| 单词 | hole-and-corner |
| 例句 | The thing was reported, and though the Tories sneered at it as a hole-and-corner meeting, Farthingale held another view. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z The splendid plans, the world-embracing schemes with which he had dazzled her, had shrunk indeed into a hole-and-corner effort to save his own skin. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z When there is real variety, what may be called hole-and-corner work,—conspiracy,—influence of sect or clique,—are impossible. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z There is no getting out of it now," remarked the Professor, with a rueful face; "and I don't think you have improved matters by getting married in this hole-and-corner way. For the Cause 2012-02-19T03:00:18.033Z For the Gideonites were one of those strange enthusiastic hole-and-corner sects that spring up naturally in the outlying suburbs of great thinking centres. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z There was to be no hole-and-corner business about the great coup. Chance in Chains A Story of Monte Carlo 2011-10-03T02:00:32.613Z I'm not the kind of a woman for a hole-and-corner affair, Bel. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z Some scientific fellows about town had got wind of the thing, and wished to be present: to this we made no manner of objection, as it was not a hole-and-corner meeting. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z The hole-and-corner life he was leading was becoming very wearisome to a man of his tastes, and his long daylight sittings in the little Bloomsbury room were getting sadly on his nerves. The Princess Galva A Romance Oh, you are a nasty, hole-and-corner, underhand sneak! The School by the Sea All her life she had been accustomed to be left in the charge of strangers while Francis Agnew went about his business of hole-and-corner diplomacy. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion There was love, but, as Mr Villiers Wentworth pointed out, the young man is barred socially and economically from indulging in anything but hole-and-corner affairs just when he most needs real sympathy. Years of Plenty This wretched poky little hole-and-corner village, where people grovelled away their lives by the score of years at a time; what was it to him? A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance Papa would not have liked a hole-and-corner affair. Lady Cassandra No secret tribunals, no hole-and-corner commitments with us! A Day's Ride A Life's Romance To wait would be infinitely preferable to a hole-and-corner business, with no prestige, no spectators, no one even to see her bridal array and Paul's necklace. Leonore Stubbs There is nothing that so mystifies the citizen of the New World as the hole-and-corner aspect of some of the business establishments of London. The Silent Barrier "You will not mind such a hole-and-corner sort of wedding?" he asked anxiously. Banked Fires He's ready to give you a hole-and-corner marriage. The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons I decline to make a hole-and-corner affair of this. The Brass Bottle This hole-and-corner meeting, waiting for the priest, addressed by the priest, bossed by the priest, is a fair sample of the humbug which seems inseparable from the Irish question. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule He had delivered the bills to me the same night, and I had them posted, with the result that, instead of a hole-and-corner meeting, there was a crowded audience of mixed political opinions. Adventures and Recollections This poverty-stricken chamber was the domicile of the queer fellow who passed his daylight hours in the company of Mother Toulouche, hobnobbing with a hole-and-corner crew, cronies of the old receiver of stolen goods. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas We had better have your story blazoned out once more to the world than that you should live your life in this hole-and-corner fashion. The Master Mummer As being preferable to hole-and-corner meetings in friends' houses——! The Big Drum A Comedy in Four Acts A hole-and-corner way of carrying on the fight, which had been begun by MEN, but which the latest fashion of Irishmen have not the courage to canduct as men. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule She did not like, either, this hole-and-corner en famille work with Mr. Wyse; it indicated a pushing familiarity to which, it was hoped, Mr. Wyse’s eyes were open. Miss Mapp Yes, a hole-and-corner fame within a space no bigger than your hat. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 I says, 'just as it's that of the law, that we don't countenance hole-and-corner business. In the Mayor's Parlour It is of those performers that I write: of the hole-and-corner work, of the little thumb-nail sketches which go to make up the big battle panels so ably depicted over the matutinal bacon and eggs. No Man's Land In doing this he took advantage of another goods train, from which he dropped at a certain hole-and-corner spot, while it was slowly passing the goods-shed before mentioned. The Iron Horse There had been no regular rehearsals yet, but private preparation, of the hole-and-corner kind I have described, had been going on for a week or so. The Master of the Shell It’s funny how sore you are about that precious hole-and-corner meeting of yours. The Cock-House at Fellsgarth The further success of She Stoops to Conquer was not likely to propitiate the wretched hole-and-corner cut-throats that infested the journalism of that day. Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series Despairing of explaining to the English middle class the idea of high and central public instruction, as distinct from coarse and hole-and-corner private instruction, he invoked the aid of Dickens. The Victorian Age in Literature But this hole-and-corner way of doing warfare damps all enthusiasm and stifles recruiting. My War Experiences in Two Continents Think of it," Rooksby said, "and me a justice, and... oh, it drives me wild, this hole-and-corner work! Romance You can guess that the people who belong to a hole-and-corner place like this are not the sort you're accustomed to meet at West-End dinner tables, nor yet at an archbishop's garden-party. The Wharf by the Docks A Novel "But if ever there was hole-and-corner sectarianism in this world—And this is what we've come to listen to!" Nicky-Nan, Reservist He is enlightened enough, like the great Western world-menders in their moments of theorizing, to discountenance secrecy and hole-and-corner agreements, and, what is still more praiseworthy, he is courageous enough to practise the doctrine. