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Sentences starting with shut

Shut your eyes to tomorrow's proceedings, and then--oh! [10]
Shut up the robber and the defaulter, we must. [6]
Shut your eyes and sleep as long as you can. [10]
Shut the windows and lock the door, you could not shut out the terror of it. [4]
Shut up everybody, and let him go on! [5]
Shut your eyes, and beware of breaking her heart. [10]
Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that! [5]
Shut the door! [5]
Shut the door. [12]
Shut up! [5]

Sentences ending with shut

Monday morning it was still swollen and shut. [5]
Then the door was shut. [9]
All at once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, leaning with his arms on the back of the sofa, sat in his former position with his eyes shut. [2]
Someone had found the dead body of Young Eye; then it was discovered that the gate was shut. [11]
I'd 'a' beat the bully of the firmament if I'd kept my mouth shut. [5]
Philippus heaved a sigh of relief when the ecclesiastics had departed, and constantly renewed the wet compress, while the dying governor lay for a long time in silence with his eyes shut. [10]
The door was shut. [9]
Why, I can run it with my eyes shut. [5]
Keep your eyes open and your heart shut. [6]
Darkness was gathering now, and she could see the glimmer of the light of lamps through the windows, and as the doors opened and shut. [11]

Short sentences using shut

She shut the window slowly. [11]
I'd shut down tomorrow. [9]
The Colonel shut the door. [9]
The window was shut tight. [11]
The world was shut out. [11]
This shut Joan out. [5]
Someone was holding it shut. [2]
Comyn presently shut him up. [9]
I shut my eyes. [9]
He shut the door--locked it. [11]

Sentences containing shut two or more times

The young wife shut herself up in her father's house; he shut himself up with her, and thenceforth would see no one. [5]
At an elevation of 6,000 feet we entered a thick cloud, and it shut out the world and kept it shut out. [5]
Many people shut it out of their houses as if it were an enemy, watch its descent upon the carpet as if it were only a thief of color, and plant trees to shut it away from the mouldering house. [4]
There was a furnace register in a retired room, where he used to go when he wished to be alone, that he always opened when he desired more heat; but he never shut it, any more than he shut the door after himself. [4]

