| 单词 | closed book |
| 例句 | The answer was always there, tucked away within the brittle pages of that closed book—Papá. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I'd glance at her occasionally, but that girl is a closed book. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He did want, however, to see the evidence from King’s before he considered the matter a closed book. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Put your hands together tight like a closed book. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z But at the same time he was a closed book. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z When she was growing up, Xie said, stories about this era were a closed book. Jenny Xie Explores the Subversive Power of the Concealed and the Overlooked 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Although it ends, as such works usually do, on a note of triumph, the film, whose screenplay is by Keir Pearson and Timothy J. Sexton, does not present history as a closed book. Movie Review: Hero Worship Abounds in ‘Cesar Chavez’ 2014-03-27T22:07:35Z He found himself invited to science fiction conventions, and embraced by the world of SF fandom, hitherto a closed book to him. Iain Banks: 'A star whose light will travel a long way' 2013-06-10T16:56:34Z Why does he remain a closed book for many music lovers? The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z Sometimes it doesn’t even seem to matter what’s between the covers, as when he photographs only the edges of closed books. Art Review: Ed Ruscha at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea 2012-12-27T23:01:26Z “As you know, I’m not normally a closed book on this stuff,” Sean told me. The Washington gambler 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z When the bank collapsed, her loan was one of thousands sold by the government to so-called "closed book" lenders. Mortgage prisoners: Government made £2.4bn from loan sales, report says 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z A "free hit" is how Mott described the je ne sais quoi that Stokes brings to the team, with his inclusion in England's XI a closed book as far as Foster is concerned. Stokes, Hales & Buttler - England's World Cup conundrums 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z U.S. insurers have in recent years been offloading closed books of annuity business, which require significant capital to be put aside and provide limited revenue growth as no new policies are being written. MetLife explores sale of variable annuity business - sources 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z I would try to get close to him, and he was by no means a closed book, but there was always a distance. L.A. Affairs: He wanted me to be his COVID sidepiece 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z But its automated system for avoiding collisions is a closed book where openness and coordination are needed the most, analysts and operators say. OneWeb, SpaceX satellites dodged a potential collision in orbit 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z “It was in every respect a closed book.” Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, who brought the Talmud within reach of millions, dies at 83 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z But while we’re here, I think of the hinges: They are closed books at present, but the stories haven’t stopped forming. Opinion | Have Separation Anxiety? Try Holding a Hinge 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Isolating players to resume the NBA season sounds like a closed book if National Basketball Players Association executive director Michele Roberts is telling the story. NBPA president: NBA 'bubble' plan 'incarceration' 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z A lot of the stuff we know as fact turns out to be closed book fiction, a version of the truth steeped in the memory and settled now as a matter of certainty. World Cup questions: Were England robbed by Argentina at Mexico 86? | Barney Ronay 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z In a way, it was a good ending, in the fact that it wasn’t completely definitive or a closed book. Netflix's class warfare movie 'The Platform' has struck a chord. Two economists explain why 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z The closed book insurance business deals in policies that are shut to new customers and where scale is important to generate profit. Phoenix to buy Swiss Re's ReAssure unit for $4.1 billion 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z But the past is not a closed book. Are men the main target of sexual harassment in Iraq? 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z It was an impressive reveal, with Samsung holding up a device that seemed to easily collapse from a tablet into a closed book. Samsung teases foldable phone news during Galaxy S10 event 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z The closed book history of that World Cup quarter-final, an event most people will have watched once, 34 years ago, states that the game was pretty much even. World Cup questions: Were England robbed by Argentina at Mexico 86? | Barney Ronay 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z But a Nevisian company is a closed book, and some people really like it that way. Nevis: how the world’s most secretive offshore haven refuses to clean up 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z “I don’t look at anything like a closed book,” he said. ‘A little weird’ for McCutchen in return to Pittsburgh 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z “It’s not a closed book by any stretch … It’s reasonable to expect that more debris may be recovered in the weeks and months ahead, which may lead to further information to solve this puzzle.” Malaysia Airlines flight MH370: Australia says cost didn't force suspension of search 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z Everyone knew only the best got in, everyone knew the company was something of a closed book. From a draughty hut to Hollywood: the rise of Peter Jackson's secretive animation giant 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Plus, the radiation technology which allows