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
Those who were not members of the Order had to keep fast within doors, for if they inadvertently caught sight of the worshippers they would have been smitten with insanity.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil
That is why everybody is barricaded within doors.
From Bert Wilson at the Wheel by Duffield, J. W.
To anyone within doors the artifice was, of course, apparent, and I am bound to say that M. du Mornay's words brought the blood to my brow.
From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Weyman, Stanley J.
