in holes and corners
Example Sentences
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Mice lurk in holes and corners; could the cat speak, she would say that they have a genius only for lurking in holes.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various
The children stuck themselves in holes and corners, about the quarters; often in the corner of the huge chimneys, with their feet in the ashes to keep them warm.
From My Bondage and My Freedom by Douglass, Frederick
Macaulay describes the unlicensed press at this period as being worked in holes and corners, and producing large quantities of pamphlets which were a direct infraction of the law subjecting the press to a censorship.
From The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress by Jackson, Mason
Only not at the price of Mialism; that is, of a doctrine which leaves the Nonconformists in holes and corners, out of contact with the main current of national life.
From Culture and Anarchy by Arnold, Matthew
Who died there in those months, in holes and corners and dark places, the magistrates may have known, no others.
From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.
