close-entangled

Updated: May 19, 2025

They made for the staircase, but their onrush was at once stopped, on the first floor, by an accumulation of beds, chairs and other furniture, forming a regular barricade and so close-entangled that it took the aggressors four or five minutes to clear themselves a passage. Those four or five minutes lost were enough to render all pursuit hopeless.

Maurice Leblanc - The Crystal Stopper