close-shut

Miss Rawlins looked down as well as I; her eyelids half closed, as if mumbling a pater-noster, meditating her snuff-box, the distance between her nose and chin lengthened by a close-shut mouth.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Along the ravine, on one side, tidy barns, little storehouses with close-shut doors; on the other side, five or six pinewood huts with boarded roofs.

Dream tales and prose poems 2006

And I wondered, Why am I here, on this ridge of the Alps, in the lamp-lit, wooden, close-shut room, alone?

Twilight in Italy 2003

Images of the outbursts of trivial anger which he had often noted among his masters, their twitching mouths, close-shut lips and flushed cheeks, recurred to his memory, discouraging him, for all his practice of humility, by the comparison.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

I was carried up the steps into a close-shut hall.

Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman 2002

He felt weak and small before the girl whom he had thought to bend to his will, and made no effort now to keep her from entering the house, but stepped to the window beside her and raised it, endeavoring all the while to get a word of forgiveness from her close-shut lips.

Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth

No matter what element of the public sentiment he met -- the listlessness of pampered wealth; the brutal prejudice of some voting savage; the refined sneer of lettered dilettanteism; the purposed aversion of trade or pulpit fearing disturbed markets or pews; -- he beat lustily and incessantly at all the parts of the iron image of wrong sitting stolidly here with close-shut eyes.

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. William Still

Though I pressed my hot fingers against my close-shut eyes, I still could see my poor love's white, set face, the great hollows in his bearded cheeks, the blue veins on his thin temples, and the large eyes, one moment all love-lighted, the next, stricken with horror at the sight of my unfaith.

Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine Annie T. Colcock

Markham frowned at the placid face and close-shut eyes.

A Son of the Hills

A pride, not altogether unworthy, rang in the words and for the first time Markham detected a resemblance to the father in the close-shut lips.

A Son of the Hills