researchers to partially read closed books. The tech allowing you to read closed books and other news - BBC News 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z It considers Poland to be a closed book - history, finished,'' he says. Rescuing Warsaw's overgrown Jewish graves - BBC News 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z At one point Swiss Re had sought to sell Admin Re—which deals in so-called closed book policies that are no longer being sold to new customers, yet continue to draw premium payments. Swiss Re Pays $2.45 Billion for Guardian Financial Services 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Fedora said the suspensions were a “closed book for me and football” separate from the school’s probe. Mother of UNC player awaits school’s investigation 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z The temptation will be to breathe a sigh of relief in January and consider this another closed book. America’s Afghanistan commitment is not ending Saudi politics remained a closed book to Westerners and it was hard to judge–not that we do so great with US politics, eh, Eric Cantor? For Oil Prices, Uncertainty Is As Big A Threat As ISIS 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z In his foreword to the report he writes "Seven is too young to write off a child" but he adds that without good reading skills "all other subjects are a closed book". Too many pupils 'failures at seven' 2013-10-08T01:13:57Z Then, taking the closed book and, without opening it, sliding the paper-knife between the pages, I resumed the conversation, and the result with this last method was always inexact. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z So far as this inclosure is concerned, the annals of the hamlet are as a closed book. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Two or three things that day I had been sent for—things whose whereabouts were a closed book. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z By God's mercy the future is a closed book to us; and Curran knew not the agony which lay in wait for him, though even now he was suspicious of the joy that intoxicated Dublin. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z The abundant Irish literature that has been so diligently studied during the last quarter of a century was a closed book to Borrow, whose few translations from the Irish have but little value. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z But the Heart of the Woods was a closed book to most fourteen-year-old boys born and brought up in the little tidal town of Exmouth. A Scout of To-day 2012-01-11T03:00:22.820Z And as to teaching them to admire their own hills, why they love them more than you do, for Nature isn't to them a closed book in winter as it seems to you.' A Witch of the Hills, v. 2-2 2011-12-15T03:00:17.253Z He had found her sitting alone over the library fire, leaning back with a tired, wasted look on her face, and a closed book on her knee. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z Everything apart from that was a closed book as far as she was concerned. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z He holds a crozier in his right hand and a closed book in his left. The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson 2011-10-18T02:00:19.523Z It may be because I was brought up in a Puritan family, but the whole subject of clutches is a closed book to me. Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z Verdi seems to have thoroughly caught the spirit of these dusky-coloured people, which is a closed book to most of the white race. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z He was a man whose past was a closed book to the world, nor would he allow his wife to turn over the pages. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z It was a world whose language was a closed book to him at present. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z She closed books at last, and sent them out into the garden to play before their early dinner. Jill's Red Bag 2011-08-13T02:00:21.893Z All those elaborate shots you hear described on the radio – hooks, square cuts, leg glances, back sweeps, cover-drives – were a closed book to us. Why would a blind man love cricket? For its sounds, its scores, its slowness 2011-08-05T21:00:02Z But the real emotions of life, the under-currents, the hates, loves, and strivings, had all been a closed book. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z He was, aside from obvious minor qualities, a closed book. The Last Straw 2011-06-27T02:00:58.100Z Mr. Weiner “brought this on himself, because he revealed, in effect, his personal life in a bizarre way,” said Mr. Koch, whose own personal life is a closed book. Nocturnalist: A Conversation About Scandal Turns Slightly Scandalous 2011-06-09T03:41:09Z To the hard-riding cowboy of the plains, the subtleties of emotion and romance are a closed book—just as the hand that whirls the rope is too crabbed to play the violin. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z The real true Page Allison is a closed book to that fat head. Back at School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-14T02:00:10.887Z I found it had been a closed book because I had never been interested enough to open it. At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-04T02:00:13.920Z Political strife was to him a closed book. Tales and Trails of Wakarusa 2011-03-08T03:00:41.730Z These early volumes of Stevenson, while doubtless well known to lovers of his works, are closed books to most casual travellers. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z For suppose that he had no choice but to go back and reopen the closed book of his life, and that nothing that Julia or I could do would stop him. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z “Except maybe for a few people in the inner circle, he’s a closed book.” Education of a President 2010-10-15T07:45:00Z She was sitting with a closed book on her knee, gazing into the fire. The Idyl of Twin Fires Science, however, in those days seems to have been a closed book to Lafcadio. Lafcadio Hearn Literature, in the conventional sense, may be a closed book to innumerable theater-goers who nevertheless can witness a drama and react to its exhibition of life. How to See a Play The second was Prudence in the form of a matron, young in aspect, with a mirror in the hand, and a closed book, and partly nude, partly draped. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol. IX (of 10) Michelagnolo to the Flemings The story of her childhood and youth is a closed book, but we know that she was carefully trained in rhetoric, music, and the fine arts, and became the possessor of every feminine accomplishment. Greek Women Tall male figure, bearded, holding closed book; in good preservation. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Before his eyes there is a being called Serge Petrovich for whom all that makes existence happy or bitter, deep and human, remains a closed book. Contemporary Russian Novelists The drainage of their chalky soil was such that their surface could not hold much moisture, and outside the Downs the world was as yet a closed book to Finn. Finn The Wolfhound The world’s thought had been a closed book to him. Carmen Ariza To primitive peoples nature was a closed book. How to Study As far as my football in Pomeroy is concerned," he gave answer, "it's a closed book. Interference and Other Football Stories That––the story of Paris––was still a closed book to her. The Heart of Thunder Mountain He holds a closed book in his R. hand, a sceptre in his L.: on the L. wrist is a maniple. Henry the Sixth A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir with Translation and Notes The top of the water might be a closed book to other people; but he could read, from the looks of it, just what there was underneath. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore To them all he was a closed book, tight-lipped, a mask of brooding care. The Prisoner Besides, Miss Cox was an assured Junior, and knew all about what was still a closed book to Ruth Fielding and Helen Cameron. Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall or Solving the Campus Mystery "The subject is quite a closed book to him," Jane sweetly replied, and the Colonel was threatened with another coughing spell. Sunlight Patch How lonely, how desolate it seemed; and the mourners too, sitting in the dreary rooms, with the agony of the gap upon them, the empty chair, the silent voice, the folded papers, the closed books! Beside Still Waters She read him the story of the stupid sinner from the long closed book of the past. Amabel Channice She had, for instance, a command of blandishments which to her elder were a closed book. Too Old for Dolls A Novel But whatever his story might have been, it must ever be to me a closed book. Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders He did, and I placed the closed book on the rack before me. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression It is one of Rhodesia's mysteries, and one also of its fascinations; those mysteries and fascinations which so far have effectually baffled all efforts to find the clue and read the closed book. The Rhodesian However, this naïve childish logic was a closed book to the chemists who made historical researches. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts A closed book held up against a sightless face. The World I Live In Each of them is like a closed book, with the back uppermost, on which we can read the title of what the book contains, but nothing more. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen The volume spread Before your dazzled eyes, so rich with life, Is a closed book—a fair illumined scroll, Traced in strange characters, unknown to you. Enthusiasm and Other Poems He rode far across the veldt, and for the first time for many a long year turned back the leaves of the closed book. The Rhodesian Your Veda Grammar will be a closed book to me, as you print in the later Devanagari goose-foot character. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities Becoming a closed book to her, the place and certain things which had been dear to her had become indistinct in her memory. Children of the Desert Left of the Emperor are five desks; with five closed books lying on the top of each. The Care of Books The symbol of St. Paul is the sword with which he was beheaded, and a closed book, in reference to his Epistles. The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness Ambition needs not be a closed book for women, unless they choose to close it. The Bertrams No answer occurred to Margaret at once, so she waited, gently drumming on the closed book with her loosely gloved fingers. Fair Margaret A Portrait He gave his closed book a sullen look. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim His closed book lay by his side, and he was staring straight before him, as a man that is newly awakened from a trance. The God of Love Two things were to her as a closed book: one was foreign languages and the other was music. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson There are parents who do not know their children: their development, their thoughts, the dangers they run, the hopes they cherish, are to them a closed book. The Simple Life That girl"—he touched the closed book as if it were the grave that concealed her—"has always come between me and later desires for a home and closer ties. Janet of the Dunes She sat in the pergola holding on her lap a closed book, between the pages of which she kept Lawrence's cablegrams and letters from London. Sacrifice The Bible was a closed book to the common people in France. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 Throughout the preceding Wednesday and Thursday attempts at the writing of music had been of constant occurrence; they had come on slates, on writing-pads, and on the leaves of closed books. The Shadow World It seemed to be in the nature of a closed book with the child. Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge He felt that in a case of this sort a girl's mind was a closed book to him. Half a Hero A Novel Her face turned deadly pale, and she clenched the closed book in her pallid hands. Hubert's Wife A Story for You With the closed book as a writing-pad, he addressed the envelope. The Sins of Séverac Bablon He does not read, and so knows nothing of the inspiration of literature, and the past is to him a closed book. Spirit and Music The great world of literature is too often a closed book. New Ideals in Rural Schools He was inspired with a positive enthusiasm for this force of steam, whose theory was a closed book to him, but on whose results he meditated much. The Man With The Broken Ear They are inclined to presume that science was a closed book to the men and women of that time. Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages All these delights are a closed book to the city boy. Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England The abundant Irish literature that has been so diligently studied during the last quarter of a century was a closed book to Borrow, whose few translations from the Irish have but little value. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends In the saddle, bedecked in his showy trappings, surrounded by his friends, Jack Summers had found his youth again, and the past was as a closed book, for the nonce. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail What happened up there yesterday is as a closed book. From the Housetops Meanwhile the waitress had ceased to write in her diary and now sat with the closed book on her knees and her pencil resting against her lips, gazing thoughtfuly at the back of Grue's head. Police!!! Romance was to her a closed book, and she felt no inclination to peep between the covers. Prudence of the Parsonage How many men has Macaulay succeeded in reaching, to whom all other history and criticism is a closed book, or a book in an unknown tongue! Studies in Early Victorian Literature The father's face had not moved a muscle; the mother's was like a handsome closed book. The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York The words, "I have done my duty," sealed the closed book of Nelson's story with a truth broader and deeper than he himself could suspect. The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain His mind, of course, except in certain moments when it all unconsciously was subjugated by her will, was a closed book to her. The Halo "Mr. Fowler, as far as I am concerned all that I learned from Field regarding you is a closed book and forgotten if you will break with Brown." The Enchanted Canyon The laws that hedge royalty in were no closed book to this wanderer over many lands. Charred Wood The prophets say the closed books shall be opened, the dead shall arise, darkness be turned into light; nothing be concealed. With the Boer Forces Fletcher Hill was as a closed book, and on some points Dot was equally reticent. The Odds And Other Stories They say life is a closed book to me. Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks It was a closed book wherein all appreciation of the long road which the religion of Israel had traversed in its evolution had been lost. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Eye-glasses and contraceptives alike are a portal to the spiritual world for many who, without them, would find that world largely a closed book. Little Essays of Love and Virtue We have no reason to suppose that this history is a closed book, or that the spiritual life struggling to emerge among ourselves will follow other laws. The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day On the right is seen the contemplative life; a woman praying, holding a closed book, opening it, reading it; she shuts it to meditate on it, teaches others, and falls into an ecstasy. The Cathedral Somehow there raced through her brain the exhilarating conviction that at last the mystery of her origin was to be cleared away, and with it all that had been as a closed book. The Daughter of Anderson Crow Politics, art, literature, science, are closed books to her. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Your heart has been a closed book to me. The Lamp in the Desert A few were reading, but most sat with finger in closed book. Story of Chester Lawrence A complete analysis of these experiences is, of course, impossible, but the various pleasurable feelings of which converts spoke in the revivals which I attended were a closed book to me. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy It was to be a closed book to them both. The Tidal Wave and Other Stories Without this art the Bible is a closed book, even to the closest student. Study of Child Life In the little easy chair by the open window, one hand keeping the place in the partly closed book, sat the young creature, whose life had so suddenly darkened around her. Ester Ried A woman who didn't conform to any standard he had ever set for himself, whose mind was a closed book to him, of whose very existence he had been ignorant until to-night. The Purple Heights It is in this way that the trained clairvoyant is able to read from closed books, sealed letters, etc. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers To the rural illiterate majority, change was a closed book. Civilization and Beyond Learning from History Below is the well-known graphic relief—a clock, and two opened and one closed book, with "The Times"—past and future, decorated with oak and laurel. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 368, May 2, 1829 Nature was to him a closed book, very likely for a purely physical reason. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge It was a closed book, a balanced account. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Reading from closed books, sealed envelopes, etc., and how it is explainable. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers The emotional side of life has always been a closed book to me, one I disdained to read. Bambi Nor can one assume for a moment that the history of Edison's laboratory is a closed book. Edison, His Life and Inventions But on some days he only sat there for half an hour with his finger between the leaves and the closed book resting on his knees. The End of the Tether His business is a closed book to her, in which she can have no interest, for her weary husband naturally revolts from talking “shop,” even if she is in a position to understand him. Worldly Ways and Byways The shooting had been a closed book between them. K There has, indeed, been developed a considerable mass of exact knowledge about the nature of the child, and about the laws of his development; but this knowledge has been for most parents a closed book. Your Child: Today and Tomorrow "And his past seems to be a closed book," I returned. The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles They knew naught of his parents or his antecedents; his private life was a closed book. The Four Faces A Mystery He eyed the closed books with an anticipatory gleam of pleasure in his face—as a commander may eye the arrayed squadrons of the foe. Roden's Corner Everything, in truth, which we cannot understand, is a closed book of larger knowledge and blessedness, whose clasps the blessed perplexity urges us to open. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. In the other, He sets His seal to the closed book of the world's history, and ushers in a renovated universe. Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI Sometimes these days there was a gleam in his dark eyes, a smile on the bearded lips that indicated the reopening of the closed book once more. Together There he sat—wide awake—holding his closed book on his knee, seemingly lost in his own thoughts. Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time All that side of life is a closed book to such as you. Roden's Corner Constance, with hands folded over the closed book on her lap, sat idly gazing on the blue expanse of water, watching the white little wave-crests that formed only to vanish so quickly. Fan : the story of a young girl's life "What is the matter?" demanded Mrs. Ferrall, withdrawing her finger from the pages and plumping the closed book down on her knee. The Fighting Chance The breezy healthfulness of travel, the teachings of art or science, the joys of rivers and green lanes—all these things are a closed book to them. Old Calabria Then, with closed books, he would give them the English in like manner to be turned into French. American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States Above was the half-length figure of a saint holding a closed book in his hand, and below was a youth with long hands in the act of adoration. The House of Whispers The actual knowledge of the happenings of war and of the considerations that persuade an Army Commander to any course of military conduct must, of necessity, be a closed book to the individual soldier. Sketches of the East Africa Campaign As he looked on, J.W. could understand something which had been a closed book to him before. John Wesley, Jr. The Story of an Experiment So, as far as he was concerned, those three sheets of paper were a closed book. Tales of St. Austin's Book.—An open book shows a desire for information and a mind ever on the alert to understand new theories and facts; a closed book is a sign of expectancy. Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves Yet, as there were no curtains, it struck the Germans that the danger was really none at all; for bed-clothes, massed upon each other, will no more burn than the leaves of a closed book. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater He realized that he must look on his career in the bank as a closed book. Psmith in the City The unholy rites of Voodoo are a closed book to the Western nations. Bat Wing Out of their cups the bees hummed as she walked amongst them, a closed book in her hand, dreaming. The Life of the Fields Hitherto the sea-shore had been a closed book to the Swiss naturalist, and now it opened to him a field of research almost as stimulating as his own glaciers. Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence It was as a closed book between them. Quill's Window He was too loyal to show it, and yet, that strong instinct of womanhood, which reads closed books as if they were spread open to the light, sounded its warning note. Winding Paths Faro is a closed book to most people, for its intricacies are confusing. The Spoilers Certain facts in life remain a closed book to them. Moral They used to say a man's life was a closed book. Observations By Mr. Dooley She was sitting with her hands on a closed book which rested on her knee. Basil The twenty-eight quarto volumes must be closed books for us. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Nature she understood; was art yet a closed book to her? The Woman Who Did It was, however, a narrow scrape; as the ways and means of economy were a closed book to him and the second month brought no increase, he voiced his alarm. Flappers and Philosophers Miriam was sitting near the window, on her lap a closed book. The Emancipated Talbot slid his closed book into his satchel. Ulysses We infer that the igneous rock when in a molten state was forced between the strata, much as a card may be pushed between the leaves of a closed book. The Elements of Geology It is by no means to the credit of our country that, except to scholars, it long remained in England, an almost entirely closed book. The Decameron, Volume I When you see a young woman read a closed book placed on her dorsal vertebræ,—if you do believe that she so reads it, you think that she is endowed with a wonderful faculty! The Duke's Children In desert countries the comparison will be appreciated: in Sind the fine dust penetrates into a closed book. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] The exaggerated statement was made of Rashi, that "without him the Talmud would have remained a closed book." Rashi To him, France, the century, the new spirit, the instincts peculiar to the soil and the period are so many closed books. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo She had been reading, evidently aloud and when her visitor was announced rose with her finger still keeping the place in the closed book. Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) And such a man the son of Cyrus Hallowell was but an ignorant young savage, to whom "the" history certainly had been a closed book. The Red Cross Girl To many of you it is a closed book,—to many more Virchow may be thought a spent force. The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 The material achievement and progress of the West was a closed book to her; nor could the West open the book. The Strength of the Strong |
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