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surround so as to force to give up
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surround in a restrictive manner
The building was hemmed in by flowers
How To Use hem in In A Sentence
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
- Just before serving, prepare a few small cheese ravioli and place them in each bowl before you add the soup.
- It takes about eight seconds for a pair of lobsters to copulate; it takes a lot longer to get them into the mood.
- Obama "cherishes" a trinket and a book given to him by Gordon Brown, and he worships them like tiny gods by keeping them in a little pagan altar he set up in the Oval Office. Wonkette » top
- ( "Emblematic of this anticlerical mindset was the tendency to" laicize "the names of locations with two words of religious significance, by contracting them into one. Cristero Rebellion: part 1 - toward the abyss
- He added: 'I consider them insidious and extremely dangerous. Times, Sunday Times
- Before reaching the main square, the vehicle swerved left and entered a narrow side street filled with people, most of them in uniform. Somewhere East of Life
- And when apriums - the babies of the pluots-plumcot family - hit the market, you can tuck them into a pillowy NPR Topics: News
- He buckled them into place with a strap that dented my forehead, and gave me a wire to bite. Times, Sunday Times
- We were giving out allowances and we always give it to them in change, so they can take their offering to church.