Away we rambled across the Ure to a small wooded hollow at the foot of Whitfell, in the hills which shut out Swaledale.
He will request you, moreover, to be careful to shut the gate by which you leave the terrace at a break in the shrubbery.
I saw a limpet give its shell half a rotation, then grow tall for an instant, and then shut itself snugly down upon the rock.
Now it is encroached on by grass, and the inns which are not shut up look altogether dejected, especially that one where the dining-room has been converted into a stable.
Every door was shut against him, save one, an humble cot without the city wall, where the inmates bade him welcome, and set oaten bread and milk cheese before him, and prepared him a pallet whereon to sleep.
More and more are the hill-sides wavy with grass as we descend, field after field shutin by stone fences, and the dalesmen are beginning to mow.
We crossed the fall, climbed up the rock into another bend of the chasm, where the water makes its first plunge, unseen from below, shut in by crags that wear a sterner frown.
We pass the hamlet of Skawton; a brook becomes our companion, and woods still shut us in when we cross the Rye, a shallow, lively stream, and get a view from the bridge up Ryedale.
Shut in by woods and hills here, as some writers show, is the birthplace of John Wycliffe, to whom freedom of conscience is perhaps more indebted than to Luther.
Hull was the first town in the kingdom to shut its gates against the king and declare for the people, and was in consequence besieged by Charles.
Another precaution is to shut out cold draughts of air during the casting.
The atmosphere was close and disagreeably odorous; a great turf fire burned in the grate, and yet the outer door was kept as carefully shut as if July breezes were hurtful.
I shut you in my crystal cup, To let your winglets rest.
The power had been shut off and the Gem had drifted to the former mooring place.
The machinery had been shut down by Betty immediately following the sudden stop on the bar.
At such times the blue and violet rays are almost completely shut out, and the red, orange and yellow rays are powerfully diffracted and scattered by the dust particles in the air.
I should picture to myself a hundred things I wanted as soon as I found myself shut up here.
Underwood remembered to have heard that no spirit could enter without invitation, and he shut his mouth firmly that no habitual "come in" might lay him open to the assault of the enemy.
The shadow of the old house shut out the sunshine from the little platform in front of the door; but at the further side, where the trees grew among the broken masses of the ruin, the sun from the west entered freely.
The breadth of the loch was entirely hidden from him by the projection of the old tower, which descended into the water at the right, and almost shut off this highest corner of Loch Houran into a little lakelet of its own.
Do you think it is He--that has shut us up in this dungeon, to die?
The old castle, with its ruined battlements, seemed a more fit scene for spiritual conflict than the dull comfort of this gloomy chamber, shut in from all human communication.
Walter did not say anything till he had entered the room and shut the door.
The bunks were arranged to fold against the wall, and a table in the centre could be shut up when not in use and hoisted to the ceiling, giving plenty of space.
Then the whole atmosphere grew from a dense black to a strange opaque whiteness: a whiteness that shut out the view from every side, and enveloped the ship as if it had fallen into a feather bed.
See you this evening,” he said briefly, as he nodded to Bright and Miner, and shut the cab door after him.
She pressed his silently, and touched his matted hair with her tightly shut lips.
He was so white and red and soft, and the place was so still and warm, with its masses of rich drapery that shut off every sound of life from without.
He reached his own room, shut the door, and then sat down to look at himself in the glass, as men under the influence of drink very often do, for some mysterious reason.
The walls, the chairs and the divans were covered with them, and even the door which gave access to the stairs was draped and made to look unlike a door, so that when it was shut there seemed to be no way out.
She spoke almost before she had shutthe door behind her.
Almost before Katharine had shut the glass door behind her, she heard the sound of light, quick footsteps as Hester ran upstairs to her husband.
Shut your eyes a little, so as not to see the details too distinctly,” he said, still working.
Her face relaxed a little, and she opened and shut her hands slowly as though they had been stiffened.
Katharine entered the room, smiled and nodded to him, and then turned and shut the door carefully before she came forward.
Ralston shut his lips viciously and his clean-cut, prominent chin looked determined enough.
Well then, meet me under Asbestos' elm tree at quarter of eleven, and keep your mouth shut about it.
That is," he amended, "if you keep your trap shutand do a lot of sleeping.
Come in, and shut the door, Murdock," he said in a velvet voice.
Come in, Murdock, if you are a man--and shut that door.
Family after family turned their backs upon him, and his clubs shut their doors in his face!
He snatched the prayer-book out of the trunk, shut down the lid, and, with a finger between the closed pages of the book, stood up as the doctor came briskly into the room.
Gerda thought she had come to sell ribbons and pins, and turned to shut the door; but the old dame stopped her smilingly.
Down below the railings, at three or four points, not more, an upturned face with tightly shut eyes was praying aloud.
They would do anything, anything rather than that these immense reservoirs of capital, already partly opened, should be shut up again.
He showed them in and round the counter, lifting the old curtain that shut off the parlour from the public part of the shop.
Shut up, Abercelyn; we're talking about Llanyglo now.
Then the trees began again, up and up and up to the sky, a cliff of leaves that shut the mountains out and the stream in.
And scarce two hundred yards away, under the railings of the sea-wall, here and there a mask, with struggling breast and tightly shut eyes and writhing lips, prayed.
