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Tied up   /taɪd əp/   Listen
Tied up

adjective
1.
Kept occupied or engaged.  "The phone was tied up for almost an hour"





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"Tied up" Quotes from Famous Books



... should have relied upon our ponies' staying even if they had not been tied up; you know what good camp horses they are. Let's go out and see which ...
— The Boys of Crawford's Basin - The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado • Sidford F. Hamp
... to what I consider a very dangerous class of publications. These novels and romances are awfully destructive to our youth. I should recommend you, as a young mahn of principle, to burn the vollum. At least I hope you will not leave it about anywhere unless it is carefully tied up. I have written upon the paper round it to warn off all the young persons of my household from ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 • Various
... it, child. Don't think me hard or cruel, for I know your feelin's as well as if they was mine; but all the same, I've got to look ahead, and back'ards, and on this side and that, and so lookin', and so judgin', accordin' to my light, which a'n't all tied up in a napkin, what I've got to say is, and ag'in don't think me ...
— The Story Of Kennett • Bayard Taylor
... whites had been there. They had certainly chosen a very bad camp in the centre of a box scrub with native huts within 150 to 200 yards of them. On further examination we found the dung of camels and horse or horses, evidently tied up a long time ago. Between that and the grave we found another grave, evidently dug with a spade or shovel, and a lot of human hair of two colours, that had become decomposed, on the skin of the skull, ...
— McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia • John McKinlay
... the roof. The wind blew keenly through a thousand apertures in the log walls; and nothing could exceed the uncomfortableness of our situation. For a long time the box which contained a hammer and nails was not to be found. At length Hannah discovered it, tied up with some bedding which she was opening out in order to dry. I fortunately spied the door lying among some old boards at the back of the house, and Moodie immediately commenced fitting it to its place. ...
— Roughing it in the Bush • Susanna Moodie


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