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Nook   /nʊk/   Listen
Nook

noun
1.
A sheltered and secluded place.
2.
An interior angle formed by two meeting walls.  Synonym: corner.



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"Nook" Quotes from Famous Books



... turned, you talked the more. Through all our literature your way you took With modest ease; yet would you soonest pore, Smiling, with most affection in your look, On the ripe ancient and the curious nook. Sage travellers, learnd printers, Divines and buried poets, You knew them all, but never half your lore Was drawn from ...
— Georgian Poetry 1920-22 • Various
... around the drive and roared away. Larry mounted to the piazza. Dick was waiting for him, and excitedly drew him down to one corner that crimson ramblers had woven into a nook for confidences. ...
— Children of the Whirlwind • Leroy Scott
... From the nook ahead of him in which the enemy had ensconced himself came a sudden rapid rattle of rifle-shots. His friend back in the trench was doing his part. The man was awake—on the alert. It would be something of a fair fight, he thought ...
— And Thus He Came • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... custodian's bell, a smiling maid who let them into an ante-room, where she kept on picking over vegetables for her dinner, said the custodian was busy, and could not be seen till ten o'clock. She seemed, in her nook of the pretentious pile, as innocently unconscious of its history as any hen-sparrow who had built her nest in some coign of its architecture; and her friendly, peaceful domesticity remained a wholesome human background ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... to thy ray, From every nook of earth shall cluster; And kings and princes haste to pay Their homage to thy ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al


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