequate idea.

"I am not worthy to touch the hem of your garment," he said humbly.

Angeline had on a black silk gown as shiny as the freshly polished stove she was leaving in her kitchena gown which testified from its voluminous hem to the soft yellow net at the throat that Angeline was as neat a mender and darner as could be found in Suffolk county.

For thei trowen, that aftre hire dethe, thei schulle be etynge and drynkynge in that other world, and solacynge hem with hire wifes, as thei diden here.

be this sotyltee: thei taken mares, that han zonge coltes or foles, and leyn upon the mares voyde vesselles made therfore; and thei ben alle open aboven, and hangynge lowe to the erthe: and thanne thei sende forth tho mares for to pasturen aboute the hilles, and with holden the foles with hem at home.

And the most part of hem dyen with outen syknesse, whan nature faylethe hem for elde.

Captain's wife's hem on the machine.

She was obliged to take her apron in her hand and run her eyes along the hem from corner to corner, to keep herself from laughing in his face;not because his gaze confused hernot at all.

The Success of one of these Incidents was, that the next time that one of the Adversaries spied the other, he hems after him in the publick Street, and they must crack a Bottle at the next Tavern, that used to turn out of the others Way to avoid one anothers Eyeshot.

We had them hemmed between two lines, with an intervening space of not more than 150 yards.

The frost-king ties my fumbling feet, Sings in my ears, my hands are stones, Curdles the blood to the marble bones, Tugs at the heartstrings, numbs the sense, Hems in the life with narrowing fence.

hemmed around With woes, which who that suffers would not kneel And beg for exile or the pangs of death?

Aftre that, is another yle, where that wommen maken gret sorwe, whan hire children ben y born: and whan thei dyen, thei maken gret feste and gret joye and revelle, and thanne thei casten hem into a gret fuyr brennynge.

He leaned forward and whispered behind his glove, "There's a Hay Pee Hem under the portico watching your movements, Sir."

Where once a thousand miles of wilderness lay between them and Gentile wickedness, they were now hemmed about with it, and even it polluted the streets of the holy city itself.