in holes and corners
Example Sentences
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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
When you traveled from country to country, and lived in holes and corners, it was because by doing it he could escape spies, and see the people who must be made to understand.
From The Lost Prince by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
There are three more bits of evidence," said the other, "that I have dug up in holes and corners; and I will give them in logical rather than chronological order.
From The Innocence of Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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
The scurrying noises made by bats and owls, who, scared by the lighted candles, were hiding themselves in holes and corners of refuge, startled me not at all—I was well accustomed to such sounds.
From Vendetta: a story of one forgotten by Corelli, Marie
