cork up
Example Sentences
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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
A good mixer and orator, he likes to "pull the cork up in their throats at least once."
From Time Magazine Archive
Sooner would I throw this trusty pen into the flames, and cork up my ink-bottle for ever, than infringe even for a nail's breadth upon the dignity of these truly benevolent champions of the distressed.
From Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Washington Irving
Cut the leaves two or three times in the season, and dry quickly, and put away in paper bags; or, better, pulverize and cork up in glass bottles.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
"Oh, cork up on that ere spoutin, and sound yer supper bell," said JOE BIGLER, interuptin me.
From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 36, December 3, 1870 by Various
