There is more animation in the streets now: shops are opening, cabs tooting down the Avenue de l'Opera the greater part of the night; but most of the house-fronts are still shutteredand still.
And so, as we went down that cold, remorseless street of shuttered houses, away from the chamber of death, we were silent, but we thought not at all of death.
Here and there a grid of light was thrown on the road from a partly shuttered window, or a pale glow would silhouette a woman sitting in a doorway.
On his left were theshuttered windows overlooking the lake.
When no sunlight blazed upon the lawn, and all the birds were still, and all the windows shuttered and the world dark, what happened?
At an abrupt turn of it I came upon a low white building, with dark doors and dark shuttered windows, evidently not inhabited and scarcely in the ordinary sense inhabitable--a thing more like a toolhouse than a house of any other kind.
Yet it was not the wrong street; the name written on it was the same; the shuttered shops were the same; the lamp-posts and the whole look of the perspective was the same; only it was tilted upwards like a lid.
Had he swum across the inlet and fought his way up through the wood only to see a gray wall, a shuttered window?
He put his ear to the shuttered window and listened.
Its blind, gray wall confronted him coldly in the dimness, one shuttered window, like a shut eye, concealing the interior, the soul of the house that lay inside its body.
He was silent for a moment, and then the terrified girl heard him attempt the shuttered window.
Through the closed and shuttered windows not a ray of light or a breath of air had been able to find an entrance.
The ceiling was so low that Marshland almost touched it with his head as he walked, and the small narrow-paned windows, closely shuttered from without, looked as though they had been hermetically sealed for centuries.
Its gaunt, closely-shuttered ugliness confronted Crewe uncompromisingly, as though defying him to wrest from it the secret of the tragic death of its owner.
Through searing smoke they climbed the quaking stairs and burst into the shuttered room.
But suddenly, weirdly, the rickety walls of the deserted house gave forth a sound, a rattle and a crash, and from a shuttered window beside the low-silled door bellied a sheet of smoke.
Harry pointed to the shutteredwindow of the upper room.
Johnny stared upward at the ceiling, got his eyes off the little shuttered aperture.
A small round, shuttered opening--some sort of two-way communication system.
He had to direct his sudden anger at something, so he shouted at the shuttered aperture.
He passed Eagle House, shuttered and silent, and he fell to thinking of his father.
Shepherds sheltered in the lee of dykes, and women hurried out and shuttered windows.
Out at the window of the coach I gazed, to see nothing but the cavernous night on one side, on the other, lit by the lanthorn, the flashing past of houses all shuttered and asleep.
Instead of drawn blinds and shuttered windows, there was everywhere an evident attempt at decoration in honour of the coming army.
Most of the windows were shuttered up, and as we drew nearer, the general evidences of desolation became more apparent.
But there was no moon, and no witnesses but the blank walls and shuttered windows of neighboring storehouses.
The windows were shuttered here, the air lifeless.
I don't want you to get the impression that Shuttered Doors is precisely arid; it is too full of ideas and vitalities for that; but it does undoubtedly demand a special kind of reader.
Observe that I was careful to say the "accidental" turning, though I can picture a type of reader who might soon be fluttering the pages of Shuttered Doors in impatient handfuls.
The gate was still there; but as he gazed it resolved itself into his shuttered window, barred with wide lines of sunlight.
Guided by the pressure of his arm, Odo was hurried round the bend of the lane, up a transverse alley and across a little square lost between high shuttered buildings.
His assumption of carelessness was perhaps overdone; for Trescorre's face grew as blank as a shuttered house-front.
I began to fear that I had been too outspoken; that the shutteredcarriage had gone forth to seek some more confiding and easy-going practitioner, and that our elaborate preparations had been made in vain.
No pictures hung on the mouldy walls, no curtains covered the shuttered windows, and the dark drapery of cobwebs that hung from the ceiling to commemorate a long and illustrious dynasty of spiders hinted at months of neglect and disuse.
A specially bribed Turkish sentry brought me to a silent, shuttered house in a side street.
Good angels were here on earth, at "our own clay-shuttered doors.
Above the poor, ill-kept houses a factory poured its black smoke into the air, and hummed behind its shuttered windows.
The great house itself came in sight, with its portico and pavilions staring at us, so it seemed, blankly and seriously, with shuttered eyes.
The corner of the alley shut out the lights behind her; tall walls with scarce windows fast shuttered hemmed her in; the vast night of the tropics drooped its shadow over her.
The pavements were empty, the houses shuttered and dark; save for the broad back of the coachman perched before her, she sat in a solitude.
The walls had sacred hangings upon them; but it was so dark with the shuttered windows that I could not make out very well what their subjects were.
It was a long low room, with a beamed ceiling and shuttered windows, in which the men were sitting.
This was a very good room, hung all round with tapestry, though of a poorish quality, and, though it was not yet dark, the windows were shuttered and barred.
In the middle of the shuttered parlor stood Hamish, looking very much like a small boy caught stealing jam.
The windows were shuttered and at only one place, where some of the slats of the blind had been broken, did any light come in.
Outside a shuttered pub a bunch of loiterers listen to a tale which their brokensnouted gaffer rasps out with raucous humour.
I pull the wheezy bell of their shuttered cottage: and wait.
An afternoon of such brazen heat followed that it was well to be within the shelter of the shuttered house.
It was in a dingy lane giving off from the big thoroughfare that she at last stopped before a shop whose shuttered window bore the legend--"Syke Ravenal: Jeweller.
She sat in the shuttered gloom, with her hands pressed to her temples, and bitter tears that could no longer be held back sped down her cheeks.
And thus we let the blessed sunlight into all the shuttered rooms.
Not only were these two houses closely shuttered up (as they well might be), but the shop-fronts everywhere were closed, and the windows and the tops of the houses crowded with spectators.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shuttered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
