corked up
Example Sentences
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It does feel a bit more corked up in stock form compared to the others, too.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oldendorf corked up the mouth of the strait with his old battlewagons, sent destroyers up ahead.
From Time Magazine Archive
"But, my best, worthiest gentlemen!" said the student Anselmus, "do you not feel, then, that you are all and sundry corked up in glass bottles, and cannot for your hearts walk a hair's-breadth?"
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
"But," said I, taking out the bottle of precious fluid, "here it is, corked up tight, and what is to be done for a cork-screw?"
From Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses by Cozzens, Frederic S.
If I lives to get through this I’ll allus keep ’em corked up in a bottle.”
From King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale by Greene, J. B.
