They came to a narrow place the end of the tunnel.
"So they wouldn't see how the road goes through that narrow place behind us."
The station is in the narrow place between two long tunnels.
It was the narrowest place that he could think of.
There was a narrow place in the corridor between himself and it.
He looked well about for the gaps and the narrow places.
Then after a narrow place again there was a light.
I have my own narrow place there next to you, which is not big enough for two.
"The river will keep them off our backs, and they can only come at us across that one narrow place."
Perhaps they were waiting to make some ambush in a narrow place?