All 6 Uses of
hoard
in
The Waves
- But I attach myself only to names and faces; and hoard them like amulets against disaster.†
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- I have not yet broken into my hoard.†
- I now break into my hoard of life.†
- I am no hoarder—I shall leave only a cupboard of old clothes when I die—and I am almost indifferent to the minor vanities of life which cause Louis so much torture.†
- Days and days are to come; winter days, summer days; we have scarcely broken into our hoard.†
- And then Neville, Jinny, Susan and I, as a wave breaks, burst asunder, surrendered—to the next leaf, to the precise bird, to a child with a hoop, to a prancing dog, to the warmth that is hoarded in woods after a hot day, to the lights twisted like white ribbon on rippled waters.†
Definition:
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(hoard) to gather something valuable and store it; or a collection of such things