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Definition of Hole-in-corner
1. Adjective. Relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life. "A hole-and-corner life in some obscure community"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hole-in-corner
Literary usage of Hole-in-corner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Amuse Yourself and Others: The American Girl's Handy Book by Lina Beard, Adelia Belle Beard (1898)
"374 Hole in Corner of Box for Book-shelves. In like manner put the other rod in
place through the other pile of boxes. If the packing-box has a cover, ..."
2. A Handbook for Travellers in Spain by Richard Ford (1855)
"These spring and catch tools, always prohibited by law, have always been made,
sold, and used openly. The gipsies, being great hole-in-corner men and ..."
3. Atoms of Empire by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1904)
"Finest sort of entertainment imaginable that, Schwartz, when you're at some
hole-in-corner foreign town, to go and solemnly pull the leg of the British ..."
4. Colonial Mobile: An Historical Study Largely from Original Sources, of the by Peter Joseph Hamilton (1910)
"But, remembering the extent of its actual territory, it can hardly be said that
her annals were merely hole-in-corner history, as the satirical advocate of ..."
5. The War from this Side: Editorials from the North American, Philadelphia by North American (1917)
"These are the concerns of their betters—of those same "trusted representatives"
who precipitated the conflict by their hole- in-corner intrigues. ..."
6. Hellenistic Pottery and Terracottas by Homer A. Thompson, Dorothy Burr Thompson (1987)
"Mouth pierced; hole in corner of left jaw (for firing?). Upper part of cornucopia
hollow. Chin and neck of figure that held cornucopia high against left ..."
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