Nook

(noun.) a sheltered and secluded place.

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• High on the upper deck, in a little nook among the everywhere predominant cotton-bales, at last we may find him. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• In the complete obscurity, Birkin found a comparatively sheltered nook, where a great rope was coiled up. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• 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. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• It was furnished partly as a sitting and partly as a bedroom, with flowers arranged daintily in every nook and corner. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• 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. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The labour of hundreds of thousands alone could make this inclement nook fit habitation for one man. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Anguish has driven her from the ingle-nook of home to the white-shrouded and icy hills. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It would not require many visits to discover that in this room, also, Edison has a favorite nook. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I believe it none the less because that nook is in a Church, and she was weak and erring. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Good cheer had opened his heart, for he left me a nook of pasty and a flask of wine, instead of my former fare. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• They searched every nook and corner round, together and separately; they shouted, whistled, laughed, called--and all with the same result. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She idly watched him as he occasionally climbed up in the nook of the bank and stood beside the brands. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The last flower attended to was a rose-tree, which bloomed in a quiet green nook at the back of the house. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• After such occupation, I visited every street, alley, and nook of Forli. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Curious little nooks in a great place, like London, these old inns are. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I know his ways, and the likely nooks he favours. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• They had shrunk past homeless people, lying coiled up in nooks. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Our England is a bonny island, said Shirley, and Yorkshire is one of her bonniest nooks. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• We will first peep into one or two other nooks of this nutshell, he replied. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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