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Thanis 'brother Balin has gone to the Gates of Death, which is very bad if in his anger at his city's loss he looses what Ban Cruach stived to hold in check.

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Many a time they had gone tearing past Leslie Manor when the girls were stived up within and been exasperated at being "so near and yet so far," as an old song puts it.

A Dixie School Girl

The air, which the day before had been painfully hot and stived, was cool and fresh, and from flowers and spice-trees, on which the dew still lay, went forth a thousand fragrant exhalations.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

"I think it is perfectly outrageous to keep them stived up in that horrid place year in and year out for four years with only four months to call their own in one-thousand-four-hundred-and-sixty days!"

Peggy Stewart at School

I just won't stay stived up here while all the girls are having such fun in the gym.

A Dixie School Girl

Windows and doors were all securely closed, so as to prevent draught, for nothing is so bad as draught when you are hot, and nothing makes you so hot as being stived by hundreds in a narrow space without draught.

The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins Brampton, Henry H 1904

Girls of your age are apt to be faint and lollopy-like, as you may say; especially when they're stived up in a smoky place like London.

Charlotte's Inheritance 1875

When, three days afterward, Captain Traverse unclosed his eyes from a dream of Gehenna and the place the smoke of whose torment goes up for ever, a strange confusion crept like a haze across his mind, tired out and tortured with delirium, and he dropped the aching lids and fell away into slumber again; for he had thought himself vexed with the creak of cordage and noise of feet, stived in his dark and narrow cabin, on a filthy bed in

Not Pretty, but Precious Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford 1878

I have one half of the house to myself; and that the best; for the great enjoy that least which costs them most: grandeur and use are two things: the common part is their's; the state part is mine: and here I lord it, and will lord it, as long as I please; while the two pursy sisters, the old gouty brother, and the two musty nieces, are stived up in the other half, and dare not stir for fear of meeting me: whom, (that's the jest of it,) they have forbidden coming into their apartments, as I have them into mine.

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 Samuel Richardson 1725

"Stand close to the wall underneath the window, and let me get on your shoulder; it may hurt a bit, but we can't stay stived up in here all night.

Caps and Capers A Story of Boarding-School Life 1897