within doors

Example Sentences

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Both families are from Basra in southern Iraq, and they lived within doors of one another in Dearborn.

From Time • Feb. 25, 2011

“Keep within doors, Ophelia. I would not have you appear in public view,” he ordered.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Split up the ends of the stems that they may absorb plentiful water, and the golden plumes will soon open to fullest glory within doors.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse

The English residents are shut closely within doors, where they seek, by the waving of punkas, and by admitting the air only through mats dripping with water, to mitigate the terrible heat.

From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)

Such jumps, therefore, as I have endeavoured to describe within doors should represent the biggest which most ladies are likely to encounter with in a fair hunting country.

From The Barb and the Bridle A Handbook of Equitation for Ladies, and Manual of Instruction in the Science of Riding, from the Preparatory Suppling Exercises by Moustache, Vielle