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
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Some of the Jonquils are as sickening within doors as the Tuberose, though in both cases it is only because the scent is confined that it is cloying.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse
He warned everyone to stay closely within doors that night, and assured them that as soon as daylight appeared every possible effort would be made to capture and cage him.
From Bert Wilson at the Wheel by Duffield, J. W.
The weather, however, did not keep the strikers within doors.
From The Iron Boys as Foremen or, Heading the Diamond Drill Shift by Mears, James R.