wedged

There was a double stream upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found ourselves in the office.”

She was wedged in between a stout lady in pink silk and a tall, scornful-looking girl in a white-lace dress.

But the rock was too heavy, and too firmly wedged, to be moved by anyone man, were he Hercules himself.

To my astonishment it was none other than my strange old book collector, his sharp, wizened face peering out from a frame of white hair, and his precious volumes, a dozen of them at least, wedged under his right arm.