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With a shiver, I closed the door, and made my way, quietly, up to bed.

I closed my eyes, and sat there in a state of drowsy, semi-unconsciousness.

" There was a moment's silence; then Thurston rose from his chair, and closing his book flung it down with a bang upon the table.

Miss Hassiebrock entered with her face wry, made a diagonal cut of the room, side-stepping a patent rocker and a table laid out with knickknacks on a lace mat, slammed closed two windows, and, turning inward, lifted off her hat, which left a brand across her forehead and had plastered down her hair in damp scallops.

"Close the gate and put every man to his post, for the danger is at hand.

" The colonel opened and closed his lips foolishly like a fish gasping silently out of water.

The water there will close your chattering mouth!'

If anything cropped up subsequently about the stick he could say that he had left it there before Sir Horace closed up his house and went to Scotland.

Then I shut the window, and closed the shutters.

And one of his great charities Is music; and it doth not scorn To close the lids upon the eyes Of the weary and forlorn.

"I cannot close the brief account of this glorious stand of the British troops without putting on record my deep appreciation of the valuable services rendered by Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien.

Just heaven forbids their words should blot the honor of my name, For pure and faithful is my heart, howe'er my foes defame; And Zaida, lovely Zaida, at a word that did me wrong, Would close her ears in scornful ire and curse the slanderous tongue.

But afore I close this letter let me speak a word for your noble prisoner, L. NAPOLEON,

He had come at last to close quarters with her.

With this Venetian blind we beg leave to close this scene.

However, I have taken the liberty in this chapter to condense from the little volume, and in some places I have used the identical language of General Davies without quoting the same; in fact, to do the General justice, I ought to close this chapter with several lines of quotation marks to be pretty generally distributed by the reader throughout my account of our ten days' hunt.

When this was written Ali Pasha was still living; but the prediction which it implies was soon after verified, and he closed his stern and energetic life with a catastrophe worthy of its guilt and bravery.

Phirouz lived to be a second time a renegade, and to close his career as a thief.

he cried, closing his hands softly about her throat and tilting her head backward again.

Not even then, however, did they receive into their line the terrified and exasperated troops, but, closing their ranks, drove them out of the scene of action to the wings and the surrounding plain, lest they should mingle these soldiers, terrified with defeat and wounds, with that part of their line which was firm and fresh.

It was Saturday night, and Mr. Hardwick was closing his shop.

Wilt thou close a bargain with me and take six marks for thine outfit?" "Now may the blessings of all the saints fall on thine honest head!" cried the Butcher right joyfully, as he leaped down from his cart and took the purse that Robin held out to him.

He gave her a courteous little bow, but it was one which plainly closed the subject.

It was now only the day after the events whose narration closed the preceding volume.

"The undersigned cannot close this communication without expressing to you and to the king his own unaffected appreciation of this noble and distinguished act of justice, so promptly and so generously bestowed upon his unobtrusive countrywoman by the king of Denmark, and avails himself of the occasion to renew to your Excellency the assurance of his most distinguished consideration.

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