| 单词 | pen up |
| 例句 | “If this is what it’s like to be free,” he thought, “I believe I’d rather be penned up in my own yard.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Carefully, he scraped the pen up and down in between the door frame and the door. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z It means effectively not only that you must walk a prescribed distance each day but then spend the night penned up with strangers. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I meet my sisters in front of Madoc’s stables, where silver-shod faerie horses are penned up beside enormous toads ready to be saddled and bridled and reindeer with broad antlers hung with bells. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was as if my subconscious was speaking to me about everything that I kept penned up inside of me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z They got the name because Indians supposedly kept sea cows penned up there a long time ago. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Someone had closed it, penned up all the ages of history between two gold clasps. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She had not been allowed to tend it properly penned up in this cell, but even unwashed and tangled it shone where the sun touched it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If he lived closer to the town, he could watch each day, and when they took his father away in the wagons where convicts were penned up in huge wooden crates, he could follow. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re all a little nervous, penned up in the holding area, but it’s a good nervous. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Every animal stirred and lifted its head and became excited to know that one of his friends had got free and was no longer penned up or tied fast. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z It’s especially cruel to pen up young pigs, for they are very playful and love to run and chase each other. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He gestured for Chronicler to pick his pen up again. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I could have kept him in my back yard, but to pen up a dog like that is a sin. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z After being penned up for ages at Paddington station, we got on the train. 'I saw the Rolling Stones. In the 60s' 2013-07-01T06:00:18Z A cruelly deformed human being referred to as the "pitiful creature" spends much of his time penned up, though at night he roams free with his razor-sharp claw. Despite a few bumps, 'Blacktop Highway' still leads to horrors inside the American psyche 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z A grown man entertains himself in private by stuffing red and blue marker pens up each nostril. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-22T23:06:30Z The mantu are fortifying, the heat penned up inside the skins, which hiss when pierced. At Nansense, Afghan Comfort Comes From an Unlikely Place: a Former Mail Truck 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z That’s because the 26-year-old from Frederick, Md., is a trivia writer, penning up to 50 puzzlers a week for a local trivia event producer. Q: Their job is to stump you. Who are they? A: Trivia writers, of course. 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z "There are factory farms there with great big barns. Our rabbits mainly live as free range, they are not penned up like those rabbit factories in Europe." T&S Rabbits farm closes and hands over 250 rabbits to activists 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Relief and joy, both penned up over these long months, were chief among them. Perspective | How good was that Nationals Opening Day? Let us count the ways. 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Meade county sheriff, Rob Merwin, said: “It’s going to be a lot of people and a lot of motorcycles all over the place. People are tired of being penned up by this pandemic.” Thousands of bikers heading to South Dakota rally to be blocked at tribal land checkpoints 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z “It’s going to be a lot of people and a lot of motorcycles all over the place. People are tired of being penned up by this pandemic.“ South Dakota town braces for 100,000 bikers despite Covid threat 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z “The fact that the court system is not working, the economy is not working, people have been penned up for months and months, so many issues underlying this challenge,” he said. 64 Shot, 10 Dead: Spike in Gun Violence Alarms an On-Edge N.Y.C. 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z “I was penned up in my house for two months because I’m not in the best of health,” Keith Ness, a spectator at Lincoln, told reporters. N. Carolina Speedway Packs Its Stands, Drawing Governor’s Rebuke 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z The Maryland senior lifted the trophy, confetti flew around the table, and Coach Mark Turgeon appeared to release every bit of emotion penned up inside him. Maryland earns share of Big Ten title with 83-70 win over Michigan 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Asians and Mexicans alike were penned up in the afternoon sun like hogs awaiting slaughter, their hands in plastic cuffs. America today exists in a state of anxiety over the threat of immigration raids | Art Cullen 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Clifford’s recommendation is to keep cattle penned up until the flowers die and the plants are no longer desirable for the cows. Toxic plants suspected of killing cows in Four Corners 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z “In general, that means they were penned up with no room to move around, and that’s why they’re fat like that.” Millennials are disrupting Thanksgiving with their tiny turkeys 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Consider that immigrant children taken from their parents at the border are still penned up. Perspective | This was the most gutting