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  • Francie lay there in his appointed hiding-hole, looking abroad between two whin-bushes.

    Lay Morals 2005

  • He had challenged the public to a game at bo-peep, and if he was discovered in his ‘hiding-hole,’ he must submit to the shame of detection.

    Waverley 2004

  • And then my thoughts, did not they form a similar sort of hiding-hole, in the depths of which I felt that I could bury myself and remain invisible even when I was looking at what went on outside?

    Swann's Way 2003

  • You will take the Slaver disintegrator from my 'cycle and use it to dig us a hiding-hole.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

  • You will take the Slaver disintegrator from my 'cycle and use it to dig us a hiding-hole.

    Ringworld Niven, Larry, 1938- 1970

  • They found some growths that glowed only faintly and tugged them into place, thicker and thicker, until the little nook where Chiquita lay became a dim green hiding-hole.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • Gollum was brought out of some corner or hiding-hole, and he seemed better pleased with himself than he had been, though he kept close to Frodo and avoided the glance of Faramir.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • Southwick, where, according to one story, in a cottage at the west of the Green was a hiding-hole in which the King lay until Captain Nicholas

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • The outcry all over the country was loud and vengeful, and my lord lay concealed for fifteen years in a hiding-hole contrived in the masonry of

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • The spare sails forward, the readily accessible hiding-hole of the green-hand, afforded less secure concealment.

    The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

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