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A good mixer and orator, he likes to "pull the cork up in their throats at least once."

From Time Magazine Archive

The Kwangtung supply line, which the Japanese last week tried to cork up, is no single bombable pathway like the Burma Road.

From Time Magazine Archive

Put in clear water and plug or cork up the hole.

From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.

"Oh, cork up that tuneless whistle," growled Minerva Powelton; "you make too much noise."

From The Adventures of a Freshman by Jesse Lynch Williams

I will take the cork out, light the phosphorus, and cork up the jar again.

From The Fairy-Land of Science by Arabella B. Buckley




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