| 单词 | coop up |
| 例句 | "Ah for darkness," he thinks, "not the darkness of a house which coops up a man among furniture, but the darkness where he can be free!" Laurence Scott: rereading Maurice by EM Forster 2013-07-05T10:00:01Z You're too valuable, though, to coop up in a penitentiary, and I'm going to buy you off. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z "It would be a downright shame to coop up the children in a close school-room when they might be enjoying themselves in the bright sunshine," said Mr. Gale. For John's Sake and Other Stories. He dragged the lath coop up on the side. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good By occupying all the posts of Egypt, we can coop up the French and force them to capitulate. William Pitt and the Great War You might as well coop up a lark in a hen-house and expect it to thrive and sing. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 From Berwick the king turned back triumphant to coop up his enemies in London while fresh Papal excommunications fell on the barons and the city. History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must but coop up most men, and you undo them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 The task was a hard one, however, and though Rundle succeeded in holding his line intact, it appeared to be impossible in that wide country to coop up altogether an enemy so mobile. The Great Boer War |
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