crampingly

Updated: June 5, 2025

He sat there uneasily, pressing his thumbs between his palms and his closed fingers and drawing up his feet crampingly within their shoes; yet it somewhat eased his tension to find that Medora Phillips was disposed to put Amy into a subordinate place: Amy had been but a means to an end her prime merit consisted in having given him a chance to function. Any other girl would have done as well.

Henry Blake Fuller - Bertram Cope's Year