More example sentences with the word shut in them

Must you shut yourself up because you found you couldn't trust everybody? [4]
You have kept yourself shut up. [9]
If you keep your mouth shut, and the devil doesn't put his finger into the pie, I think, spite of all the Zorrillos, I shall be Eletto to-morrow. [10]
If you shut your eyes, perhaps you'll go to sleep. [12]
Then the seven young men turned them away from their homes, and the strangers shut the doors upon them. [5]
When I hear you speak I want to shut my eyes, I am so happy; and every word of mine seems clumsy when you talk to me; and I feel of how little account I am beside you. [11]
E'fin, the door you shut you can open now, and you can go from the house of Jean Touzel. [11]
Sure enough, when you saw the shut doors and open windows of those empty houses, all white without in the sun and dark within, and not a human to be seen, you could believe almost anything. [11]
No, sir, faith, you must shut your eyes. [9]
Henceforth this house would be shut to him, and all others save Mr. Brinsmade's. [9]
For him the world was suddenly shut out, and he only saw the woods of a late summer's afternoon, a lonely tent--and a woman. [11]
Now the outside world was shut out from Fournel's senses as it was from Louis Racine's. [11]
We were among woods and rocks, hills and gorges--so shut in, in fact, that when we peeped through a chink in a curtain, we could discern nothing. [5]
Besides, the wild wood was a second home to me, and now I was shut up in a convent where the silence about me crushed me like a too tight bodice. [10]
I am filled with the wonder of her knowledge, acquired because shut out from all distraction. [5]
Why," he continued, with his whimsical look, "just before I left Washington, in comes one of your Missouri senators with a list of Rebels who are shut up in McDowell's and Alton. [9]
An' he died with his teeth so tight shut I couldn't have pried them open with a knife. [13]
A big war will temporarily shut up the Suez Canal some day and the English ships will have to go to India around the Cape of Good Hope again; then England will have to have Bourbon and will take it. [5]
I declare I will not endure it any longer, and if you try to keep me shut up, I will run away from this temple, for outside it is all bright and pleasant, and here it is dingy and horrid! [10]
And in that wild covert Venters shut his eyes under the great white stars and intense vaulted blue, bitterly comparing their loneliness to his own, and fell asleep. [13]
He asked them why they were in prison, and when they said they were Baptists, he smiled, and inquired-- "Is that a crime to be shut up for in a prison? [5]
The question is, who is going to steal out to the sakkia to- night, to shut the one sluice and open the other? [11]
Thou, O Lord, who didst let the water-flood overflow her, didst not let the deep swallow her up, nor the pit shut its mouth upon her. [6]
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]
That blessed clairvoyance which sees into things without opening them, --that glorious license, which, having shut the door and driven the reporter from its key-hole, calls upon Truth, majestic virgin! [6]
They know that when the initiated come upon her first erudite allusion, or upon any one of her other stage-properties, they can shut their eyes and tell what will follow. [5]
Mrs. Holt's lips were tightly shut as she descended and made her way up the steps. [9]
Almost instantly we were shut up as in a fog, the driving snow was so thick. [5]
At last all were seated, the carriage steps were folded and pulled up, the door was shut, somebody was sent for a traveling case, and the countess leaned out and said what she had to say. [2]
The Magi, however, were not deceived; they shut themselves up in their palace, assembled an army in the Nisaean plain, promised the soldiers high pay, and used every effort to strengthen the belief of the people in Gaumata's disguise. [10]
Without delay Melissa went on till she had reached the heavy curtain which, as she already knew, shut off Caesar's inner apartments. [10]
Of them it was written, that they shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for they neither go in themselves, neither suffer them that are entering to go in. [9]
When the door was shut she went to the bed, sat down on a chair beside it, and looked at Ferrol earnestly and sadly. [11]
When the door was shut again, and Stafford was alone, he staggered over to the writing-desk. [11]
The dangerous place was on slow, plodding boats, where the engineers drowsed around and allowed chips to get into the 'doctor' and shut off the water supply from the boilers. [5]
Because a man was married, was he to be shut up to one little narrow career, that of husband? [4]
But the mystery was explained when we got under way again; for these people were evidently bound for a large town which lay shut in behind a tow-head (i.e., new island) a couple of miles below this landing. [5]
At times he was drunk for forty hours at a stretch, when he would shut himself in his cabin and leave his ship to the care of Cockle, who navigated with the sober portion of the crew. [9]
Already the air was dissipated of its choking weight, and the vast solitude was filling with that sense of freedom which night seems to shut in as with four walls, and day to widen gloriously. [11]
When the coffee was brought, the door had been shut, and Dicky had drawn the curtain across, Selamlik Pasha said: "What great affair brings us together here, saadat el basha? [11]
Yet--" His mind was asking itself if this was a door opening, which he had no right to shut with his own hand. [11]
He turned and was about to shut the door, but she stopped him. [11]
And what we want to do is to make him shut down, especially. [9]
I hear them walk away, an' the door shut behin' them. [11]
He shut the volume, and opened it again at a venture.--The story of Laocoon! [6]
But they were voices and voices only; for they who sang were as unkempt and forceless as the lonely wall which shut them in from the insistent soul of the desert. [11]
The house was very still and the blinds were drawn to shut out the heat, but the soft din of the locusts came through the windows. [11]
The weather was very hot, it had been many a day since Jack had seen ice-cream, and so it was useless to talk of leaving the saloon till it shut up. [5]
She did not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before the icon stand. [2]
Then he looked up, and seeing her, reached above his head to pull the lever that shut off the power. [9]
This fellow stood up with his eyes shut and his shoulders stooped forward a little, and looked as if he had his hands under his coat tails. [5]
They'll be shut up with Gretchen's windmill, and she'll just grind them to powder. [5]
She shut herself up there, without company, and without even a servant, and so abjured and forsook the world. [5]
Well, they shut up their cats for a while, but you know how it is with people; they got careless, and sure enough one night the trap took Mrs. Jones's principal tomcat into camp and finished him up. [5]
They had shut up the inhabitants of a village and a Turkish garrison in an old fort near Jericho, and were besieging them. [5]
Now you shut up that nonsense and climb out of this. [5]
I was shut up in my quarters with a bronchial cough, and glad to have something fresh to look at, something new to play with. [5]
Master Gridley shut up his book, leaving Solomon to his fate, like the worthy Benedictine he was reading, without discussing the question whether he was saved or not. [6]
The folks shut up at Harrod's said it was sure death ter cross the mountains now. [9]
He shut himself up at Hamley in his chemical place, like his father, like his father before him. [11]
When the physician turned round and saw her calmly and quietly wiping the cold drops from the sick man's brow, he said gloomily: "Of what use is it to shut our eyes like the ostrich. [10]
The two Annexes turn towards the mystic urn as if the lots which were to determine their destiny were shut up in it. [6]
While he is trying to shut the door on you he clasps you to his heart. [10]
Large tears now trickled down from his eyes, which he slowly shut and opened, his colossal frame shivered convulsively, and falling on his side he expired. [5]
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]
Don't come here to-morrow, for this place will be shut up. [12]
At eight o'clock to-morrow night she will be taken to the Convent of the Ursulines, to be there shut in. [11]
Then bid farewell to the world and shut yourself up for an invalid. [6]
He came close to the jurymen, leaned his hands upon the back of a chair--as it were, shut out the public, even the judge, from his circle of interest--and talked in a conversational tone. [11]
He had gone to the Cure every day, and the Cure had talked with him, and then had sent him to the tailor, who had, during the past six months, withdrawn more and more from the life about him, practically living with shut door. [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]
He told us to shut up, and maybe we'd feel better. [5]
Why are we to shut up the book weeping? [14]
She was able to shut the door there even against the solicitations of nature and against the weariness of it also. [4]
I don't want to shut out the mystery of the stars and the awful hollow that holds them. [6]
He knows when to shut his eyes. [11]
He knew when to shut his eyes, and when to keep them open. [11]
Honora has but to shut her eyes to see it aflame with tulips at Eastertide. [9]
He was about to open the window, when he heard a door shut below, and the thud of heavy steps outside the house. [11]
He was going to marry Guenever, as a first move; but she fled and shut herself up in the Tower of London. [5]
We will try to make it shut its eyes. [5]
Tell Caldwell not to let in any more idiots, and shut the door. [9]
I want you to keep a shut mouth. [11]
I suspect it to have been shut most of the time, for I observe a good many elderly people adjust the organ of vision to any optical instrument in that way. [6]
Yet the struggle to forget him constantly recalled him to her mind, no matter how earnestly she strove to shut out his image whenever it appeared. [10]
Many were beginning to drop their heads and shut their eyes, in anticipation of the usual petition before a meal; some expected the music to strike up,--others, that an oration would now be delivered by the Colonel. [6]
I went myself to clean up and make some broth, but that toad of a Portugais shut the door in my face. [11]
And what was to be seen on the spot he indicated was so horrible that she again shut her eyes, and this time she even covered them with her hands. [10]
The stab was to be made with the dagger shut, then the spring touched and the split blades withdrawn. [6]
Three or four times, as if in response to the call of the spectators, this was repeated, the curtain lifting every time on a different scene, and then it was all over, and the heavy mist shut down on the registered and the unregistered alike. [4]
From time to time she shut her eyes as tightly as she could, for she fancied she could see a crimson glare, and she longed for light in that hour as a drowning man longs for the shore. [10]
A stovepipe ran through the room, and it was warm, though the window was frosted and the world seemed shut out. [11]
Love does not thrive without hope, and Cyprian was beginning to see that it was idle in him to think of folding these wide wings of Myrtle's so that they would be shut up in any cage he could ever offer her. [6]
In consequence of this luckless prediction many of those born on the same day as myself were, like me, shut up at an early age in this cage. [10]
Else, why all this blind passion to save the life of that--that...." Jane shut out the light, and the hands she held over her eyes trembled and quivered against her face. [13]
All she could think of, all she wanted was to go on and on beside him with the world shut out--on and on forever. [9]
You do not think I would shut up my Bible and Prayer-Book because there is one more thing I do not understand in a world where I understand so very little of all the wonders that surround me? [6]
From the vital things, if there were vital things, she was shut out. [11]
They shut your things up in their houses where nobody comes, and after a while they overeat themselves--they don't know what, else to do--and die of apoplexy, and leave your pictures to a gallery, and then they see the light. [8]
And you see, they're so poor, and old, and friendless, and--' But I was ashamed by that time, and shut him off, and somehow felt a new courage in me, and so I said, softly, 'We'll keep them--the Lord will provide. [5]

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