No sooner had she entered the little closet than she found herself alone, with one of her own sex.

"I had searched the hall-rack for them; I had searched his closets; and was about owning myself to be on a false trail, when I spied this little door.

I went, with some reluctance at leaving my closet, my dark walk, and even my aunt, who had been such a source of both love and terror to me.

One summer day, however, she resigned herself to the task and when she opened the closet the moths flew out.

"I found a funny old closet yesterday," said Billie, as they came out into the musty attic.

I cleaned out the water closets.

"I was afraid to pass a closed closet alone after dark," one of these says.

Now will I leave you, lords, from courtly train To dwell content amidst my country cave, Where no ambitious humours shall approach The quiet silence of my happy sleep: Where no delicious jouissance or toys Shall tickle with delight my temper'd ears; But wearying out the lingering day with toil, Tiring my veins, and furrowing of my soul, The silent night, with slumber stealing on, Shall lock these careful closets of mine eyes.

In the obscurest corner of the room stood a tall and narrow oaken closet, with its door ajar, within which doubtfully appeared a skeleton.

" For an hour or two before supper time, Miss Panney occupied herself in clearing out her medicine closet.

The dog had returned home and finding his master gone, had examined the closet, the door of which had been left ajar, and found the gun gone while the flask was left; he seemed to know this ought not to be, and seizing the flask in his mouth he pursued his master and carried him the important article.

Each contained two clothes closets, two beds, two bookshelves, a bureau, a reading table, two plain chairs and a rocker.

And, pushing open a small door let into the under part of the stairway (if Ranelagh in his prison cell could have seen and understood this movement!), he disclosed a closet and in that closet a coat or two, and one derby hat.

He crosses with his grand airs, in the midst of the whole court, the rooms which preceded the prince's closet; the crowd opens and makes way for him respectfully.

In the angles of the room there were projecting closets, which might have been what they seemed, or merely passages into the other apartments of the palace.

They rented a little closet for him, on the fifth floor of the house, over their own room, and they nursed him and bought him food and clothes with his pension-money, to which they added a good deal of their own.

So next morning, in order to save the ripening fruit on a rather small tree of choice variety, I thought I should put up a scarecrow, and to this end rummaged a closet for some last winter's old clothes.

She thought that she would scour the closet at night, and surprise her father by finishing those list slippers; She kissed him when she had tied on the red hood, and said good-by to Dick, and told them just where to find the squash-pie for dinner.

This she opened, and, striking a light, showed an ordinary closet, with pegs for hanging garments upon.

She laid her hand on a little box wrapped and tied, then quickly shut the closet.

In a few minutes, therefore, she went out of the room, and took from the store closet an apple and a pear.

Bedrooms were multiplied and enlarged; and fireplaces were introduced into every room, transforming the arctic "powdering-closet" into a habitable dressing-room.

All day long she trotted up and down, up and down; ransacking closets, chests, barrels; sorting and resorting, and forgetting as fast as she sorted.

When thy face looketh forth from all men's faces, There will be room enough in crowded marts; Brood thou around me, and the noise is o'er; Thy universe my closet with shut door.

" In a room on a lower floor she unlocked a closet, the walls of which were lined with shelves.