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Example sentences for "close arrest"

  • Nor shall I be out of close arrest by that time, either.

  • Mr. Prescott, you are ordered in close arrest in your quarters until further orders.

  • Confined to quarters in close arrest, Cadet Prescott put in more than two miserable hours endeavoring to get that letter written.

  • I am told, sir, that my son is in close arrest," she called, in a voice that thrilled the cadet.

  • Alencon and Her Husband, under a Close Arrest, Regain Their Liberty by the Death of Charles IX.

  • To such a height had these jealousies risen that the Marechaux de Montmorency and de Cosse were put under a close arrest, and La Mole and the Comte de Donas executed.

  • Mr. Ross, you are hereby placed in close arrest, and confined to your tent.

  • A most popular and prominent young officer had been placed in close arrest.

  • That was the condition of affairs when the eighth, and final, day of Lanier's close arrest arrived.

  • Arrived at his quarters, Loring calmly wrote a dispatch to the assistant in the office of the Chief of Engineers at Washington, saying so many words: "Placed in close arrest because of previous telegrams.

  • He raved about tyranny and oppression, but vouchsafed no intelligible explanation of what he confessed to be the commanding officer's latest order--that he was remanded to close arrest.

  • Major Plume, through Mr. Doty, his adjutant, had felt it necessary to remind Captain Wren that an officer in close arrest had no right to be away from his quarters.

  • Not until nearly an hour later was it generally known that Captain Wren had been escorted to his quarters by the post adjutant and ordered to remain therein in close arrest.

  • Captain Wren, after four days of close arrest, had been released by the order of Major Plume himself, who, pending action on his application for leave of absence, had gone on sick report and secluded himself within his quarters.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    close approach; close behind; close column; close confinement; close contact; close covered; close fight; close observer; close proximity; close quarters; close support; close together; closed circuit; closed eyes; closed system; closely akin; closely bound; closely resembling; closely similar; closer examination; closer union; musical compositions; savoir faire; then answered; this argument; three eyes