"Shut down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thought I'd rather die than tack up the notice that we were going to shut down and turn off those ...
— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes
... "But we can't shut down the whole business, can we?" asked Mr. Hardy, with a momentary touch of his old-time ...
— Robert Hardy's Seven Days - A Dream and Its Consequences • Charles Monroe Sheldon
... he exclaimed presently. "The old god in here" (somehow we all thought of this old man as not quite normal) "shut down the Glittering Lady's coffin and bolted it. His own is not bolted, although the bolt exists in the same place. He just got in and pulled down the lid. Oh! what nonsense I am talking—for how can such things be? Let us ...
— When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot • H. Rider Haggard
... amateur chauffeur shut down the throttle and jumped out, turning to face the girl. She was by the step almost before he could offer a hand to help her in, and as she paused to render him his due meed of thanks, it became evident that she harbored little ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance
... the fish can with ease go in between the points of these cross-bars, but the mill being shut down they can go no farther upwards; and when the water ebbs again, they are left behind, not being able to pass the points of the grating, as above, outwards; which, like a mouse-trap, keeps them in, so that they are left at the bottom ...
— From London to Land's End - and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman" • Daniel Defoe
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