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference I made all my acquaintances think me madder than usual by the pertinacity with which I attended debating societies and haunted all sorts of hole-and-corner debates and public meetings and made speeches at them. The History of the Fabian Society Those who know me best know that I am all fair and above-board, and no hole-and-corner gambling for me. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 25, 1891 He had risen out of his old grade of hole-and-corner shipmaster, where it had been his province to carry things through by rough blows and violent words. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle If you think all this'll be done in hole-and-corner fashion, superintendent," he said, "you're not the wise man I take you for. Dead Men's Money Who was ever to know the heights to which I might have risen if I were knocked on the head in this hole-and-corner business, which had nothing whatever to do with France or the Emperor? The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard And it's a hole-and-corner business at the best, isn't it?—and it must be a very thirsty one—with the hot metal and furnaces and things.' The Story of the Treasure Seekers Don't suppose that I don't understand your reasons for not wanting to let this feeling between us dwindle into an ordinary hole-and-corner love-affair. The Age of Innocence I do not approve of hole-and-corner marriages, but where the gentleman has to take up an official position some allowance must be made. Round the Red Lamp The wretched creature had been properly punished—stamped out by knaves of his own class in a vulgar street brawl—a dirty hole-and-corner end. The Highwayman People wondered who this she-Brownist, Katherine Chidley, was, and did not quite lose their interest in her when they found that she was an oldish woman, and a member of some hole-and-corner congregation in London. Among My Books Second Series It was so unlike Tony to resort to any hole-and-corner business such as this—slipping out of the house, as he believed, unknown to any one. The Vision of Desire It was obvious that we had many friends, that we were not going to be tried in a hole-and-corner fashion. Prisoner for Blasphemy Yet here he was, exciting mistrust by his secrecy, and leading a hole-and-corner sort of life when, as I have said, there was not the slightest necessity for it. My Strangest Case There is little hope and little strength in hole-and-corner bargainings between the officials or politicians who happen to be at the head of this or that nation for the time being. In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace Now, without method, war would become but a scurvy, sorry, hole-and-corner business, unworthy your true soldier. Beltane the Smith If anything was his by right, he would take it as of right, but he would be no party to such hole-and-corner renunciations of unknown contingencies as the writer suggested. What's Bred in the Bone Meanwhile, the ethical life as viewed by Kant accordingly shrinks ever further into a powerless, hole-and-corner existence. Man or Matter "I have been thinking the matter over, and not being able to determine the benefit of this hole-and-corner sort of game, I have made up my mind to settle it once and for all." My Strangest Case "These things are talked of, hole-and-corner fashion, a long time before they reach the ears of the person chiefly concerned." The Paradise Mystery But it was principally the professors of Zurich University whom Princess Caroline coaxed out of their hole-and-corner Zurich habits. My Life — Volume 2 I want no hole-and-corner confession, which may afterwards be useless, but an open avowal before the most approved witnesses. Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose The call might not come, of course; the war might be short, a hole-and-corner affair soon ended. In the Wilderness We have seen the narrowness generated in Puritanism by its hole-and-corner organisation, and we propose to cure it by bringing Puritanism more into contact with the main current of national life. Culture and Anarchy He loses in this manner a fine opportunity of making himself favourably known and of raising himself above his hole-and-corner circumstances. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 Ethelberta was far from putting this matter before Picotee for advice or opinion; but, like all people who have an innate dislike to hole-and-corner policy, she felt compelled to speak of it to some one. The Hand of Ethelberta If we know our Cardinal Roderigo at all, he was never the man to pursue his pleasures in a hole-and-corner fashion, nor one to bethink him of a cloak for his amusements. The Life of Cesare Borgia You know, Lucy, you and Charlotte and Mr. Beebe all tell me I'm so stupid, so I suppose I am, but I shall never understand this hole-and-corner work. A Room with a View "Oh, it is a hole-and-corner business, and God only knows why," he answered. Youth Give them but a sealed box, or some hole-and-corner to hide their act in, and they will then enjoy their "liberty!" Character Ghosts do not live a hole-and-corner life in China, but boldly come out and take their part in the pleasures and business of life. Books and Bookmen Look here, Rayton," was the firm reply, "I want to chuck this infernal hole-and-corner business. The Zeppelin's Passenger Maybe, some little deadly act of meanness, some hole-and-corner treachery? Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story But, as I say, it is a hole-and-corner business. Youth We who have learned by now what a world-war is like may be excused for considering the disturbances of that period as insignificant brawls, mere hole-and-corner scuffles. Notes on Life and Letters |
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