month for liberals in half a century 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z The worse the weather, the more golfers want to play, especially after being penned up all winter. Rain wreaks havoc in Washington region yet again, as residents grow weary 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z “When you pick something like a pen up off a table, the first thing you touch is the table,” says Oliver Brock, a roboticist at the Technical University of Berlin. How robots are grasping the art of gripping 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z “There’s a pen up here I’ve been wanting to look at.” At Hamburger Central, Antibiotics for Cattle That Aren’t Sick 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z It’s easy to recognize the symbolism: The horses and the inmates are both penned up. Las Vegas, Harvey Weinstein, Spain: Your Thursday Evening Briefing 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z They want the wild animals to be penned up or removed. California Today: Talking to the Creator of ‘Snowfall’ 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z And blaming horses who are penned up in a very small area for the resulting overgrazing is like calling the kettle black. Success Spoils a U.S. Program to Round Up Wild Horses 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The Nevada standoff ended with federal officials releasing the cattle they penned up, but the U.S. Bundy testifies it was his ‘duty’ to join Malheur occupation 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Shameful secrets and penned up passions that flash like heat lighting on the horizon of a brooding sky. ‘As Good as Gone’: stormy weather in a Montana town 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z "I don't like being locked up, penned up." Street medicine is a tiny health care niche that advocates predict will become more mainstream as hospitals and health care systems seek to cut costs, in part by reducing emergency-room visits among the homeless 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z “I don’t like being locked up, penned up.” Long a niche, street medicine for homeless heads mainstream 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Most of the Scottish prisoners were penned up in the huge cathedral at Dunbar, where they died by the hundreds. Restoring a proper name in Georgetown 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Levees built in the 1930s pen up the Virgin River and protect a paved road in Zion Canyon from damage during spring flooding. Cottonwoods dotting Zion National Park dying out 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z "He was taken to a makeshift prison. Not penned up long, he jumped over the wall on 12 December and on to a passing train." Churchill's mill-town beginnings 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z “It’s going to have a different look, so they didn’t really have to go out on the market and do too much to switch this pen up.” Nathan hoping for better start in 2nd season with Tigers 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Pick a pen up off of your desk, hold it about a foot above the flat surface, and then let it drop. Applying Complexity Theory To Healthcare Delivery Is Not Complicated 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Our work would no longer be penned up anywhere and our work become all encompassing and inescapable. Why did offices become like the home? 2013-08-02T02:32:09Z We, your Brethren of the several Nations, are penned up like Hoggs. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z First, say at four o'clock in the morning, you drive the cows into the stock-yard, where the calves have been penned up all the previous night in a hutch in one corner. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z The terrified villagers were penned up like cattle in the farmyard, guarded by a dozen Uhlans. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z If Verlaine had been penned up in hospital or prison it would have been for the greater glory of French poetry. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z To lead a whole nation by voice and pen up to heroic deeds is better than to lead an army. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z The dogs were penned up, and made the air hideous with their barking and snarling. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z "But I would fain see him and speak with him, for he may perchance spare a vessel to go and seek for our poor comrades penned up in Maiden Isle." With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z You must next pen up in a court, where the water is sweet and the air pure, sixteen chickens, if you are of a sanguine temperament; twenty-five, if phlegmatic; and thirty, if melancholic. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z They require neither penning up nor cramming to acquire plumpness, and if well fed should be fit for market in eight or ten weeks. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z Earlier this month, Iraqi authorities kept scores of contractors penned up at Baghdad’s international airport for nearly a week until their visa disputes were resolved. Asserting Its Sovereignty, Iraq Detains American Contractors 2012-01-16T02:23:29Z Scott leans back in a wire mesh chair and holds a pen up near his ear so that it vibrates like an antenna. Head of the Pac 2011-12-15T21:30:02Z In this quarter be the pearl-fishers, penned up like cattle when their work is done. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z “Well, I don’t know, that it is, but I would like to know what he is penned up there for?” The Herriges Horror in Philadelphia A Full History of the Whole Affair. A Man Kept in a Dark Cage Like a Wild Beast for Twenty Years, As Alleged, in His Own Mother's and Brother's House 2011-12-14T03:00:19.043Z He swept his incomplete copy off his pad of blotting-paper, and took his pen up again. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z One may shut up volatile spirits, pen up the air, confine bears, lyons and tygers, nay, keep even your gold: but a wanton wife, who can keep? Three Hours after Marriage 2011-10-10T02:00:20.823Z Take Thomas Märki, a 43-year-old insurance broker who was disturbed by the cows he saw penned up on a farm he passed every day on the way to work. Zurich Journal: Political Parties on Fringe Abound in Switzerland 2011-09-22T03:14:52Z To many, therefore, especially to those who wished to work hard, it was a great drawback being penned up night and day with companions whose tastes not unfrequently were anything but congenial. The Gentleman Cadet His Career and Adventures at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich 2011-08-31T02:01:40.423Z It gave an exquisite edge to his misery to be penned up in the same room with a man he hated. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z Anything would be better than this consciousness of being penned up with these awful memories, to say nothing of the long-legged horrors which rendered rest impossible. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z The goat was penned up, and Abe loaded his meal on to his horse and went off. Tales from the Veld 2011-07-05T02:00:29.217Z For nearly a week these two had been penned up in the hut. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z The few who escaped our swords are penned up in the Residency, and its walls are now crumbling before our guns. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z No wonder they kin purvide fancy garments fur all the hands an' buy solid gold bars fur the cage whar they keeps them clerks penned up. J. Poindexter, Colored 2011-06-11T02:00:11.257Z But what can a fellow do penned up here?” Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z And you must get out of here before word comes of those men penned up there. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z An hour later we discovered, cunningly hidden in a lonely gulley, a big stockyard in which our lost cattle were still penned up. A Crime of the Under-seas 2011-05-17T02:00:16.540Z Unfortunately they are now both penned up in the Residency at Lucknow, which is surrounded by goodness only knows how many thousands of rebels. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Cannon are levelled at these wretches penned up like wild beasts. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z It has the distinction of having made the first dock, penning up with flood-gates sufficient water to keep ships afloat between the fall and rise of tides. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z Funny little happy people we were, not penned up in nurseries with starched nurses, but allowed to be a great deal with our parents, and encouraged each to follow our own bent. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z When they are kept in dog quarters they are simply penned up and fed during the summer, so that the savage side of their nature gets full play during long periods. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z And this thought of being penned up in London during the dog days oppressed her: she felt choking. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Looking like a corrupt prison warden, Briceño was filmed in 2001 lording over scores of hostages penned up in jungle concentration camps. In Predawn Jungle Raid, Colombia Orchestrates Major Win Against FARC 2010-09-24T07:05:00Z When a wild animal is penned up, it does this and much more. Cuban police haul protesting "Ladies in White" away 2010-03-17T19:06:00Z He drew a bird without takin' his pen up from the paper, and it looked for all the world like it was flyin'. A Yankee from the West A Novel In the western provinces, we find between three and four hundred thousand people penned up in starvation stations and a prey to all kinds of epidemic diseases. Cuba Its Past, Present, and Future Refusing to be penned up any longer without news of what was happening, Dalroy lowered the ladder, and, after ascertaining that Irene was still asleep, descended. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 He was told to go home and pen up his poultry. Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers Shortly after this Chet and Paul went out to care for the cattle about the place, for quite a few head had already been penned up ready for the early fall drive. Three Young Ranchmen or, Daring Adventures in the Great West When Cortez came back with his eight hundred strangely-acquired recruits, he found the whole city with its mask thrown off, and his men penned up in their barracks. The Spanish Pioneers Will you mind being penned up in a little yard, with strict orders not to come into the grand house? A Modern Wizard Caesar was on the point of retiring to the province, but after repulsing an attack made upon him he was able to pen up Vercingetorix in the fortress of Alesia. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. They were penned up in the fort, like sheep, tamely waiting to be devoured by the fierce wolves that were thirsting for their blood. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 During the night they were kept penned up in sheds, which had been erected for that purpose near the wharf. Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant Within the narrow limits of a week is her soul penned up. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 Five years have gone now, and I am still penned up in this miserable hole, with no power to go abroad, save for a cruise up the Channel, or a run south along the coast. Marguerite De Roberval A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier For months he has been penned up on shipboard, the subject of a discipline more strict than that in any way of life ashore. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea Chief Gall had thought to starve out the soldiers who were penned up, and were being watched by warriors. Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women But his situation was getting very unpleasant, for he was penned up in a corner, with the barn behind him, a high fence on one side and the now angry heifer in front. Happy Days for Boys and Girls It was the present object of Washington to keep those visible signs of English authority penned up within this circle around New York. The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 It is difficult to explain why this is so; but the bather who has made one of four strangers thus closely penned up will appreciate the objection. The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction Instead of meeting our enemies on the street, we had been penned up within our own school. Young Barbarians The other soldiers were penned up, and could be killed, too. Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women They may have thousands on thousands of humans penned up like this, like so many herds of cows, and perhaps they live entirely on the life-blood they milk from them. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 Surely she was not destined to live with Orazio and his tiresome mother, penned up in a shabby little house in Lucca, and there growing old and hideous. Olive in Italy They had the enemy penned up with no hope of reenforcement, and nothing was to be gained by haste or the unnecessary waste of men and equipment. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources Now, we have many instances of reptiles such as lizards and toads penned up in solid rock but surviving for hundreds of years. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 They darted out of doors, and saw a corral, or pound, in which the cattle could be penned up, in case of need. The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas England was no longer penned up on her "tight little isle," and her ships could sail the high seas in comparative safety. Agriculture in Virginia, 1607-1699 All that we have from his pen up to this time has been preserved for us by the light of those great works which he now commenced. The Life of Cicero Volume II. It was the present plan of the Commander in Chief to invest New York and pen up the British there. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia Superficially such forced migrations, and the penning up of inconvenient peoples in narrow "reserves," may appear hard; but it is the only solution of the race-question that is worthy of humanity.... Gems (?) of German Thought Rome had its walls, as New York has its rivers, and they played a like part in penning up the crowds. The Battle with the Slum The hunter now had them at an advantage—in fact, they were regularly penned up for him! The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains More liberty, penned up in two little chambers, and never to leave them all your life, than in a fine large place like Godstowe, with a big garden and cloisters to walk in?” One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford Within a large enclosure, contiguous to the boer’s dwelling, more than five hundred cattle had been penned up during the eight. The Giraffe Hunters "A panther," Charley cried, "a panther, and we penned up here helpless as babes." The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades They saw in it the home of enemies who had robbed them, the prison-house of gallant friends penned up to die of wanton ill-usage in foul ships' holds in the harbour. The Critical Period of American History Our cows are not penned up in pasture fields, but suffered to run at large over the commons. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West He could not bear being penned up any longer; he must at least have a run for his life. The Talking Horse And Other Tales They sure got me penned up here proper! The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers "A fellow can buck up even in present circumstances after being penned up by a mob of rascally Huns." Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Places were set apart for them in the churches, where they were penned up like lepers. The Huguenots in France Such is his strong instinct, he feels his limitation, he is penned up in a narrow life at Ithaca, whose barriers cramp his free spirit. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary "Don't pen up your brilliant ideas when they want to flow." The Rover Boys on the Plains The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch It is observed that the sea is always most dangerous near gulfs, from the currents being penned up by the shores. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. While hesitating in the choice of a word he moves his pen up and down over the paper, and unintentionally touches it. The Detection of Forgery A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents There were, including their officers, twelve men penned up in the big stone chamber, where they had plenty of arms and ammunition. The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War Four times around Ole's feet constituted a pretty fair encore at our dances; and I've seen him pen up as many as three couples in a corner with them when he got those feet tangled. At Good Old Siwash It's downright cruelty, that's what it is, to keep her penned up like that. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 The one they have got penned up here in Ireland can't possibly escape; indeed, according to the newspapers, he is already in the hands of the police. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude I've walked 'outside' in the gardens and nurseries so many years, it seems queer to be penned up indoors and have to scribble letters and open mail. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play You fellows may be glad you weren’t in my shoes when the beast had me penned up in the crevice back of the storehouse.” The Camp in the Snow, or, Besieged by Danger Buffaloes penned up in fields, and not heeding the human beings that passed shouting among them! The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness It was one day when we were out on a ramble, and caught one of the eels in a pool, where it had got penned up by the water having dried around it. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco No dog has been more penned up and chained than I! The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century If we could restrain them from making a rush at the shelving bank, we would have them penned up from any farther advance. The Scalp Hunters Then on to the corral where the horses are penned up. The Death Shot A Story Retold “I’ll be ripping at you with my tongue, because it’s been my style—and I’ll be worse when I’m penned up.” Joan of Arc of the North Woods Any attempt to swim a horse to the other side, would result in his being penned up, as within the lock-gates of a canal! Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Of all these human collaterals who were penned up there with him, he, for the time being, was most precious in the eyes of the law. From Place to Place In this manner indeed, remaining, they were penned up at the ships; animating each other, and raising up their hands to all the gods, they each loudly offered vows. The Iliad of Homer (1873) The approach of the British fleet penned up in Charleston harbor several United States men-of-war and armed vessels, among them the "Providence," "Queen of France," "Boston," "Ranger," "Gen. Moultrie," and "Notre Dame." The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 And if you pen up heat, it turns to light. The Whispering Spheres It is impossible to keep them always penned up. The Expressman and the Detective The basket held more than half a bushel, but there was a "heap" of what Ford Foster called "the crusties" to pen up in the bow of the boat. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 "Too late, captain!" she said, "I could not stay there, penned up in that carriage." French and Oriental Love in a Harem Many of them were evidently very hungry, and had probably been kept penned up for several days before the cars which were to bring them down were sent up for them. Fred Fearnot's New Ranch and How He and Terry Managed It Tell Mr Smith that I shall enter for the ship; and I’ll put my name down at once, instead of being penned up here.” Percival Keene Each soldier had less than nine cartridges, but Washington managed to keep General Gage penned up in Boston, and, as Gage knew very few people there, it was a dull winter for him. Comic History of the United States It really is too bad of old folks, that can’t knock about and enjoy their lives, to pen up young maids like so many sheep. The Gold that Glitters The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender I hate to be penned up where I can’t run away to a place of safety.” The Fortunes of the Farrells General Gage and the troops under his command are penned up, pining in inglorious inactivity. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 New plans to pen up floods of water were prepared, and immense sums were spent in carrying out these plans. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Yes, but they still have me penned up here at the Executive Palace; they're practically keeping me in the safe. The Cosmic Computer I have about three thousand, either confined to their barracks or penned up in the Citadel. A Slave is a Slave She had a flock of sheep washed clean and white, penned up and in waiting. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV He seemed as much out of his natural place as I. How restless and penned up I felt at times no words can tell. Confessions of Boyhood Nobody heard the shot—leastways none of that crowd penned up in the living room will admit they did. Murder at Bridge The unfortunate natives, thus taken by surprise, and penned up like sheep in the enclosure, scarcely offered any resistance; some tried to escape through the gateways, but were repulsed by the troops stationed there. By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico Some, made desperate by finding themselves penned up at the very muzzles of the British guns, dashed through their intervals, but without thinking of using their swords. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes Well, old fellow," he remarked presently to Harry, "why are you penned up here? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. We are penned up like sheep in this unfortunate town. The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 Stone walls do not a prison make; he might as well be here as penned up, useless, in his four acres about the lodge at Ripon House. The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow Such knowledge must be got, not from animals penned up and tortured, but from animals in a state of nature. Damn! A Book of Calumny There is a psychological backing for this assumption, for the irksomeness of being penned up wears and wears until it is not to be borne. Our Navy in the War "We're penned up; whoever has us cornered may now come round and knock us on the head whenever he finds it convenient." The President A novel The hogs had been penned up in due time, the picking up of the dead and wounded being left for the next morning's employment. The Story of My Boyhood and Youth They might even wait for days, keeping the Queres penned up in uncertainty, and then break out as soon as the latter were sufficiently exhausted. The Delight Makers Here refugees had been penned up by the Iroquois till thirst and starvation did their work. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark They knew they would be followed here, penned up, where their capture would only be a question of time. Foes in Ambush Nevertheless, even for these weather-hardened seamen, it cannot have been altogether pleasant penned up in sopping clothes in a dark forepeak with an unseen cutlass waving about in their midst and seizure pending. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 When she returned—through the window—she went to the door and scolded the poor old king for keeping her waiting penned up in her room all the morning. When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth Well, I don't mean to catechize you, though one certainly must get friendly—or the other way—I suppose, penned up in a place like this all night. The Motor Maid If ye go, I guess it'll be aboard a liner, where ye'll be penned up like a rat in a trap. Rod of the Lone Patrol "Why, I feel as if we were all being penned up here and held for the slaughter," gasped one American girl, in a tone of fright. The Submarine Boys and the Spies Dodging the Sharks of the Deep "Ye will be penned up in that Hunza valley like sheep, and I, Fazir Khan, shall be unable to unlock the door of that sheepfold." The Half-Hearted Sustained by their own labor, possessing the interior to which their armies could readily retreat, supplied mainly from native resources, the Americans could not be hemmed in, penned up, and destroyed at one fell blow. History of the United States Dad has often reminded me of that ultimate loophole when I would grow discontented with being penned up in these dumb forests. Burned Bridges She was chokingly ashamed of the predicament—to be penned up by a quarantine in a Moslem household. The Palace of Darkened Windows The aim of France was to connect Canada with Louisiana by a chain of forts, and keep the English penned up in their eastern provinces without room to expand. French and English A Story of the Struggle in America The main body were penned up in Greyfriars Churchyard; many escaped; more signed a promise to remain peaceful, and shun conventicles. A Short History of Scotland People who are never Outside, who only see a little way out over the edge of the little crowd in which they are penned up, are naturally afraid. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy Was it possible that he had been penned up for three years in this stifling place? The Day of the Beast So the provident bear had several months' supply of mutton on the hoof, penned up and growing fat in his private storehouse, and his trail across the entrance was as good as a five-barred gate. Bears I Have Met—and Others There were groans, and yells, and gabble from the reeking and sleepless patients, who had been penned up for the long and terrible night. Sevenoaks In addition to those penned up inside, there were two passengers positioned on top, to the rear of the driver, where they clung to the trunk railings to keep from being jostled off. Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills We've had enough of being penned up in that old house this ever so long; and now we'll have a day in the woods, a picnic all to ourselves. Elsie's children I am merely saying that it is a crime for her to be penned up for life in this—this desert. The Daughter of Anderson Crow The small dispersed garrisons must either through hunger submit themselves to their mercy, or be penned up as sheep to the shambles. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times Mary Erskine laughed still more at this, and said she acknowledged that the children had got her penned up in a corner. Mary Erskine From the finest steel all sorts of things were made, ranging from the smallest needle or steel pen up to the largest-sized gun or armour-plate. From John O'Groats to Land's End I got three horses penned up in a draw and I need your help. Judith of the Godless Valley The gentlemen present were separated from the ladies, and in a very narrow space outside of the chapel men of every nation were penned up together. Italian Journeys Had the British officers at once decided to stretch their men across the island, the 4,000 would have been penned up on the lower part and would have been made prisoners. The Story of Manhattan Indeed, until quite lately, the fairs now carried on in a closed market were held in the open street, the animals being penned up by hurdles. Evesham Friendship loves a free air, and will not be penned up in strait and narrow enclosures. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Poor Goldsmith! what a time must he have had of it, with his quiet Disposition and nervous habits, penned up in this den of noise and vulgarity. Tales of a Traveller He recalled, with peculiar pain, a woodchuck that he had penned up as a boy, and he hoped with extraordinary passion that the poor beast had made another hole. The Fortieth Door Being penned up so long, he'd likely rather take a hike down to the hotel than not. The Rim of the Desert I won't stay penned up 'way out there in the country another day. Scattergood Baines The instinct to make an end of everything, and wilfully and arbitrarily to pen up what is not confined to time and space, is the ugliest trait in human nature. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig They are penned up like a vast flock of sheep in the abbey and the chapel, in the chapel vaults, and within the walls of the Circle of Penance. The Thirsty Sword Never again, he resolved, would he pen up a living creature, never again, if only again he could see the light of day and breathe the free air.... The Fortieth Door What's three dollars a day if you have to be penned up like an animal to earn it? The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol We've got the Little Brass God penned up in the cavern just under this rock! Boy Scouts in Northern Wilds If the cattle and sheep are not penned up at night, they may be partly destroyed by the ferocity of the bears. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 583, December 29, 1832 Being penned up here takes away your appetite. The Way of an Eagle Let me pass”—for she was penned up in the bay window—“I shall seek the landlady till my uncle returns.” A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago There we were, penned up, wrapped in our seal-skins and steamer-rugs and with nubias over our heads, so cold that our teeth chattered, and so hungry we could have eaten anything. As Seen By Me "So you've got the Little Brass God penned up under the hill!" laughed Sandy. Boy Scouts in Northern Wilds In more than one game he had played against its hand, more often for love of the sport than not, but there was a horror in being penned up and tortured by it. The Courage of Captain Plum All the others, which formed the object of his trade, had been penned up in the barracks of the tchitoka, then sold to the brokers from the interior. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen They were planted when the wild fruit was so ripe as to draw off the birds, and while ripening the swine were kept penned up and the horses were tethered with tough bark ropes. