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
In the open the light was still good, but within doors it was dusk, and I had not taken two steps before I tripped and fell headlong over some object that lay in my way.
From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John
To anyone within doors the artifice was, of course, apparent, and I am bound to say that M. du Mornay's words brought the blood to my brow.
From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Weyman, Stanley J.
There was no stir of life within doors, and without, the hens stepped about and pecked at the ground in perfect silence.
From Little Friend Lydia by Phillips, Ethel Calvert
