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

"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)

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.

Split up the ends of the stems that they may absorb plentiful water, and the golden plumes will soon open to fullest glory within doors.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse