crowding-in

Updated: May 11, 2025

In another minute Aleck was surrounded by a roughly-formed crowding-in ring, with the two lads who had tested the force of his blows eager to obtain revenge, incited thereto by a score or two of voices urging them to "give it him," "pay him," "let him have it," and the like.

George Manville Fenn - The Lost Middy: Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap