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Tested on their ability to, say, get a bit of food in a well-closed container, wolves keep trying and trying, and if the test is not rigged they eventually succeed through trial and error.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

Tested on their ability to, say, get a bit of food in a well-closed container, wolves keep trying and trying, and if the test is not rigged they eventually succeed through trial and error.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

Yet in her quiet bearing and her well-closed mouth there was an air of independence and authority.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

I opened the well-closed double doors and let a blast from the Arctic play havoc with the central heating.

Slay Ride Francis, Dick, 1920- 1974

If they could now get him to the ship and under a renewer, in a day's time he would have no more to show for that gash than a well-closed seam.

Breed to Come Norton, Andre 1972

For this we imprison a drop of the emulsion in a well-closed dish (evaporation must be impossible) arranged for microscopic observation.

Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture 1965

In spite of the clouds of mosquitos, which managed to invade even the well-closed in cabin, they passed a restful night, the engine working perfectly, and soon passed into the narrower reaches of the Yukon, and in the early morning came to the town of Rampart.

The Boy Scouts on the Yukon Ralph Victor

So at that time, behold me with fourteen sick men in the driving, drenching rain waiting in puddles of water outside the well-closed tent of the disciple of Esculapius.

A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

In order to estimate this, a known excess of alcoholic solution of potash is added to a weighed quantity of the oil, contained in a stout, well-closed bottle (an India-rubber stopper is the most convenient), which is then heated in a water oven until the liquid is clear, no oil bubbles being visible.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 Various

From the clasp of the knitted locks—from the keep of the well-closed doors,

Imprisoned Soul 1919