be closeted with

Example Sentences

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Some of them never came again, but others would return in the afternoon and be closeted with him for hours.

From A Romantic Young Lady by Grant, Robert

I chafed at it, for I wished to be closeted with him myself.

From Verner's Pride by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

Mr Slow said that he might be closeted with Miss Mackenzie for some little time, perhaps for a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes.

From Miss Mackenzie by Trollope, Anthony

Lingard would naturally spend every moment he could escape from the afflicted Paches at Rede Place; and when he, her lover, was not there, Jane would be closeted with Athena, or occupied in amusing Richard.

From Jane Oglander by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

Of the doctor he saw but little: he never came to Greshamsbury unless to see Lady Arabella as doctor, or to be closeted with the squire.

From Doctor Thorne by Trollope, Anthony