shut in

• “Delaford is a nice place I can tell you; exactly what I call a nice, old-fashioned place, full of comforts, quite shut in with great garden-walls that are covered with fruit-trees, and such a mulberry-tree in the corner.”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

• “The Chatterleys, two brothers and a sister, had lived curiously isolated, shut in with one another at Wragby, in spite of all their connexions.”

  Lady Chatterley's Lover

• “The field-folk shut in there traded northward and westward, travelled, courted, and married northward and westward, thought northward and westward; those on this side mainly directed their energies and attention to the east and south.”

  Tess of the d'Urbervilles

• “The plain or wadi, also called Quadis, is shut in by surrounding hills so as to make it a most desirable position for such a people as the”

  Smith's Bible Dictionary

• “And if tyrants have been ejected from us, why do I still shut in the acropolis by a wall of circumvallation, at least on my account; for if it still stands, what does it do to me? why do I still eject guards?”

  The Discourses of Epictetus

• “Pontecorvo, two principalities which belonged to the Holy See, but which were shut in by the Kingdom of Naples.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

• “Ere long, steps retreated up the gallery towards the third-storey staircase: a door had lately been made to shut in that staircase; I heard it open and close, and all was still.”

  Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I.

• “In the fourteenth century it produced the fine mosaic cycle of Kahrie-djami and at the beginning of the fifteenth century, within the solitude of Athos, shut in by the”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip

• “On the north it is shut in by the high ranges of Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon, and by the chasm of the Litany.”

  Smith's Bible Dictionary

• ““My Father would be quite wild at the 'view' from the garden terrace ” but he would be disgusted at the shut in feeling of the house, which is in fact as much shut in as our old Herne Hill one; only to get the 'view' I have but to go as far down the garden as to our old 'mulberry tree.”

  The Life of John Ruskin

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