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Sentences starting with closely

Closely enveloped in the veil which Euryale had placed on her head, Melissa passed from room to room, keeping near to the philosopher. [10]
Closely examined, painstakingly studied, she is easily the most interesting person on the planet, and, in several ways, as easily the most extraordinary woman that was ever born upon it. [5]
Closely veiled, she passed alone through the camp and what she beheld there was certainly ill-suited to dispel the mood that oppressed her. [10]
Closely questioned, the Lieutenant's evidence was as round, complete, and lucid as a Japanese sphere of rock-crystal. [6]

Sentences ending with closely

Sir Richard Mowbray, with face aflame, watched her closely. [11]
Once, as I wheeled, I caught the eyes of Jamond watching me closely. [11]
Misfortune is a weapon which cleaves base natures like a sword, yet like a hammer welds noble ones more closely. [10]
He eyed the wall closely. [11]
On the way up the hills I had a chance to observe Roscoe closely. [11]
No one inquires too closely. [11]
I'm sorry not to oblige you, Jethro; but these are matters which a member of Congress must look after pretty closely. [9]
It was not till seven months after the fire at Pelusium that Pentaur's marriage with Bent-Anat was solemnized in the palace of the Pharaohs at Thebes; but time and the sorrows he had suffered had only united their hearts more closely. [10]
They have both the same broad forehead, too; but Abibaal's nose was more aquiline, and his hair curled less closely. [10]
The commander of the Macedonian guard, who years before had vainly sought her favour, and finally had become the most loyal of her friends, had promised to keep them closely. [10]

Short sentences using closely

We examined one closely. [5]
Mahommed looked closely at David. [11]
Look closely. [11]

Sentences containing closely two or more times

Leaving out the phenomenal exceptions, the nice shades that separate the skilful ones show how closely their brains approximate,--almost as closely as chronometers. [6]

