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Sentences starting with close

Close upon thirty-six years I have known those venerable men. [5]
Close the contract with dispatch, I said, and let him go. [5]
Close by them we saw the intense blue of the skies, through rents in the cloud-rack, and away off in another quarter were drifting clouds of a delicate pink color. [5]
Close at hand was the snowy mass of the Great Altels cooling its topknot in the sky and daring us to an ascent. [5]
Close by us was the Grand Stand--tier on tier of dim thrones rising up toward the zenith. [5]
Close to it was a stream, and on its banks a great herd of curious-looking Syrian goats and sheep were gratefully eating gravel. [5]
Close up, close up, my brothers! [11]
Close beside her--this time at her right--the loud laughter of men's harsh voices echoed through the darkness. [10]
Close by me there sat a sturdy, brown Egyptian, a sugar-baker or something of the kind, who held his sides with laughing, and yet, I dare swear, did not understand a word of the comedy. [10]
Close below lay the verdant garden, which sent odors from the rose-beds up to the princess's balcony. [10]

Sentences ending with close

If it is winter and you have a friend, you lie close. [11]
The year 1222 was drawing to a close. [5]
Any new additions to this chapter of the life of her heart were but the close. [10]
If one had to name the apple of the eye of England, I think he would be likely to say that Salisbury Cathedral was as near as he could come to it, and that the white of the eye was Salisbury Close. [6]
They were sweet to look upon, as smooth as skin, but fitted ten time as close. [5]
It was necessary to hurry this matter to a close. [5]
I am loath to close. [7]
It is time to bring these crowded remarks to a close. [3]
The picketing had to be done quickly, in the few minutes that were to elapse before the gates should close. [9]
Bill Noakes, put these handcuffs on; now come up close. [5]

Short sentences using close

Were you close to it? [5]
She came close to him. [11]
Philip came close to her. [11]
He came close to Charley. [11]
Stand close in the cage. [11]
Close to Australia now. [5]
Stick close to me. [13]
He clasped her close. [11]
It was a close place. [5]
I stood close by. [5]

Sentences containing close two or more times

Like Balancing Rock, which waited darkly over the steep gorge, ready to close forever the outlet to Deception Pass, that nameless thing, as certain yet intangible as fate, must fall and close forever all doubts and fears of the future. [13]
It ran close to the edge of the steep hillside,--so close that there were times when every one of our forty digits curled up like a bird's claw. [6]
So close he had been to her--so close that each had felt, simultaneously, complete comprehension of the other, comprehension that defied words, overbore disagreements. [9]
Filled with reverent awe she sank down close to the door of the sacred chamber, shrinking close into the angle formed between a projecting door-post and the wall of the great hall. [10]
The gods are a man's earliest, mightiest and most faithful friends, and it therefore becomes thy duty, as a wife, to honor them, and to close thine heart against strange gods and superstitions, as thou wouldst close it against strange lovers. [10]

