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
For two days Mère Clouet, Yvonne and Jean remained within doors in nerve-racking uncertainty, trembling at the slightest sound, or the faintest cry in the streets.
From When a Cobbler Ruled a King by Seaman, Augusta Huiell
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
One of them was more fleet than he, and reaching the house at the same moment, they rushed within doors together.
From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by Clement, J. (Jesse)
