in holes and corners
Example Sentences
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But the "demons," though driven generally from the field, lurked about in holes and corners, watching their opportunity.
From A Syrup of the Bees by Anonymous
Yet they are contemned—the natural species—by all professed orchidists; and even hybrids mostly will be found in holes and corners, where no one is invited to pause and look at them.
From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick
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
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
Begging is repressed by the new police regulations, and want skulks in holes and corners, and prefers its petitions where it can not be overheard by men armed with the authority of the law.
From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by Bryant, William Cullen