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 Worse than being a Chinee and having to sit at the theatre penned up with only females. Elizabeth Visits America I said we had it penned up under the hill. Boy Scouts in Northern Wilds "But he may pine away and die if he is penned up in prison," said the king. Old Greek Stories She loved to play romping games within the high walls of the inclosure where she and the other female attaches of the royal household were kept penned up. The Slim Princess You might just as well keep her penned up here in the yard. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth At nine o'clock went to the Vatican; two large fantails with ostrich feathers; ladies penned up; Pope; cardinals kiss his hand in rotation; address in Latin, tinkling, like water gurgling from a bottle. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. He no longer consorts with courtesans on the public highway, nor pens up half a hundred wives in a harem, then goes broke buying concubines. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 So I say press and still press there, destroy the railway to the Lakes, burn her capital, pen up every Englishman in Mombasa island. Greenmantle Why, I think we shall have the fowl stole before we are much older, wi' that gell forgetting to lock the pens up o' nights. Adam Bede Unconsciously he began popping the button of his ball-point pen up and down with his thumb. Undo, a Novel By Joe Hutsko The French people are penned up in three or four flocks, receiving their signal from a chief, responding to the voice of a leader, and thinking just as he says. What is Property? Long enough," he said, "to know that all of us are making a big and cruel mistake in taking them at their word, and leaving them penned up there weltering in misery. Laddie; a true blue story Whoever has been inside the theatre named has probably noticed the peculiar construction, or rather location, of the enclosure wherein we manipulators of melody are penned up. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 What a system of simagrée it is, after all! and how can honest human nature bear to be penned up all its days by the Chinese paling of ceremony, or that French filigree work, politesse? Tales and Novels — Volume 06 For eleven months and ten days he had been penned up in one of the steel cages of Covington jail. The Under Dog Then the savage shepherd drove his flocks out of the cave, only turning back to set the boulder in the doorway and pen up Odysseus and his men in their dismal lodging. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew This is an example of the ecstasy of hero-worship; it is begging the question to assume that whatever Shakespeare did was perfect; humanity cannot be penned up even in Shakespeare's brain. The Man Shakespeare Since the loss of Plemmyrium, the Athenian fleet had been penned up in the confined space at the head of the Great Harbour. Stories from Thucydides After the beast was securely penned up I was riding homewards more than a little tired, rumpled and heated and very eager for a bath. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire If the incision is small and the operation is followed by swelling of the neighboring tissues, the clotted blood, wound secretions and pus become penned up in the scrotal sack. Common Diseases of Farm Animals The spouse of Christ, his church, at times as it were penned up by its persecutors, and in fears, expecting the divine assistance, here signified by his hand: and ver. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 24: Canticle of Canticles The Challoner Revision You know what C. Flaminius, the consul, said when by Hannibal's policy he was penned up near the lake of Peruse, alias Thrasymene. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 In the meantime the Syracusans closed the mouth of their harbour with a strong boom, penning up the Athenian fleet. Authors of Greece If Quib once got the woodchuck penned up among those rocks, they could play hide-and-seek for him till they should find him. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories "But you do think I'm broader and wiser and more open-minded and have better judgment on matters in general than I had when I was penned up here in Marion, don't you?" All-Wool Morrison Sommers heard in the midst of all the roar the piteous bellowing of cattle, penned up in the cars. The Web of Life After all, what were they fit for, but the dirty work they were penned up to do? King Coal : a Novel "Poor little wild Laurel had to go back, it was almost as cruel to keep her as to pen up a brown bunny." The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island It's great after being penned up all day at that hotel," agreed Peggy, who was at the wheel, "how beautiful the stars are. The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise A large part of their stores was spoiled; and the number of the sheep had also been reduced to forty, in consequence of their being foolishly kept penned up on board. The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work Such a cackling of ducks, chickens, and ganders; such a lowing of oxen, and bleating of lambkins, penned up here and there along the deck, to provide sea repasts for the officers. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War He was a prisoner--penned up in a desolate room in the heart of a wilderness. The Danger Trail The basket held more than half a bushel, but there was still a "heap" of what Ford Foster called "the crusties" to pen up in the bow of the boat. Dab Kinzer A Story of a Growing Boy It was time they did, for Beckford was now penned up well within its own twenty-five line, and the Nomad halves were appealing pathetically to their forwards to let that ball out, for goodness' sake. A Prefect's Uncle All the smells and noises of the East Side seemed to be penned up here in a sort of canyon. The Prince and Betty Alas, Miss Calhoun, it is true," said he sadly, "I am penned up here where I cannot fight back. Beverly of Graustark Sickness, old age, childhood penned up in such places that one shuddered to go into them. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland They were so many sheep penned up in a conveyance. The Grey Lady The clergy were all penned up together in the cloisters of the Abbaye, whither they had been brought in carriages that morning. A Book of Golden Deeds The Virginia colonel was commander-in-chief; a motley army held Sir William Howe penned up in Boston, and why he so quietly accepted this sheep-like fate no man of us could comprehend. Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker Washington at once made every exertion to relieve their wants, and in the meantime kept Gage penned up in Boston. A Brief History of the United States The baying of these dogs, penned up, had been incessant. The Law of the Land "So far we've been treated like lords, but I don't like the idea of being penned up in this cabin," said Harry. The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest There was about him an infinite pathos, penned up there in his old age among the tenements of Mulberry Street on the pay of a second-rate clerk, that never ceased to appeal to me. The Making of an American His Excellency had gone to watch Sir Guy Carleton penned up in New York. Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker We have seen barasingha deer penned up between shock-absorbing bales of hay seriously try to jump straight up through a roof skylight nine feet from the floor. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations She would have been robbed, truly, in that mad whirl of human devils penned up there under the chassepots of the guards on the walls. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance "I like to be out on deck in bad weather and not penned up in a cubby hole." The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest They are like sheep penned up in the shambles, that the butcher may take his choice among them. Peveril of the Peak The prisoners were kept penned up in this place for several weeks, and all the time more were being brought in; there were so many that the women had to be stored in the toilets. 100%: the Story of a Patriot Said parent, however, being a man of the world as well, tried to evade an argument and escape, but was penned up in a corner for ten purple minutes. The Motormaniacs The gallant, chivalrous little man, penned up with hoboes and sneak thieves suspected of being a crook… as if I couldn't take care of myself! Parnassus on Wheels Any of the breeds are all right to pen up and feed. One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered What fiendish trick have you played on those wretches penned up inside there? Number Seventeen Since Frank had been penned up where he could not fight, she had felt that she was the champion for their mutual interests, and she was resolved to keep on valiantly. When Egypt Went Broke In the creek, penned up in the pools, were unlimited quantities of it, and she had encountered no other bear to challenge her possession of it. Nomads of the North A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars No, he was too beautiful to be penned up in an office from nine to six-thirty every day of his life. The Fortunate Youth "Where the Indians will find them ready penned up and at their mercy," quickly interpolated the priest "That will not do." Alice of Old Vincennes Great numbers of cattle were penned up near the village. The Dragon and the Raven "I suppose what a girl really enjoys is to see the world, after she has been penned up all her life in a town like this." When Egypt Went Broke After you've lived out of doors a long time you feel penned up in houses. The Guns of Bull Run A Story of the Civil War's Eve If for no other reason, I myself won't be able to stand being penned up indefinitely. Children of the Whirlwind She's penned up as if she were a dangerous beast, the poor girl. Alice of Old Vincennes I wish now that I had gone with Scott, for I can't be penned up in this tent a week.' A Summer in a Canyon I rather think, says he, that abundance of heat penned up in the body consumes the nourishment, and that failing, the fire as it were goes out. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies You can carry that pen up, or down, or sideways; it doesn't care. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) We, your Brethren, of the several Nations, are penned up like Hoggs. The Old Northwest : A chronicle of the Ohio Valley and beyond She was gone; and Hilary, with a sigh, took his pen up, but he wrote nothing down .... Fraternity All the smells and noises, which are many and varied, are penned up in a sort of canyon, and gain in vehemence from the fact. Psmith, Journalist And you ain't got me penned up in a house, neither. The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights The pig is penned up with his potatoes, and the rest of us wallow in banknotes. Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau Their former traveling companion, captured like them at the telegraph office, knew that they were penned up with him in the enclosure, guarded by numerous sentinels, but he did not wish to accost them. Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar It almost pays a man to be penned up for a time to enable him to appreciate what there is in the world for him. The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries I saw our army penned up in a little narrow valley where the roads were quagmires, so that our guns were stuck in the mud, our horses up to their knees, our men floundering. Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger It was like old times to see the fat cattle and sheep penned up at Flemington, and the butchers riding out on their spicy nags or driving trotters. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields As to the prisoners, they were to be penned up in some enclosure, where, ill-treated, poorly fed, and exposed to all the inclemencies of the weather, they would await Feofar's pleasure. Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar |
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