More example sentences with the word close in them

I shall watch your distressed career to its close with deep scrutiny. [11]
I swear to you, Sir, I believe that these two centres of civilization are just exactly the two points that close the circuit in the battery of our planetary intelligence! [6]
I only tell you this because you close all other ways to me. [11]
No stranger puzzles you so much as the once close friend, with whose thinking and associates you have for years been unfamiliar. [4]
In Chennu, as you know, besides the quarries there is the great college of priests, which is in close alliance with the temple of Seti. [10]
Now without detaining you any longer, I propose that you help me to close up what I am now saying with three rousing cheers for General Grant and the officers and soldiers under his command. [7]
You see, Nance, you and Bantry's got to close out. [11]
Ephraim had not yet returned from the postoffice, which did not close until eight, and Cynthia smiled when she saw the utensils of his cooking-kit strewn on the hearth. [9]
And when this wretch in the purple shall close his eyes, he, like the rest of the criminals who have preceded him on the throne, will be proclaimed a god! [10]
Let him who would sneer at my emotion close this volume here, for he will find little to his taste in my journeyings through Holy Land. [5]
The telegraph office would presently close, and as yet there were no tidings from Hagerstown. [6]
One more night would carry us over the hostile frontier if we had good luck, and we saw the night close down with a good deal of solicitude. [5]
We said we would be close comrades and happy--just we two. [5]
As the peace-maker's work was already drawing to a close, the wounded lad, pointing with his sound hand in the direction of the school, suddenly called warningly: "There comes Herr von Nordwyk. [10]
He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close and rendering it portable. [5]
Eva was spared witnessing the close of this unpleasant incident. [10]
Those who come within its irresistible influence are drawn so close that it seems as if they must become one with her sooner or later. [6]
How long, and with what other precautions, I have suggested, without dictating, at the close of my Essay. [3]
I cannot close with the familiar 'Rejoice'--the 'Fresh Courage' placed on many a tombstone seems more appropriate. [10]
No, I hear with my ears open and my heart close tight. [11]
Also he hed with him the five riders who've been guardin' him pretty close of late. [13]
The close association with her aunt, the abbess, was renewed. [10]
Hadrian was trembling with fury, he doubled his first as he lifted it in Pollux's face, and going close up to him asked in a threatening tone: "What do you mean by that? [10]
Here she stopped with a shriek, dropping the comb, for the thundercloud was now directly over the city, and a loud peal, following close upon the flash of lightning, shook the house; but Barbara scarcely heeded the dazzling glare and the rattling panes. [10]
For myself, I wish the earth close about me, and level green grass above me, and no one knowing of the place; or else, fire or the sea. [11]
He commissioned Anselmus Winckler, an excellent notary, and formerly his most intimate school friend, to close the apothecary shop and to sell privately whatever it contained. [10]
This tarnished gold will never brighten, these battered covers will stand no more wear and tear; close them, and leave them to the spider and the book-worm. [6]
Any ordinary man will find that the story's strength is in its middle, and that there is apparently no way to transfer it to the close, where of course it ought to be. [5]
For to-day we will close the temple gates, solemnize the festival among ourselves, and allow no one to enter our precincts for sacrifice and prayer till the fate of the sisters is made certain. [10]
The fall it will be his; and though I strive and strain, One blow will close my eyes, and I shall never waken. [11]
The same remark will apply to all offices here, now, and no doubt will, till the close of the present administration. [5]
I have the will and the power too, to close the sluice gates against such a disaster. [10]
I ask her why; she do not know, but she hug Babette close to her breast with a kind of fear. [11]
When the doctor who had been called arrived, Carmen was in a heap by the low couch, one arm thrown across the body, and her head buried in the cushion close to his. [4]
But in the white close surrounding the church were signs that life still persisted. [9]
Once more something whistled, but this time quite close, swooping downwards like a little bird; a flame flashed in the middle of the street, something exploded, and the street was shrouded in smoke. [2]
Mena lashed his whip, the horses started forward and rushed with frantic plunges towards the fugitives, who however could not be brought to a standstill, or rallied by the king's voice--the enemy were close upon them, cutting them down. [10]
In a little while Van Dorn arrived and confirmed the news; and so we gathered in our cabin and with heads close together arranged our plans in impressive whispers. [5]
For in July, while the game-law was on, and the young quails were coming on, we were awakened one morning by firing, --musketry-firing, close at hand. [4]
With those animals which were benefited by living in close association, the individuals which took the greatest pleasure in society would best escape various dangers, whilst those that cared least for their comrades, and lived solitary, would perish in greater numbers. [1]
The old aqueduct, which supplied the courts of sacrifice and the Subterranean crypts of the temple where the mysteries of Serapis were celebrated, passed close by the back-wall of this warehouse. [10]
In the Close, which is a little Garden of Eden, with no serpent in it that I could hear of, the deaths were only fourteen in a thousand. [6]
But at last, when it is brought to the test of close reasoning, there is not even that thin decoction of it left. [7]
The little tables were ranged along by the windows, and it chanced that Mr. Harry Riddle sat so close to us that we could touch him. [9]
The cavalry singers were passing close by: Ah lost, quite lost... is my head so keen, Living in a foreign land. [2]
The gray squirrels were out looking for their breakfasts, and one of them came toward us in light, soft, intermittent leaps, until he was close to the rail of the burial-ground. [6]
But the Moslems were no less eager for the fray, and at the close of his council-of-war, and contrary to its decision, Kapudan Pacha sailed to meet the enemy. [10]
Of course, there were many people there who were not under compulsion to stay; yet the tiers were as full at the close as they had been at the beginning. [5]
The lictors who were keeping off the mob had stopped Melissa too; but while Alexander had been gazing into Agatha's imploring eyes, feeling as though all his blood had rushed to his heart and face, Melissa had contrived to creep up close to him. [10]
And yet they were in the bustling world, close to the continent, commanding the most important of the navigable seas. [4]
