Then it was carefully wedged into a space on the manifold where it would be secure, undisturbed by the car's skidding on ice, hidden potholes or stop-and-start driving during rush hour.

Perhaps the battering of the storm had affected the charge, for this was only a wan echo of the usual light, but there was no denying that the rod had been carefully wedged into a crevice to provide a guide.

The box was oblong in shape; it had been carefully wedged in place so that it would not shift with the motion of the car.

Beneath him, carefully wedged and covered, stood the mess-kid with the few remaining pints of water.

Near the edge of the precipice, where he had lain with his head down the narrow cleft, the same cleft down which Reade was to have been lowered, stood seven baskets, filled with the finest nests and carefully wedged with stones.

For the first time, in the growing daylight, Jane noticed that the square, leaf-woven figure had been built on a kind of platform, like a huge tray made of boards, and that this platform had a heavy wheel at each corner, carefully wedged with big stones.

For a moment, my mind refused to register what my eyes saw; the folded white square of paper, carefully wedged upright between the multicolored bottles.