Nook

Examples

• High on the upper deck, in a little nook among the everywhere predominant cotton-bales, at last we may find him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• In the complete obscurity, Birkin found a comparatively sheltered nook, where a great rope was coiled up. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Therefore, I followed him without a word, to a retired nook of the garden, formed by the junction of two walls and screened by some rubbish. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Far up in a sheltered nook, under the red cliffs, twelve graves had been dug in the soft sand, and in these were the ill-fated seamen laid. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It was furnished partly as a sitting and partly as a bedroom, with flowers arranged daintily in every nook and corner. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Many were doubly eager to quit a nook of ground now become their prison, which appeared unable to resist the inroads of ocean's giant waves. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The labour of hundreds of thousands alone could make this inclement nook fit habitation for one man. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Anguish has driven her from the ingle-nook of home to the white-shrouded and icy hills. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It would not require many visits to discover that in this room, also, Edison has a favorite nook. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I believe it none the less because that nook is in a Church, and she was weak and erring. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Good cheer had opened his heart, for he left me a nook of pasty and a flask of wine, instead of my former fare. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• They searched every nook and corner round, together and separately; they shouted, whistled, laughed, called--and all with the same result. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She idly watched him as he occasionally climbed up in the nook of the bank and stood beside the brands. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The last flower attended to was a rose-tree, which bloomed in a quiet green nook at the back of the house. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• After such occupation, I visited every street, alley, and nook of Forli. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Curious little nooks in a great place, like London, these old inns are. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I know his ways, and the likely nooks he favours. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They had shrunk past homeless people, lying coiled up in nooks. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Our England is a bonny island, said Shirley, and Yorkshire is one of her bonniest nooks. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We will first peep into one or two other nooks of this nutshell, he replied. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

Typed by Jennifer