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He wore a velvet, royal blue dress coat, hemmed with gold thread and gold cuffs.
They have vented, straight hemmed tail for free movement and clean, easy tucking.
It has a scoop neck, hemmed sleeves, topstitched shoulders, and an even hem bottom.
You see why a church hemmed in like this put its burial ground out in the empty fields beyond what would become Russell Square.
And since people are different heights, shouldn't shorts be hemmed so that the shorts appear in proportion to the person's height?
Short-sleeve style S500T is double-needle hemmed at the sleeve cuffs and is constructed without a back pleat.
To cover our buffet table, we bought fabric by the yard and hemmed the ends.
The sleeves and the bottom of the jacket are hemmed with a narrow band of elasticized fabric.
This sparked outrage among some of the other marchers who jostled with the cordon of officers who had hemmed them in.
She tried to shrug, but the close walls hemmed her in, so she just made a face.
I know that the two guys were hemmed in by record company restrictions, but this is almost completely mainstream stuff.
More and more life becomes a series of traps where you are hemmed in from all sides.
After Trafalgar, the Empire was hemmed in and its many enemies began circling their prey.
After my son hemmed and hawed awhile, my grandson finally spoke up in disgust.
He hemmed and hawed, but I eventually got him to call the other dealership.
His dark patio was hemmed in by a cinder block retaining wall that created a barrier between the 1940s house and the rest of the yard.
Though close to the city centre, it serves a relatively poor area, hemmed in by dense, dingy apartment blocks.
This fabric doesn't fray, comes in a wide array of patterns and solids, and does not need to be hemmed or sewn!
The long now-walled-in driveway, up and down which I used to cycle madly, looked dark and narrow and hemmed in as a gully leading into a ghetto.
The sandy beach at Chintheche is one of the best on the entire lakeshore, hemmed in by smooth, elephantine rocks.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Nicholas hemmed once or twice, and seemed to have some difficulty in proceeding.
I tell you he said nothing, but cleared his throat and hemmed, as he does often.
When he was not hemmed in by the round of official details, England afforded him that combination in bounteous measure.
He hemmed and hawed, and finally had to blurt out that he didn't own the place.
He stuttered, and hemmed and hawed, until I shouted a real message into his ear.
The people occupy the choir, hemmed in between these rails and the parclose screens under the side arches.
We have learned that our dish towels had to be hemmed because of the raveling of material.
Wentworth hemmed and tapped on the desk with the end of his lead pencil.
Some, forty feet away was the edge of the forest that hemmed us in.
Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities.
With that thought I rolled my eves nervously around on the barriers of iron that hemmed me in.
I hemmed once more, and drew closer to the hearth, repeating my comment on the wildness of the evening.
All these must be neatly hemmed and run, or seamed, if necessary.
The other edge is hemmed, and the frill is double the size round the neck.
On the south they were hemmed in mainly by the Shahaptian tribes.
I hemmed and hawed and bowed to her back with a growing confusion.
The storekeeper hemmed and hawed and finally said five dollars in gold.
The patch and the cloth should be basted together and hemmed.
Darkness hemmed him in, in rayless and triumphant obscurity.
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.
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