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tucked away

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tucked away
hidden or difficult to find. Van's house is tucked away at the end of the road.
See also: away, tuck

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It was plump, one afternoon, in the middle of my very hour: the children were tucked away, and I had come out for my stroll.
I was a terrible dreamer, I would dream for three months on end, tucked away in my corner, and you may believe me that at those moments I had no resemblance to the gentleman who, in the perturbation of his chicken heart, put a collar of German beaver on his great-coat.
"Why, it's a fairyland," explained Dorothy, "and lots of queer people live in places so tucked away that those in the Emerald City never even hear of
 
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