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

"No, I could hardly expect you would, with so much to interest you within doors."

From It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) by Wood, Mrs. Henry

All were soon busy within doors and without.

From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

Clothed in rich dresses, they were seen continually sporting and amusing themselves in the garden and pavilions, their female guardians being confined within doors, and never suffered to appear.

From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Keightley, Thomas