"Shut" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the door back I slipped behind it, but as luck would have it he shut it again behind him, and there we were left standing face ...
— The Adventures of Gerard • Arthur Conan Doyle
... any rate," thought Jack, as he shut his eyes against a fresh deluge of yellow water. "I wish to goodness I could only work myself free. I've got clear away from Saya Chone and the Strangler, and that's something to ...
— Jack Haydon's Quest • John Finnemore
... the assertion of the principles of individualism, of separatism—the separation of state from state, the maintenance of local religions, the development of the individual in that which is most peculiar and individual in him. Shut off land-wards from the primitive sources of those many elements it was to compose anew, shut off from all the rest of the world, to [104] which it presented but one narrow entrance pierced through that rock of Tempe, so narrow that "in the opinion of the ancients it might be ...
— Plato and Platonism • Walter Horatio Pater
... handsome rather than lovely. She said nothing more, but stood watching our progress, her tall figure absolutely motionless in its dark tunic, her eyes curiously intent upon us. I felt relief when the thick curtains of leaves shut us ...
— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien
... the chalet while you're away?' Lady Georgina asked, when she announced her intention. 'You can't shut it up to take care of itself. Every blessed thing in the place will go to rack and ruin. Shutting up a house means spoiling it for ever. Why, I've got a cottage of my own that I let for the summer in the best part of Surrey—a ...
— Miss Cayley's Adventures • Grant Allen
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