Shuts

Examples

• You're a damned rogue, says the old gentleman, making a hideous grimace at the door as he shuts it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• So saying, the trooper puts his lips to the old girl's tanned forehead, and the door shuts upon him in his cell. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We go whorehouse before it shuts. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• My mother glances submissively at them, shuts the book, and lays it by as an arrear to be worked out when my other tasks are done. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But he shuts out the now chilled air, draws the window-curtain, goes to bed, and falls asleep. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And on his complaining that he is so troubled, it takes hold of the troublesome lady and shuts her up in prison under hard discipline. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If he be ever asked how, why, when, or wherefore, he shuts up one eye and shakes his head. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The old girl promptly makes a sign of entreaty to him to say nothing; assenting with a nod, he suffers them to enter as he shuts the door. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr. Bucket rings, goes to the door, briefly whispers Mercury, shuts the door, and stands behind it with his arms folded. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• With these words, spoken in an unusually high tone for him, the lawyer goes into his rooms and shuts the door with a thundering noise. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And yet a married woman, possessing your attractions, shuts her eyes (and sparklers too), and goes and runs her delicate-formed head against a wall. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It shuts them up. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The gate shuts upon its spring with a clash, and he leaves her passing on into the dark shade of some trees. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The French left might be swung back south-eastwardly on Verdun, as a pivot, and crowded back upon its right, as one shuts an open razor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The limit switch automatically shuts off the power and stops the motor when the valve is entirely open or shut. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She comes out of the sanctuary with a fair old-fashioned curtsy and softly shuts the door. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Editor: Maynard