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The big packers did not turn their hands off and close down, like the canning factories; but they began to run for shorter and shorter hours.

The livelong day he sat in his loom, his ear filled with its monotony, his eyes bent close down on the slow growth of sameness in the brownish web, his muscles moving with such even repetition that their pause seemed almost as much a constraint as the holding of his breath.

[He privately smoothed out the curls, with labor and dif- ficulty, and plastered his hair close down to his head; for he held curls to be effeminate, and his own filled his life with bitterness.] Then Mary got out a suit of his clothing that had been used only on Sundays during two years -- they were simply called his "other clothes" -- and so by that we know the size of his wardrobe.

And in all seriousness they have set a gun- boat to watch the vessel night and day, with orders to close down on any revolutionary movement in a twinkling!

Onward through the dim wood they passed until the shadows of the quick coming Martian night commenced to close down upon them.

It was very near, but not yet in sight; when, in addition to the tramp, tramp, I heard a rush under the hedge, and close down by the hazel stems glided a great dog, whose black and white colour made him a distinct object against the trees.

She drew an arm round my neck, and drew my head close down to hers as she sat in the chair.

I got in, and the boy shut the window close down, to keep out the cold.

Bertha Kircher was no coward, whatever else she may have been, but as night began to close down around her she could not shut out from her mind entirely contemplation of the terrors of the long hours ahead before the rising sun should dissipate the Stygian gloom--the horrid jungle night--that lures forth all the prowling, preying creatures of destruction.

The cultivated ground, with its beautiful productions, interspersed with cottages, comes close down to the water's edge.

In his words, 'You know that once it's public holidays, the shipping companies and the terminal operators would close down for business at the ports in Nigeria.

In a media statement issued by NANU Kunene Regional Coordinator Junias Shilunga on Sunday, NANU labelled the decision by the government to close down the National Health Training Centers as reckless.