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

"No, I could hardly expect you would, with so much to interest you within doors."

From It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) by Wood, Mrs. Henry

"Come in, Ignati," cried the musician, with somewhat of a foreign accent; "either play on your pipe to the gentleman here, or come and help us to sing to the company within doors."

From Henry of Guise; (Vol. I of 3) or, The States of Blois by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

But the simple experiments, without the use of the apparatus, will while away a few hours on a rainy afternoon, when condemned to the penance of keeping within doors.

From Meteorology or Weather Explained by M'Pherson, J. G.