More example sentences with the word closely in them

But about fourteen years before his death he became closely connected with Harper's Magazine. [4]
The prelate's white woollen morning-robe clung closely around his stately figure. [10]
It was lined with soldiers and lictors, who looked closely at each one, even at Melissa herself. [10]
He was kneeling with his forehead against the rocky wall and his emaciated hands were closely clasped over Magdalena's ring. [10]
The poorest bondman's wife rejoiced to bind more and more closely the husband who had once loved her--she had wickedly estranged hers. [10]
If this landlord, who in the past had seen him so often and so closely, did not recognise him, surely no one else would. [11]
Nevertheless all those who have most closely studied the subject (5. [1]
Assembling the Indians, who had watched his movements closely, he told them that he was going through the storm to the nets on the lake, and asked for a volunteer to go with him. [11]
His reddish chop whiskers seemed to cling a little more closely to his face than formerly, and long years of compression made his mouth look sterner than ever. [9]
Once in a while, even in our Northern cities, at noon, in a very hot summer's day, one may realize, by a sudden extension in his sphere of consciousness, how closely he is shut up for the most part.--Do you not remember something like this? [6]
The more closely what he had to say concerned himself, the briefer he would make his story. [10]
She knew, too, what a powerful influence the bright moonlight sometimes exerted upon her while she slept, and cast another glance at the closely curtained window before she went to her own bed. [10]
They did not weep or shudder and during these last days they themselves felt that they were not attending on him (he was no longer there, he had left them) but on what reminded them most closely of him--his body. [2]
Thus all the way up the diminishing shaft for fifty feet; then it begins to take the appearance of being closely wrapped, spool-fashion, with gray cord, or of having been turned in a lathe. [5]
A man's life"--he watched her closely with his wide, benevolent eyes--"is neither here nor there, nor a few thousands, in the destiny of a nation. [11]
Fresh green life was springing from the stump of every dead tree; even the rocks afforded sustenance to a hundred roots, a mossy covering and network of thorny tendrils clung closely to them. [10]
This night there was increased alertness, owing to the escape of Carbourd; and himself, if not more closely watched, was at least open to quick suspicion owing to his known friendship for Carbourd. [11]
Here the light was dim, and the masses of people were pretty closely packed together. [5]
But the lad was crowded so closely into his hiding-place, that he could not spring to the little one's aid, and his attention was attracted to a new sight, as Janus Dousa appeared on horseback. [10]
Every day she was carried to Kassandane and Atossa in a closely shut-up litter. [10]
He was very warm, and well he might be; for, not to mention the exertion of getting the trunk up stairs, he was closely muffled in winter garments, though the thermometer had stood all day at eighty-one in the shade. [12]
There was nothing very surprising, therefore, in his asking a question not very closely related to what had gone before. [6]
Not only does variability appear to be induced in man and the lower animals by the same general causes, but in both the same parts of the body are affected in a closely analogous manner. [1]
There is a valuable mental training in closely following a discourse that is valueless in itself. [4]
It is upon us; it attaches to the body politic as much and closely as the natural wants attach to our natural bodies. [7]
He had covered up the bust of Liberty so closely, that not an outline betrayed itself through the heavy folds of drapery in which it was wrapped. [6]
Berg, closely buttoned up in his new uniform, sat beside his wife explaining to her that one always could and should be acquainted with people above one, because only then does one get satisfaction from acquaintances. [2]
Mr. Pardriff was under forty, and with these gifts many innocent citizens of Ripton naturally wondered why the columns of his newspaper, the Ripton Record, did not more closely resemble the spiciness of his talk in the office of Gales' Hotel. [9]
Earlier still--more than two years after Wolf's departure--tidings closely associated with the sorrow inflicted through her John had saddened her. [10]
I left the two together, and moved about the deck, trying to think closely about Roscoe's case, and to drive Clovelly's invasion from my mind. [11]
On one or two of these occasions Cynthia had been startled to find his eyes fixed upon her, and though the feeling she had was closely akin to fear, she found something distinctly pleasurable in it. [9]
In this strong town the Turks had shut up the garrison under command of Governor Ebersbraught so closely that it was without intelligence or hope of succor. [4]
And now she took courage to look more closely at the man--and it was--yes, even in the peasant's clothes he wore he could not deceive her quick eyes--it was Andreas! [10]
Then he called Tom McChesney to him and questioned him closely about our journey, the signs we had seen, and, finally, the news in the Watauga settlements. [9]
He couples them together in his conversation as closely as Chang and Eng were coupled. [6]
Its rider, muffled to the chin, was knocking, and at the same time pulling his cap down closely over his head. [11]
He was about to take leave but the Mukaukas was so buried in pillows, and kept his eyes so closely shut, that no one could detect whether he were sleeping or waking; so the Arab, not wishing to disturb him, withdrew without speaking. [10]
When you came to study him closely, some sense of time and experience in his look told you that he might be thirty-eight, though his few grey hairs seemed but to emphasise a certain youthfulness in him. [11]
Besides, he longed to see the twins who resembled him so closely, and of whom Countess Cordula had said that she hoped they would not be like their father. [10]
Mr. Smith wishes to reprint some of Emily's and Annie's works, with a few little additions from the papers they have left; and I have been closely engaged in revising, transcribing, preparing a preface, notice, etc. [14]
Her heart yielded to no feeling but the love of Elfonzo, on whom she gazed with intense delight, and to whom she felt herself more closely bound, because he sought the hand of no other. [5]
This remark applies to many individuals of Macacus cynomolgus and Cercocebus radiatus (which is closely allied to M. rhesus), to three species of Cercopithecus and several American monkeys. [1]
His Eminence desired to be remembered to her, and said that only those who had been closely associated with his Majesty would be admitted to this ceremony, and he knew that she ranked among the first of these. [10]
A midwife, hurrying to a lowly birth-chamber, shivered and gathered her mantle more closely about her. [11]
The occurrence of three or more closely connected cases, in the practice of one individual, no others existing in the neighborhood, and no other sufficient cause being alleged for the coincidence, is prima facie evidence that he is the vehicle of contagion. [3]
Into neither of these inquiries do I purpose to enter; but we may not unprofitably turn our attention to a subject closely connected with both of them. [4]
In such cases the young of the different species cannot resemble each other more closely than do the parents; nor can they strikingly resemble allied forms when adult. [1]
Nobody ever knew the reason why she broke it--though it may have been pretty closely guessed. [9]
From several of the others I will make one or two extracts,--a difficult task, so closely are the thoughts packed together. [6]
Had she examined the necklace closely, even for a moment? [10]
The people hear the hymns without looking closely at the meaning of the words. [10]
