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More "Shut away" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... before les bleus should be marched away and lose their value as objects of interest by donning soldier clothes. Max recalled the day of his debut at West Point, a humble, modest "Pleb." This huge, gravelled courtyard, surrounded on three sides by tall, many-windowed barracks, and shut away from the Rue de Tlemcen by high iron railings, had no resemblance to the cadets' barracks of gray stone; but the emotions of the "Pleb" and of the recruit to the Legion were curiously alike. The same thought presented itself to the soldier ...
— A Soldier of the Legion • C. N. Williamson
... Turkish towels and their clothing in a shed at the back of the house, and when finally the rain began again to cut their eyes and shut away even the nearest view, she succeeded in dragging the reluctant and dripping Sylvia thither, and they again made ready for ...
— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham
... father," the girl answered in a low voice. "His room opens out of the warehouse, but mine is shut away in another part of the building. And Ah Fu ...
— Tales of Chinatown • Sax Rohmer
... atmosphere of violence and bloodthirstiness which the prosecution has sought to throw around these defendants, I am placing our case in your hands; I am intrusting to you gentlemen to decide upon the fate of ten human beings—whether they shall live or die or be shut away from their fellows for ...
— The Centralia Conspiracy • Ralph Chaplin
... these witnesses for Jesus kept their faith unsullied. Though deprived of every comfort, shut away from the light of the sun, making their home in the dark but friendly bosom of the earth, they uttered no complaint. With words of faith, patience, and hope, they encouraged one another to endure privation and distress. The loss of every earthly blessing could not force them to renounce their ...
— The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan • Ellen G. White
... silent from the stirring hum, And shut away the music and the mirth, And reckon up what may be left of worth When hearts are cold ...
— Poems: New and Old • Henry Newbolt
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