The loss of the total sum was more than the cooperative could stand, however, and after struggling along for a few months, it closed its doors.

This had forced the association to start with so small an operating capital that it was soon badly embarrassed for lack of funds and could do nothing but close its doors.

At this juncture, the Chicago headquarters suddenly went into the hands of a receiver and the New York office closed its doors.

In the first place while a number of small groceries closed their doors, the larger cooperatives have grown larger and more prosperous.

Granted that it was a grief which would inevitably wear itself out, as other such griefs have done from time immemorial; but still the sorrow was there, at their doors.

You are just letting yourself fade away.' 'If you knew how I hate the world and the sky, Mary, you wouldn't urge me to go out of doors,' Lesbia answered, moodily.

Thus, in broken fragments of speech, Mrs. Steadman lamented over her dead, while the heavy pendulum of the eight-day clock in the hall sounded the slowly-passing moments, until the coming of the doctor broke upon the quiet of the house, with the noise of opening doors and approaching footsteps.

Great numbers of sheep and goats were browsing over the hills or lying around the doors of the houses.

Doors opened from the proscenium into the retiring-rooms of the actors, under which were the vaults where the beasts were kept.

Thus for a few minutes, and then the swinging doors leading from the street clicked, and a gentleman entered.

In society, of the two forms, which are both looked upon as necessary together, the blessing of the Church is considered by far the more indispensable, though most people acknowledge the importance and validity of the other, as well as its wisdom; and society, as an aristocratic body, as a rule refuses absolutely to receive within its doors an Italian couple who have not been married by a priest.

Why are not the folding-doors of the temple of Concord open?

During the daytime the child was mostly out of doors, and all the strangers who came to see the church, praised the child's beauty and sense, and all the neighbors, and all the villagers, and the very schoolboys grew to have a fondness for poor Nell.

There's doors under the church in the Squareblack doors leading into black vaults.

There's doors under the church in the Squareblack doors leading into black vaults.

I'd open one of those doors, and I'd cram 'em all in, and then I'd lock the door and through the keyhole I'd blow in pepper."

"What's the news out of doors?" "What's the news indoors?" returned Lizzie playfully, smoothing the bright long fair hair, which grew very luxuriant and beautiful on the head of the dolls' dressmaker.

They heard the doors of rooms above opening and shutting, as Sissy went from one to another in quest of her father.

At half past one Mr. Holcombe wrote a note, and sent it off with Terry, and borrowing my boots, which had been Mr. Pitman's, investigated the dining-room and kitchen from a floating plank; the doors were too narrow to admit the boat.

" Rollo ran into the house with great haste and eagerness, leaving all the doors open, and calling out, "Father, father," as soon as he had begun to open the parlor door.

His mother, who was there, and who heard all that passed, as the doors were open, said to him, as he walked by her, "What a foolish way that was to ask him, Rollo!

It rained very fast, and they could not go out of doors; and, after proposing several things, which, however, neither of them seemed to like, they turned to Rollo's mother, and asked her what they had better do.

Family discussion and deliberation was seldom with closed doors.

The doors were shut; no spectators were allowed to hear what was said; no reports of the debates were taken down; but under a strict injunction to secrecy the members went on deliberating day after day.

Now my brother whistles and slams doors just like this young Russian.