He looked at the Honourable Hilary more closely, however. [9]
The walls of the head are double, with a great air-chamber between them, over the smallest and most closely crowded "organs. [6]
My Achilles reveals the good qualities with which he came into the world; and if you look closely you may still find sparks among the ashes. [10]
Under these arcades the foot-passengers were closely packed, awaiting Caesar's passage. [10]
Besides hearkening to the father's complaints he was closely watching the son. [11]
With respect to the exciting causes we can only say, as when speaking of so-called spontaneous variations, that they relate much more closely to the constitution of the varying organism, than to the nature of the conditions to which it has been subjected. [1]
This part of the enemy seem to now be trying to work along the White Oak road, to join the main force in front of Grant, while Sheridan and Warren are pressing them as closely as possible. [7]
If he opened the door behind her, he could-- She stepped back hastily into the room, and drew her night-robe closely about her with sudden flushing of the face. [11]
A letter in the bold and upright hand of his son was on the top of the pile, placed there by Mr. Flint himself, who had examined Mr. Worthington's face closely when he came in to see how much he might know of its contents. [9]
Then it appeared that there were fifteen of the latter among the liberated prisoners and, to Ephraim's special delight, Reuben, the husband of poor melancholy Milcah, who clung so closely to Miriam. [10]
It appears incredible that the modified descendants of two organisms, if these differed from each other in a marked manner, should ever afterwards converge so closely as to lead to a near approach to identity throughout their whole organisation. [1]
It was noticeable that the half-breed watched the Indian closely, that he always rode behind him, that he never drank out of the same cup. [11]
It is true that Tachot is ill, but she prays and sacrifices with her father all the more for that; and as to Nitetis, you and I both know that her death will not touch him very closely. [10]
It was curious that such reflections as these should have been delayed until after the achievement of my absorbing desire, more curious that they should have followed so closely on the heels of it. [9]
They had learnt that life was as nothing to either of them without the other, and their hearts meseemed were henceforth as closely knit as two streams which flow together to make one river, and whose waters no power on earth can ever sunder. [10]
The small bands that had started their activities long before and had already observed the French closely considered things possible which the commanders of the big detachments did not dare to contemplate. [2]
To the end that Ann and my uncle should learn to come together closely I put no word into his teaching. [10]
Nitetis was more than dead for her; Bartja, Croesus, Darius, Gyges, Araspes, all so closely allied to her by relationship and friendship, as good as dead. [10]
He did not tarry long, but assured Ambulinia the endless chain of their existence was more closely connected than ever, since he had seen the virtuous, innocent, imploring, and the constant Amelia murdered by the jealous-hearted Farcillo, the accursed of the land. [5]
Some writers have suggested that the aborigines of islands have suffered in fertility and health from long continued inter-breeding; but in the above cases infertility has coincided too closely with the arrival of Europeans for us to admit this explanation. [1]
A fresh band strikes up "Hail Columbia," and the four horses prance away, followed closely by the "Independent Broom Rangers. [9]
Caracalla examined the stone in the gold ring more closely, and exclaimed in admiration: "How delicate the little heads are! [10]
The closely fitting steel chain armour, in which he had ridden out, now hung in large folds upon his powerful frame. [10]
Down the stone stairs, through the lofty halls and wide courts of the temple he hurried, closely followed by the youth, though his trembling limbs could scarcely support his fevered body. [10]
At an early stage of development the tail was closely coiled round the head of the larva. [1]
As these two species are closely allied, and belong to the order of Insessores, which includes nearly all the singing-birds in the world, it is possible that a progenitor of the sparrow may have been a songster. [1]
She glistened and sparkled with every movement, so that the admirer forgot to question too closely whether the eyes matched the brilliants, or the cheeks glowed like the roses. [6]
She had for some minutes heard a murmuring sound which reached her from an inner chamber; but it was only by degrees that she collected herself so far as to listen more closely, to ascertain whence it came and what it could mean. [10]
When he did so, he was in ignorance of these facts that I have related; but it is remarkable how very closely he suggested the right method of procedure. [1]
This seaport of Smyrna, our first notable acquaintance in Asia, is a closely packed city of one hundred and thirty thousand inhabitants, and, like Constantinople, it has no outskirts. [5]
Their towering visitor slowly unloosed something he carried very carefully and closely beneath his arm, and laid it on the table, dropping his compass-like fingers softly on it. [11]
A few days since, I had a severe bilious attack, the consequence of sitting too closely to my writing; but it is gone now. [14]
The only care should be not to follow fact too closely, for I 'll swear I have met with characters and figures that would be condemned as extravagant, if faithfully delineated by pen or pencil. [4]
He wore a short sack,--in fact, an entire suit of light gray flannel, which closely fitted his lithe form. [4]
Leaning back languidly, she was eyeing him closely from under drooping lids, smiling, too, in an unimportant sort of way, as if what she had said was a trifle. [11]
Dropping the book, she leaned over her father's bed and looked closely at him. [11]
And the closely set lips, which usually were slightly parted, and hardly covered two of her pearly white teeth, gave her a look of such determination, that Andreas could see that no obstacle would check her. [10]
She wished to seek the sanctuary unnoticed and, accompanied only by Iras and the chief Introducer, went, closely veiled, to the neighbouring temple at the Corner of the Muses. [10]
Did you ever see the grotesquely absurd and the heart-breakingly pathetic more closely joined together? [5]
But I never see much life in those groups I sometimes meet;--and then the careful man watches them so closely! [6]
In depicting this scenery in the present romance, I have endeavored to reproduce the reality as closely as possible. [10]
His eyes were scanning the mountain closely. [11]
He took a revolver from his pocket and examined it closely, looked round the room as though to fasten it in his memory, and then passed out, closing the door behind him. [11]
We swarm with reviewers, though we have scarce original works sufficient for them to alight and prey upon, and we closely imitate all the worst tricks of the trade and of the craft in England. [4]
Silence would have revealed their unhappiness; they would not have dared to look closely and deeply into each other's face, lest revelation should force them to say, "It has been a mistake; let us end it. [11]
It is closely related to the development or retrogression of the time in all departments of life. [4]
In each great region of the world the living mammals are closely related to the extinct species of the same region. [1]
Her lips, so ready for a wise or sprightly saying, were closely shut, and moved only in silent prayer or when some friend spoke to her of her unhappy son. [10]
But besides the reading there is now and then some talking, and persons talking in an arbor do not always remember that latticework, no matter how closely the vines cover it, is not impenetrable to the sound of the human voice. [6]

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