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Unknown to the public, King was also hemmed in by blackmail threats from the FBI.
The exterior is rather unprepossessing — a sooty Baroque church, hemmed into an undigniﬁed position by the Elizabeth Bridge — but look inside and you can discern much earlier elements in the handsome interior.
Considered one of Bali’s oddities, the Bat Cave and its temple are hemmed in by souvenir stalls, hawkers, sash dispensers, donation collectors, ticket sellers, and, for most of the day, parked tour buses.
Isolated figures descend the stairs in this twilit realm, hemmed in by a geometric cage of bars and pillars (Entrance to Subway, 1938).
. Hemmed in by censors and given to subtlety, these poets said "I love you" without actually saying it.