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Bound up   /baʊnd əp/   Listen
Bound up

adjective
1.
Closely or inseparably connected or associated with.
2.
Deeply devoted to.  Synonym: wrapped up.  "Is wrapped up in his family"






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"Bound up" Quotes from Famous Books



... to comply and bound up the gaping cut as well as he could with the means at his command. While Charley lay back and gritted his teeth to keep back the moans ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely

... same; and no man uttered it, and never in a human heart was it conceived. WHY should I not?—Because the doctrine evacuates of all sense and efficacy the sure and constant tradition, that all the several books bound up together in our precious family Bible were composed in different and widely-distant ages, under the greatest diversity of circumstances, and degrees of light and information, and yet that the composers, ...
— Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit etc. • by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... until then, we laid aside our weapons, mopped the perspiration and powder grime from our streaming brows, bound up each other's wounds, and went forward to inspect the results of Murdock's little experiment. It had been exceedingly effective, for scattered round the spot where the explosion had occurred we found no less than nineteen savages, of whom eleven were dead, five were more ...
— Turned Adrift • Harry Collingwood

... at the floor without a sign of life, a brooding expression on his face; his very soul was shuddering at the foreboding of a superhuman burden; and suddenly a light was flashed before his eyes; there could never be happiness for him alone—the fairy-tale was dead! He was bound up with all the others—he must partake of happiness or misfortune with them; that was why the unfortunate Due gave him his blessing. In his soul he was conscious of Due's difficult journey, as though he himself ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... the man's forehead, and bound up the cut with surgeon's plaster from the van. The man fell silent, looking at him in wonderment ...
— Blazed Trail Stories - and Stories of the Wild Life • Stewart Edward White


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