The minutest particles were driven through a fine wire screen which fitted close around the battery, and were washed into great tubs warmed by super-heated steam--amalgamating pans, they are called. [5]
In effect they were days of companionship with one's sacred dead, and I have known no comradeship that was so close or so precious. [5]
Monday morning we were close to the island of Hawaii. [5]
But, whenever Pyrrhus went to market, letters reached the island delivered at the fish auction in the harbour by Anukis, Charmian's Nubian maid, to the old freedman, who had become her close friend. [10]
The court only went so far as to rule that the prisoner was to be kept in close confinement, so that he might be within reach of the hand of justice, if the supreme decision should be "guilty! [10]
The first part went off with wonderful eclat, and at its close there were loud cries for Pocahontas. [6]
Much alarmed, they went close up to him, but he exclaimed quite coherently: "Water--a drink of water!--the thief!--the scoundrel! [10]
It is not well; when writing an autobiography, to follow your ancestry down too close to your own time--it is safest to speak only vaguely of your great-grandfather, and then skip from there to yourself, which I now do. [5]
It is not well, when writing an autobiography, to follow your ancestry down too close to your own time--it is safest to speak only vaguely of your great-grandfather, and then skip from there to yourself, which I now do. [5]
From the hotel we could view the huge glacier at very close range. [5]
Expecting high winds, we bring everything into close reef. [4]
Wilhelm knew the way and strode in front of Henrica; the Junker kept close at her side. [10]
It came on wave-like, hurrying down at the right and the left as if to close in on them. [11]
He kept close watch over her, and at the least indication of restlessness, that he knew led to tossing and rolling of the body, he held her tightly, so no violent move could reopen her wounds. [13]
He put his watch on the table, and sit down on a bench by it, and for a little minute he do not speak, but look at me close, and not angry, as you would think. [11]
But mebbe it wasn't a close call!...I'll sit here in this corner where nobody can see me from the grove. [13]
Warm-hearted as she was, she fully realized the debt of gratitude she owed to the lady Euryale; and she could not blame the high-priest, whom prudence certainly compelled to close his doors against her. [10]
At the top was the inn where we put up, close by the church; and the clergyman's house, we were told, was at the top of the churchyard. [14]
In the distance was the ancient, but still almost perfect Temple of Theseus, and close by, looking to the west, was the Bema, from whence Demosthenes thundered his philippics and fired the wavering patriotism of his countrymen. [5]
At last he was successful, and cried out excitedly-- "There is the village, my Prince, and there is the Hall close by! [5]
He at first was so insubordinate under restraint that he was put under close ward from which he was not released until, instead of raging with fury he dreamed away his days in sullen brooding. [10]
The boisterous day was reddening to its close as the Colonel lined his little army in front of the wood, and we covered the space of four thousand. [9]
Beaver Dam Rock was out in the middle of the river now, and throwing a prodigious 'break;' it used to be close to the shore, and boats went down outside of it. [5]
Still the delay was not wholly unproductive, for it took all that time to get Sandy thoroughly wonted to the new thing, she being so close to it, you know. [5]
Now, however, there was more real cause for alarm a trumpet-blast was heard, and a maniple of the twenty-second legion marched down in close order on the crowd who fled before them. [10]
Well, likely it was minutes and minutes that there warn't a sound, and we all there so close together. [5]
The sombre daylight was drawing to an early close as the two stood looking out of the sitting-room window. [9]
The short day was drawing to a close, shadows were gathering in the corners of Ditmar's room as she reached the threshold and gazed about her at the objects there so poignantly familiar. [9]
And now he was determined, if it cost him the effort of all his remaining days, to close another discussion and put forever to rest the anxious doubts about the larva of meloe. [6]
Now that she was close to me, I could see that her beauty was real and notable. [11]
But when I was close to him he merely laid his hand on my shoulder. [9]
The village church was close by the Court-wall. [11]
Ameni, who too, was close behind the heart, started too and looked round on the author of this hideous laugh. [10]
The dread moment was close at hand. [6]
The decisive hour was close at hand. [10]
St. John's day was close at hand. [10]
A wicket gate was close at hand, but there was more than one path across the churchyard to which it led, and, uncertain which to take, they came to a stand again. [12]
If a shell was bursting close over us, we stopped talking and stood still;-- uncomfortable, yes, but it wasn't safe to move. [5]
With the group was a lieutenant, buttoned close in his gray coat,--one button gone, perhaps to make a breastpin for some fair traitorous bosom. [6]
The room was warm and close, it reeked with the smell of stale food, but at least she found relief from that other odour. [9]
Besides, the blustering war of tongues had reached a merry close, and loud laughter blended with the shouts of fear and warning; for the surging throng had swept with unexpected speed towards the fountain and plunged Philostratus into the basin. [10]
The Chicago Tribune wants letters, but I hope and pray I have charged them so much that they will not close the contract. [5]
All that was wanted now was ten thousand dollars in cash to enable him to close the great bargain and make his hundred and fifty thousand. [11]
Her mobile mind wandered swiftly from lofty to petty things; she seized the cards to see whether fate would unite her to Zorrillo or to Ulrich, and the red ten, which represented herself, lay close beside the green knave, Pasquale. [10]
The grey stone walls of the houses grew darker and darker, and seemed to close in on the dumfounded, hysterical crowd. [11]
I saw her walking along, hanging her head; the serving man carried the lantern before her, and the Bohemian was speaking close in her ear. [10]
Barbara preferred to walk beside hers, for clouds had darkened the sky; it had become oppressively sultry, and she felt as if she would stifle in the close, swaying box. [10]
The tides of wakening consciousness roll in upon them daily as we unclose our eyelids, and keep up the gentle movement and murmur of ordinary mental respiration until we close them again in slumber. [6]
Last night the Voice said that he waits for me where the mist rises from the river at daybreak, close to the home of the White Swan. [11]
Many of the vessels could scarcely be said to be launched at all; they sank like lead, close to the shore. [4]

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