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
A high wind prevailed throughout the day, but, within doors, the weather was warm, 78� at four o'clock.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp
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
Sometimes the croaking and hooting of frogs and toads were so loud, that we could not hear one another's voices within doors.
From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Bulfinch, Thomas
