Some of his old pals Cribbed it, I guess, or Jimmy may have fixed it with them to remove it.
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
Dr. Ross and Michael were classifying butterflies and moths in the den; Mrs. Ross was in her room; and Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt-'cabined, Cribbed, confined,' as Mr. Harcourt expressed it-were getting through alarming arrears of correspondence by way of passing the time.
"Lover or Friend"
Rosa Nouchette Carey
Flint strode down the hall, indifferent to the Kirmanshah rugs, the rare mosaic floor and stained-glass windows, the Parian fountain and the Azeglio tapestries that hung suspended up along the stairway-all old stories to him and as commonplace as rickety odds and ends of furniture might be to any toiler "Cribbed, cabin'd and confined" in fetid East Side tenement or squalid room on Hester Street.
"The Air Trust"
George Allan England