His face was very pale and his lips tightly shut.

They shut up water tight in a great kettle and heat it.

Having reached this sensible conclusion, he was about to turn away from the garden gate which he now stood facing, when he heard the house door softly open and as softly shut.

The volumes of vapor, rolling heavily over the waters, effectually shut out from sight whatever was passing at any considerable distance, unless when a fresher breeze dispelled the smoke for a moment, or the flashes of the heavy guns threw a transient gleam over the dark canopy of battle.

The King turned pale, and shut his notebook hastily.

At the crash Mr. Merrick involuntarily shut down the machine, and then they all stood around and looked gloomily at the smash-up and wondered if the damage was irreparable.

She shrank instinctively at the first sight of herself, and opened the drawer where the crimson cape was folded, but shut it resolutely.

Again, if you are so ready to accuse yourself for dispensing with the prohibitions of the most unreasonable parents, which yet were but half- prohibitions at first, what ought those to do, who wilfully shut their ears to the advice of the most reasonable; and that perhaps, where apparent ruin, or undoubted inconvenience, is the consequence of the predetermined rashness?

It has appeared already, to those who do not obstinately shut their eyes, that there is in it no provision for the prevention of that abuse of spirits which universally prevails.

"Say another word and I'll drag you from Nellie and make you run the car," retorted Dick, and then Tom shut up promptly.

Mr. Trius, after violently shutting the gate, had immediately turned his back upon the visitors.

He realized that the gate overhung with wild vine and ivy was shut against him by that careless, capricious hand more firmly and more inexorably than ever it could have been by the bolts and bars of the most prudish virtue.

And the little shutter was sharply shut in Sarrion's face.

When war virtually shut off Jerusalem from the outer world the lot of the poor became precarious.

Mr. Murdstone said, finally, he would only take me back unconditionally, and that if I did not return there and then his doors would be shut against me henceforth.

As he turned to step forth again the door gently closed with an ominous click, shutting him inside.

" He obeyed, deliberately shut out of his thoughts the warning she had given him, and let himself go, body and mind, so that, a sway to the sensuous strains of that most sensuous of dances, the girl and the man for a space seemed one with music that throbbed of love and longing, desire and denial, pursuit and retreat, surrender and conquest....

There was still a dead calm, and by going on board I should merely have been shutting myself up in a prison from which there was no escape.

The press started half a dozen times, only to be shut down abruptly before it had printed a single impression.

He turned and glanced at her retreating figure, and her head was bent low, and her right hand, hanging by her side, opened and shut twice convulsively, in his sight.

Maria and her younger sisters were literally shut up within the narrow limits of the apartments they occupied in the palacehappily for them it was not the Palazzo Vecchio but the more roomy Pitti, with its lovely Boboli Gardens.

Running aft to get a glass, as they distanced him, he discovered a fog had sprang up, and was shutting in heavily on all sides; he returned to mark the boats; they were nowhere to be seen; he had lost them entirely; nothing was to be seen on all sides but thick fog banks!

She effects her purpose; but, in retreating from its discoverers, is accidentally shut out of the gate through which she had left the city.

Mr. Hollams is safely shut up by this time, I expect, and you are avenged for your little trouble with him this afternoon.

The bookcases displayed the same rows of volumes; the large oaken press seemed to guard within its sides the same treasure, securely shut in.