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Sentences starting with shutting

Shutting her eyes, she lay still for a moment --still and vague; she was only conscious of one thing, that a curtain had dropped on the terrible pictures she had seen, and that her mind was in a comforting quiet. [11]
Shutting the door of Orlando's bedroom behind him, he came quickly to her side and said: "Go to bed at once, young woman. [11]
Shutting one sluice and opening the other did not seem to meet the situation. [11]

Sentences ending with shutting

Jean Jacques' hands were opening and shutting. [11]
Presently he heard the faint noise of a gate shutting. [11]
Sometimes he would be seated in the gallery, tapping his foot on the floor, and sometimes pacing the garden walks with his hands opening and shutting. [9]

More example sentences with the word shutting in them

He has a wonderful knack at shutting his eyes to the sinister side of anything. [4]
The Mokattam Hills were like vast dun barriers guarding and shutting in the ghostly place, and, high above all, the minarets of the huge mosque upon the lofty rocks were impalpable fingers pointing an endless flight. [11]
And so he went back into his room, shutting the door. [9]
Why not give up the adventure, and come to this quiet, and this good peace, so shutting out the stir and violence of the world? [11]
Charley went over to the fire and sat down on a bench, opening and shutting the scissors mechanically. [11]
His hands were thrust down in the pockets of his linen coat; her hands opening and shutting her parasol slightly. [11]
So absorbed were they in the pursuit of wealth, of distraction, so satisfied with the current philosophy, so intent on surrounding themselves with beautiful things and thus shutting out the sterner view, that they had grown heedless of the divine message. [9]
About this time there was noticed an increased bustle in the passages, with a considerable opening and shutting of doors. [6]
Before her eyes there came a mist obscuring the Seigneur, and for an instant shutting out the world. [11]
Who blows out the gas instead of shutting it off? [6]
Moses drove homeward that sparkling day, shutting his eyes to the glare of the ice crystals on the pines, and thinking profoundly. [9]
The notion of shutting up is an exigency of the rounded period. [8]
Had he the right to call upon Rosalie for constant self-sacrifice, when, by shutting his eyes now, by being dead to Kathleen and her need, as he was dead to the world he once knew, the way would be clear to marry Rosalie? [11]
You say: "Dream no more dreams; yourself be as am I" Your hands clasped to your face, so shutting out the day. [11]
No plaintive sounds, no monotonous murmurs, no shutting of windows and doors at strange hours, as if something or somebody were coming in or going out, or there was something to be hidden in those dark mahogany presses. [6]
It was so much easier opening than shutting the gates of the flume! [11]
To this end, Mr Quilp encamped in the back parlour, having first put an effectual stop to any further business by shutting up the shop. [12]
Three nights ago Monsieur Doltaire was talking with me at a ball--ah, those feastings while you were lying in a dungeon, and I shutting up my love and your danger close in my heart, even from those who loved me best! [11]
It will be like shutting down a mint. [5]
It was cheer less, indeed!-not a living thing visible anywhere, not a human habitation; nothing but a vast white desert; uplifted sheets of snow drifting hither and thither before the wind--a world of eddying flakes shutting out the firmament above. [5]
The Young Doctor laid a hand on his shoulder gently, but presently went out, shutting the door after him. [11]
By this time it was three in the afternoon, and consequently it was not very long before night came--and not with a lingering twilight, but with a sudden shutting down like a cellar door, as is its habit in that country. [5]
I felt that I must look once more on the places I knew so well,--once more before shutting myself up in the world of recollections. [6]
He dropped his head on his arms and his chin on his knees, shutting out the sound and sobbing quietly. [11]
They both sat, he playing with the leaves of an orchid, she opening and shutting her fan absently. [11]
Pomfrette heard, and he drew himself together, his jaws shutting with ferocity, and his hand flying to the belt where his voyageur's case-knife hung. [11]
Note that he hath not the pulse of them with fevers, and by what Dorcas telleth me there hath been no long shutting up of the vice naturales. [3]
She was going from closet to bureau, opening this door and shutting that in her sitting-room and bedroom, in an aimless, distracted way. [4]
She spoke without faltering, save here and there; but even then I could see her brave spirit quelling the riot of her emotions, shutting down the sluice-gate of tears. [11]
Before he came down he opened a door near by and entered another room, shutting the door, and sitting down on a chair. [11]
It was a door shutting not far off. [11]
All morning the door of Jolicoeur's saloon was opening and shutting before his mind's eye, and there was a smell of liquor everywhere. [11]
But if it came to recognizing the union, or shutting down? [9]
If their newspaper calls you names, they need not be so particular about shutting doors softly or boiling potatoes. [6]
A woman hurrying across the street heard him, and went the faster, shutting her ears. [11]
The judge has a custom of rattling through with as much of this testimony as his patience will stand, and then shutting off the rest and striking an average. [5]

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