They had begun to change when Llanyglo had been no longer able to shut its eyes to the beer-drinking of the navvies and bricklayers and the brothers Kerr.
Some were distributed to those who were able to read them; and then asking them kindly to excuse us while we took our midday meal, I went into my boat and shut the door.
The apartment was a second recess larger than the first, shut in by hangings of sackcloth and furnished with rough seats and tables of unoiled cedar.
Marsyas, for the instant stunned and scorched, flung his arm over his face, to shut out the horror.
As soon as the Tyropean bridge was passed, the Temple was shut off from view by the intervening cornices of the porch; and when the gate was reached, the stream of worshipers entered into the demesnes of the Holy House.
So, who is Israel, O son of a shut house and of a hermit brotherhood?
Saul threw his hand over his eyes to shut out the blinding radiance.
Her arms were languidly lifted--arms that for whiteness shamed this marble--" the old man was saying as the panel glided back into place and shut them in darkness.
Because it concerns me much, I could not shutmine ears against it.
She was offended, and shut up, as we heard afterwards, her apartment.
She placed her hands before her eyes to shut out his hateful sight, while she endeavoured to nerve herself for what might next occur.
I am weary of remaining shut up in so small a compass for so long a time.
I was in a great hurry, because I did not know when the pirates might come back; and they will, probably, shut me up somewhere, so that I cannot get to speak to her.
For the first time Ada stepped on the deck of the vessel, and, after having been shut up so long below, the full, bright glare of the sun almost dazzled her eyes, and prevented her seeing objects clearly.
A somewhat dull life, though, you are destined to lead, if you are to be shut up in one of the smaller cities of Italy, and employed in tending old dowagers and sick babies.
Had we the strength to do so, we might convey him up to the tower, where I suppose I shall be again shut up, and his wounds might thus be properly dressed.
Port your helm, Raby, and let us shut out the bay as fast as we can," whispered his captain.
Nina, hiding her face in her hands to shut out the dreadful sight her imagination had conjured up.
Zappa had hitherto contrived to prevent the meeting of Ada and Nina, by compelling both of them to remain shut up in their respective parts of the castle.
Her uncle had not attempted to deceive her, nor did she shut her eyes to the greatness of the threatening danger--yet hope rose triumphant in her bosom.
She tried to shut her eyes to his faults, to forget his unkindness, and to discover only the noble qualities she at first believed he possessed.
It was written in the lines of suffering on his face, in the quiet endurance of the close-shut mouth.
Bewildered and excited, Diana sang again, Baroni testing the full compass of her voice until quite suddenly he shut down the lid of the piano.
What mattered was that it was she who had closed it, deliberately choosing to shut him outside her life, and cutting every cord of love and trust and belief that bound them together.
For months you've shut yourself away from me and I've borne it, waiting--waiting always for you to come back to me.
Unless the plate fit perfectly in its place, the cable motor could not shut off, and presently an alarm signal would start flashing on the control panel.
If I'd kept my big mouth shut at the very start of this thing, you'd have gone back to the Project and that would have been the end of it.
In that case, we might indeed calculate upon travelling cheap, provided the rails were notshut up.
As soon as they approached the house, the Squire hastened to shut himself with his wife in full parental consultation; and Randal, seated upon a bench on the terrace, revolved the mischief he had done, and its chances of success.
It is vain to shut our eyes to the fact that the government of the United States offers to the emigrant many real, substantial, and peculiar advantages.
Both contempt and malice were expressed for his antagonist in his half-shut eyes and sardonic twist of the corners of his mouth.
I like short cuts, and you have shut up a very short one.
He was frightened," she said, "for he had been shut up for more than a month.
Kara Chout and its crags shut out the view, passing many a spot graven on the pages of the younger world.
At your pleasure," said he, and, entering his own quarters, shut the door.
So much he was able to distinguish, though what coast it might be he could not tell, for presently another flash falling from the sky, he saw that the shore was shut out by the approaching downfall of rain.
The Collector paused only long enough to observe that the shutters of the lower story were tight shut and barred, and that the dull and lurid light shone from the windows above.
I know not whether he breathed, but he shut his eyes tight as though that might save him from the bullets that were raining about him.
At such times he would shut his teeth and bear whatever came to him, until sometimes the half-drunken old man would be driven almost mad by his stubborn silence.
When our chiefs saw that you shut yourselves up in this place, regarding us as enemies, they told us we must first make ourselves masters of the camp.
But the baron had foreseen this contingency, and all the townsmen who had come in arms at Anseric's summons were shut up in the castle.
The cite Juliana was now shut in on all sides and reduced to its walls, which were able long to defy the attacks of the Franks.
The two sons of Clovis therefore directed their forces in 532 towards Burgundy, and sat down before Autun, in which the king of the Burgundians had shut himself up.
The wounded and sick shut up in the abbey had perished in the flames; women, old men, and children, were lying on the pavement and in the houses.
Thither the little fellow rushed; gave one glance downward into the water and another upon his gorgeous attire; then upward and onward where a fold of scarlet calico fluttered like a signal; shut his great eyes, and leaped.
At last something akin to a smile stole over the farmer's grim features and he roughly ordered: "Shut up, you nigger!
Aurora, too, seemed more sensible, and, breakfast over, had shut herself in her tiny stateroom to put on the plainest frock she had.
