Read full poem →Nay, even the parts of shame by name would call:
Yea, when she passèd by or lane or nook,
Would greet the man who turn'd him to the wall,
Dictionary Entry
A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove.
In a Sentence
“There was a small broom for sweeping ash kept in the nook between the fireplace bricks and the wall.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. nookfarm nooknook breakfastnook littlenook shelterednook quietnook shadynook secluded
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Poetry examples for “nook”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →By the time they called me to dinner I was able to pull up my clothing and
walk to the breakfast nook where we ate all our meals except on Sunday.
There were two pillows on my chair. Isat on them but my legs and ass still
Read full poem →And perfect for the Summer, less the flower;
In nook of pale or crevice of crude bark,
Thou canst not miss,
Read full poem →By each spot the most unholy--
In each nook most melancholy,--
Read full poem →The sun seeks out my garden,
No nook is left in shade,
No mist nor mold nor mildew
Read full poem →The sun seeks out my garden,
No nook is left in shade,
No mist nor mould nor mildew
Read full poem →Ever turn back and climb the waterfall
To the lake that rests and stirs not in its nook,
As in the hollow of the collar-bone
Read full poem →"Yes, with my furniture and family
Still in it, I, knowing every nook of it
And loving none, and in fact hating it."
Read full poem →Through the velvety wind V-winged
To the nest's nook I balance and buoy
With a sweet joy of a sweet joy,
Read full poem →Oh, this world is but a rude world, and hurts a thing so fair;
Was there a nook in which the world had never been to sear,
That place would prove a paradise when thou and Love were near.