There are those who may see merit in both, without making themselves partisans of either, and with this reflection I close the subject.
Filled with consternation, the regent consulted with her ministers whether it was best to close the gates on the approaching party or to seek safety in flight?
Send round patrols, Take measures for the citadel's security; When they are within I close the castle-gate That nothing may transpire.
That regiment is loyal, Keep them in silence in the inner court, Unseen by all, and when the signal peals Then close the doors, keep watch upon the house.
When they appeared he quietly withdrew in order to issue commands to the town council to close the gates of the city and prohibit egress to every one connected with the court.
When the balloon is full, close the neck by slipping the rubber band up from the part of the neck that is over the glass tube on to the upper part of the neck.
But if the bubbles stop coming before it gets as large as that, close the neck of the balloon by pinching it tightly, and take the stopper out.
Finally, as weclose the book, we are conscious of a powerful and enduring impression of reality.
We read with a sense of relief that in 1642, only twenty-six years after Shakespeare's death, both houses of Parliament voted to close the theaters as breeders of lies and immorality.
Parliament voted to close the theaters, thereby saving the drama from a more inglorious death by dissipation.
Most fitly does he close the list of poets of the romantic revival, because in many respects he was the best workman of them all.
But when they looked beseechingly at his hair, which was thin, he drew the line, and managed to close the interview.
But without a check, even to close the gaps in the ranks, or to give time to the batteries to reply to the enemy's fire, the Light Division pressed forward to the charge.
We had now no other objective than the Confederate armies, and I was anxious toclose the thing up at once.
Furthermore, an indiscriminate attack tends to close the ranks in a solid phalanx, and it should be the aim of a tactician first to seek to loosen those ranks.
In the first debates at Dublin the lead given by Camden's able Secretary, Pelham, served to close the schism in the Protestant ranks.
The curious tendency of Hibernian affairs towards confusion also appears in Cornwallis's statement, on 15th November, that he had urged Pitt not to close the door to the Catholics in the United Parliament.
The only way of deadening its influence and stopping the Regency Bill was to postpone it until August and summarily to close the session on 1st June.
In July, 1802, a royal order from Spain instructed the officials at New Orleans to close the port to American produce.
It authorized the dismissal of any officer of the government who committed "disloyal acts" or uttered "disloyal language," and empowered the Postmaster General to close the mails to persons violating the law.
This is the sum of good government; and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
In the treatment of open joints our chief aim must be to close the orifice as soon as possible.
The first object is to close the wound, but unless in eversion of the womb this is practically impossible.
Close the door, and we may be able to hear it again.
The servant shook her head and again tried to close the door.
Very well, we consent to keep them, but we are masters at our own place, and we'll close the Grotto!
If it were true that the faith of the simple-minded no longer sufficed; if one ran the risk of going astray in wishing to turn back, would it become necessary to close the Grotto, to preach other efforts, other sufferings?
At this Cazaban almost choked; the blood rushed to his face, he was beside himself, and stammered out "Close the Grotto?
Say the ten shillings, and we'll close the bargain.
Lord Verisopht acknowledged the hint with a great many squeezes of Ralph's hard, horny hand, and whispering that they would now do well to close the conversation, called to Sir Mulberry Hawk that he might come back.
The levee force was waiting to close the gap, and thus save many more lives miles from the scene of its operations.
The old man was too full to sit up any longer, and he left Nick to close the bar.
I saw that several steamers had arrived during our absence, and the pilot said they were attached to the levee force, and had come to close the breach.
He drew back at once and tried to close the door, but both father and son threw their weight against it and slowly pressed him back, enabling Marcos at length to get his shoulder in.
He made a movement to close the door, but Marcos put his thickly booted foot in the interstice.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "close the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
