"Pen up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to be great friends and rapidly exchanged a stock of small news and confidences. I felt bashful about drawing near them, to receive an introduction; but Ellen brought her young neighbor around, near where I was helping the other boys pen up the sheep, and informed her that I was the new cousin who had come to live at the farm, and hence that we must needs become acquainted. Catherine and I did not become much ...
— When Life Was Young - At the Old Farm in Maine • C. A. Stephens
... added Bess, brushing away a tear. "Poor little wild Laurel had to go back, it was almost as cruel to keep her as to pen up ...
— The Motor Girls On Cedar Lake - The Hermit of Fern Island • Margaret Penrose
... not going to Bentley Hall to sit mewed up in my mistress' chamber, turning up the whites of my eyes, and singing Psalms through my nose. I mean to lead a jolly life there, I can tell you, for all Grandmother. 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. I shall never be young but once, and I want ...
— The Gold that Glitters - The Mistakes of Jenny Lavender • Emily Sarah Holt |
