Closed-in Sentence Examples

Jonny was silent and still, his eyes closed in concentration.

The mine tunnel narrowed and the pair was forced to hunch down under the low ceiling that closed in the fetid air around them like a soaked and musty blanket.

He leapt through the portal before it closed in time to see which one Jade chose.

He was going to try to make her come to him.  She'd know where Katie was, and Rhyn could find her before more demons closed in.

Two more closed in on her, but she danced away, luring one into a trap and throwing the second off guard long enough to escape his outstretched grasp.

Early in the 19th century the venue of the dinner, which had now become a ministerial function, was transferred to Greenwich, and though at first not always held here, was later celebrated regularly at the "Ship," an hotel of ancient foundation, closed in 1908.

Woolwich remained the chief dockyard of the English navy until the introduction of iron ship building, but the dockyard was closed in 1869.

The two first of these three are handsome suspension bridges; the third, an iron structure, replaced a wooden bridge of many arches which was closed in 1881, after standing a little over a century.

The nominal reign of the last king of Ulster closed in 1200.

The one corn-mill of Nantwich was converted into a cotton factory in 1789, but was closed in 1874.

The process carrying the otolith outer side of a or concretion hk, formed by endoderm cells, is tentacle, two enclosed by an upgrowth forming the " vesicle," nerves run round which is not yet quite closed in at the top. the base of the (After Hertwig.) tentacle to it.

The university of Orihuela, founded in 1568 by the archbishop of Valencia, was closed in 1835, part of the revenue being applied to the support of a college affiliated to the university of Valencia.

In 1736 he set about the erection of a new theatre, "at vast expense," in Carrubber's Close, Edinburgh; but the opposition was too strong, and the new house was closed in 1737.

The Dutch trade was closed In 1814; the Swedish had been abolished in 1813.

The burden of maintaining it, however, proving too great for the society's means, appeal was made in vain to government for national support, and the station was closed in 1904.

The battle of Austerlitz began early next morning and closed in the evening with the thorough and decisive defeat of the allies.

In the meanwhile, however, the Saxons had been moving from Naumburg through Gera on' Jena, Hohenlohe was near Weimar, and all the other divisions of the army had closed in a march eastwards, the idea of an offensive to the southward which Napoleon had himself attributed to them having already disappeared.

The nervous system is thus essentially epidermal in position and diffuse in distribution; but an interesting concentration of nerve-cells and fibres has taken place in the collar-region, where a medullary tube, closed in from the outside, opens in front and behind by anterior and posterior neuropores.

The next day Wellington closed in upon Bayonne from the sea to the left bank of the Nive.

Georgetown is the seat of the Southwestern University (Methodist Episcopal, South, co-educational), formed in 1873 (chartered 1875) by the combination of Ruterville College (Methodist Episcopal, at Ruterville, Texas, chartered in 1840, and closed in 1850), McKenzie College (at Clarksville, Texas, founded in 1841 and closed in 1872), Wesleyan College at San Augustine (chartered in 1844, burned a few years later, and not rebuilt), and Soule University at Chapel Hill (chartered in 1856, but closed in 1870).

Amongst the public buildings are the Belford hospital, public hall, court house and the low-level meteorological observatory, constructed in 1891, which was in connexion with the observatory on the top of Ben Nevis, until the latter was closed in 1904.

Flies, outnumbered by two to one, sustained a sharp reverse before the other columns closed in.

During the returnstroke the latter was kept closed in virtue of the partial vacuum formed within the cylinder, while at the same time the former n'as forced open by the pressure of the denser air in the vessel and nozzle.

Of the house, which was closed in 1810, only a few buildings remain.

Freetown is picturesquely situated on a plain, closed in behind by a succession of wooded hills, the Sierra Leone, rising to a height of 1700 ft.

This seminary was, however, closed in about six months, and on the 2nd of March 1736/7 both Johnson and Garrick left Lichfield for London - Johnson, as he afterwards said, " with twopence halfpenny in his pocket," and Garrick " with three-halfpence in his."

North and north-west the lake is closed in by the volcanic Buru hills; to the south towers the extinct volcano of Longonot.

In India 3 the earliest English mint was that at Madras which was bought by the East India Company in 1620, reorganized more than once and finally closed in 1869.

A mint was opened in Hong-Kong in 1866 but was closed in 1868 and the machinery sold to Japan.

The series of attempts on the queen was closed in 1882 by Maclean, who fired a pistol at her majesty as she was leaving the Great Western Railway station at Windsor.

In that year the monastery of Monte Cassino was founded in the West, while the school of Athens was closed in the East.

The Stellenbosch valley is closed in by ranges of hills beyond which, eastward, lies Frenchhoek valley, with a village of the same name.

For the rest, it is obvious that if the Syrian phaina was still quite closed in the 13th century, and was only provided with a slit since that time, the same is very probable in the case of the Armenian chasuble.

The former British "factory" here was of great importance for the trade with the Levant, but was closed in 1825.

Salerno university, founded in 1150, and long one of the great seats of learning in Italy, was closed in 1817.

Paderborn formerly possessed a university, founded in 1614, with faculties of theology and philosophy, but this was closed in 1819.

The ancient athenaeums of Franeker (1585) and Harderwyk (1603) were closed in 1811, but that of Amsterdam was converted into a municipal university in 1877.

The development is only slightly known, but there is some evidence for believing that the fruit-body is closed in its very early stages.

It was closed in two days, and the teachers fined before the court of peers.

The Carthusians were expelled in 1782 by the emperor Joseph II., and after being held by the Cistercians in 1784 and the Carmelites in 1789 the monastery was closed in 1810.

The primordium of the neurochord (neural or medullary plate) referred to above becomes closed in from the surface by the overgrowth of surrounding epiblast, and its edges also bend up, meet, and finally fuse to form a tube, the medullary or neural tube.

The council of Trent, opened in 1545 and closed in 1563, decreed a formal purgation of the church, affirmed the fundamental doctrines of Catholicism, strengthened the papal supremacy, and inaugurated that movement of resistance which is known as the Counter-Reformation.

Here a school of art was founded by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, R.A., but it was closed in 1904, and subsequently revived in other hands.

The Roman war was closed in 165 by a peace which ceded north-west Mesopotamia to Rome.

His official career closed in 1866, but he remained one of the leaders of the clerical party.

The old parish kirkyard was closed in 1856, but a fine cemetery was constructed in its place outside the town.

The sac is open to the exterior in most of the Macrura, but completely closed in the Brachyura.

The last turnpike trust ceased to exist on the 5th of November 1895, and the final accounts in connexion with its debt were closed in 1898-1899.

Thus the last year of the century closed in disappointment and gloom.

The village consists of wooden cottages with an inn (gdstgifvaregard), a church, and frequently a collection of huts without windows, closed in summer, but inhabited by the Lapps when they come down from the mountains to the winter fairs.

The spaces between were closed in with rods (usually hazel) firmly interwoven.

His last telescopic discovery - that of the moon's diurnal and monthly librations - was made in 1637, only a few months before his eyes were for ever closed in hopeless blindness.

D, Ventral view of embryo, in which the blastopore has completely closed in its middle portion.

At Addiscombe in the neighbourhood was formerly a mansion dating from 1702, and acquired by the East India Company in 1809 for a Military College, which on the abolition of the Company became the Royal Military College for the East Indian Army, and was closed in 1862.

The head of the gulf of Ismid is gradually silting up. The dockyard was closed in 1879, and the port of Ismid is now at Darinje, 3 m.

The barrel waved unsteadily on the chest of the savage as he closed in on Bordeaux.

The other guests were nowhere about—the children off playing hide and seek, Edith still closed in her room and Gladys dreaming of far off galaxies.

Site Description / Context The site is a 76 hectare former airfield which closed in 1957.

The police station, which closed in 1971, was opposite the rear entrance - the corner stone is preserved in the flower bed.

Our family boatyard closed in the mid 80's, not 70's as stated.

Stocks of munitions were reduced after the war and the site was finally decommissioned and closed in 1961.

These terraces were built for the workers at the adjacent Mold Junction motive power depot, closed in 1966.

The canal was closed in 1914 having been un-navigable for several years and fell into considerable disrepair.

It opened in 1927 and was built to bypass the terrible traffic congestion, and it was actually closed in 2003 amidst much lamentation.

