"Close up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... got home and was turning the books over with Mr. Glanbally, just in the edge of the evening, when the door opened quick and a little female figure came in. She came close up to the table with the air of one ...
— Hills of the Shatemuc • Susan Warner
... Within the horseshoe and close up to it stand the famous blue-stones, now twelve in number, but originally perhaps more. These stones are not so high as the trilithons, the tallest reaching only 7-1/2 feet. They are nearly all of porphyritic diabase. ...
— Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders • T. Eric Peet
... stories reported of these desert phantoms, which are said at times to fill the air with choral music from all kinds of instruments, from drums, and the clash of arms: so that oftentimes a whole caravan are obliged to close up their open ranks, and to proceed in ...
— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey
... next to impossible altogether to prevent; nor was that indeed the wish of Adorni, but rather to facilitate his admission, and afterwards, when satisfied of his actual presence, to bar up all possibility of retreat. Accordingly, the interior arrangements, though perfectly prepared, and ready to close up at the word of command, were for the present ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey
... box began to move, and I formed a sudden determination. Making no sound in my heelless Turkish slippers I crept close up to the door and ...
— The Quest of the Sacred Slipper • Sax Rohmer
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