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Bordman put it in the boat, disapproving of the crampedness of the craft.

From Sand Doom by Leinster, Murray

The crampedness of the locality aggravates the evil, and it can only be in the rains which channel and furrow the rocky hillsides that Boondi is at all swept out.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

Out of this crampedness of Russian literature by government developed that virtue of its masters, which with their sincerity and simplicity, or moderation, forms a most beautiful trinity of graces; I mean their freedom.

From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Panin, Ivan

But often there came into her mind the wonder, how the cell was built, and she could feel the horror of the crampedness, as something very real.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)