A number of large state orphanages have been closed in the county during the past few years.

In addition, the notorious prison at Kidal (a symbol of the years of repression) was closed in 1997.

A UK trial looking at gene therapy for early stage prostate cancer closed in October 2004.

The Foyers works and its associated railroad were closed in 1967, with the same steam pug still in operation.

The Waveney House Hotel closed in 2001 and has since undergone extensive external and internal refurbishment.

The world seemed remarkably unfamiliar; more closed in some ways; more accessible in others.

Rawson's chemical plant stop producing vitriol in around 1834 and the plant was sold to a Mr Wilson but closed in 1875.

The shell of the Pulmonata, though always light and delicate, is in many cases a well-developed spiral " house," into which the creature can withdraw itself; and, although the foot possesses no operculum, yet in Helix the aperture of the shell is closed in the winter by a complete lid, the " hybernaculum," more or less calcareous in nature, which is secreted by the froot.

When the Abyssinia mission was closed in 1838 one of the missionaries, Krapf, went among the Gallas and then on to Mombasa, working in company with Rebmann.

He became lieutenant governor of Virginia in June 1710, when he was received with some enthusiasm, because he brought to the colony the privilege of habeas corpus; his term as governor closed in September 1722 - probably because he meddled in ecclesiastical matters; but he remained in Virginia, living near his ironworks in Germanna, a settlement of Germans, on the Rapidan in Spottsylvania county (named in his honour) and he was deputy postmaster-general of the colonies from 1730 to 1739.

The rivers (Tuloma, Onega, Dvina, Mezen and Pechora) are closed in September and scarcely thaw before July.

When the Perkins Institution closed in June, Helen and her teacher went south to Tuscumbia, where they remained until December.

At the moment when Vereshchagin fell and the crowd closed in with savage yells and swayed about him, Rostopchin suddenly turned pale and, instead of going to the back entrance where his carriage awaited him, went with hurried steps and bent head, not knowing where and why, along the passage leading to the rooms on the ground floor.

Count Rostopchin suddenly grew pale as he had done when the crowd closed in on Vereshchagin.

Additionally it has been a producer of tin ores mainly associated with rhyolite dikes, one such mine Wheal Jane only closed in 1990.

Rawson 's chemical plant stop producing vitriol in around 1834 and the plant was sold to a Mr Wilson but closed in 1875.

Yellow Wort flowers were closed in the heat of the afternoon.

The Kenosha Outlet Mall, also referred to as the Original Outlet Mall, is no longer up and running and closed in 1996.

You might think that too much color or pattern in a small space would make it feel closed in or overdone, but think of your space like a jewel box and give it some pop.

This helps keep the apartment from feeling closed in by things.

For example, vertical stripes can elongate the space and horizontal stripes can make it look wider, but bold patterns like damask can make the space feel more closed in.

If the color you decide on is a dark color and the bathroom is small, pulling it to the side will still provide complementing color, but will keep the room lighter and brighter so it doesn't feel closed in.

Some feature zippers and buttons, while others only snap closed in the front.

Brakes designed to remain closed in case of power failure or loss of air pressure.

It closed in 1946 and many of the parts went into making the Crystal Beach Comet, another wooden roller coaster that wasn't as exciting.

This was the case with Miracle Strip Amusement Park in Panama City, Florida, which closed in 2004 due to declining attendance, and the MGM Amusement Park in Las Vegas, which gradually shrank and closed as attendance dwindled.

After the amusement park closed in 1989, much of the Crystal Beach community fell into neglect and disrepair, which is the fate of many abandoned amusement parks and their neighborhoods.

Housing projects began to replace what was once the site of quality amusement park rides, and the final major park on the island - Steeplechase Park - closed in 1964.

The water park is open year round, but may be closed in mid-week during off peak months in the fall and winter.

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The facility officially closed in 1954 and remained out of service until 1976, when Ellis Island was reopened to the public.

Later, the hotel closed in the 1980's for a major renovation.

After operating for 47 years, the mine closed in 2004.

The lumbering brick edifice called Northampton State Hospital warehoused mental patients for almost 200 years until it was finally closed in the late 1980s.

Manolo Blahnik's Gladiator features tons of straps in the front and is closed in the back.