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
In early Roman times curfew may possibly have served a political purpose by obliging people to keep within doors, thus preventing treasonable nocturnal assemblies, and generally assisting in the preservation of law and order.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
In the open the light was still good, but within doors it was dusk, and I had not taken two steps before I tripped and fell headlong over some object that lay in my way.
From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John
"You are right, and the sooner we are within doors the better," his companion assented.
From For the Cause by Weyman, Stanley J.
