"Closed in" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... waited until she began to feel as she felt always in these dreadful days the dead silence of the house. It was the thing which most struck terror to her soul—that horrid stillness. The servants whose place was in the basement were too much closed in their gloomy little quarters to have made themselves heard upstairs even if they had been inclined to. During the last few weeks feather had even found herself wishing that they were less well trained and would make a little noise—do ...
— The Head of the House of Coombe • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... once again, arose The Hebrew prophet's hand, And o'er the waiting deep outstretched Once more that awful wand;— The rushing waters closed in might Above that pathway lone, And Pharaoh, in his haughty pride, And all his ...
— Poems of the Heart and Home • Mrs. J.C. Yule (Pamela S. Vining)
... the meaning of that! It was horribly familiar to him. He was back in hell—back in the torture-chamber where he had so often agonized, closed in behind those bars of iron which he had fought so often and so fruitlessly ...
— The Bars of Iron • Ethel May Dell
... Again they closed in upon the wolf, who had begun to grow more wary and had hit up his speed, dodging and turning on his trail, making some swift turns and nimble feats of horsemanship necessary to keep within ...
— Ted Strong in Montana - With Lariat and Spur • Edward C. Taylor
... flood, and the current rushed like a mill-race. Dorothy fairly held her breath as the canoe rode over the surging waters. The river seemed to narrow, and great black walls of rock wet with spray and streaked with patches of orange and green closed in upon them. They came to a bend where the water roared and boiled angrily, its surface being broken with great blue silver-crested furrows. Suddenly Pepin uttered a strange, hoarse cry. There had been an immense landslide, and the entire channel had been altered. Right in their path lay a broad whirlpool. ...
— The Rising of the Red Man - A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion • John Mackie
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