Shut up about waste

Usage examples of close.

But now hold up thine heart, and keep close for these two days that we shall yet abide in Tower Dale: and trust me this very evening I shall begin to set tidings going that shall work and grow, and shall one day rejoice thine heart.

Behind the closed gates, I could see that the house was ablaze with light and merriment.

Close to the battle, he had as much difficulty making himself heard as those aboard Endymion.

He urged her back against the closed door and kissed her neck, the bristle from his shaven jaw abrading her and making her skin tingle.

He could feel the points abrading his skin and saw stars for a moment behind his closed lids.

Here he reared a continuous rampart with a ditch in front of it, fair-sized forts, probably a dozen in number, built either close behind it or actually abutting on it, and a connecting road running from end to end.

Banish came closer until he was standing right in front of Abies, the muzzle of the .

A woman raised in an environment so full of honor and respect, and someone who, according to the academician, led her whole family around by their noses, had thought it worthwhile to talk to him, and in a way that came rather close to friendliness.

But they had come in on the space drive, and had gotten fairly close before the gravitational field had drained the power from the main coil, and it was not until the space field had broken that they had started to accelerate toward the star.

The bigger the acceleration that the drives produce, the closer to the disk we move the living-capsule up the central column here.

Closest approach distances for every body within five hundred AU, assuming McAndrew held the same course and acceleration all the way out.

Between the ships and the blue and white planet curved a vast section of the broken accelerator ring, a section so huge that it was impossible to tell from close up that it was a mere fragment of what had once been the greatest monument of interstellar civilization.

Zaguri and the house of Memmo, who both sought after his always interesting conversation, accepting from this man all he had of good, and closing their eyes, on account of his genius, upon the perverse parts of his nature.

The evening air had cooled considerably, and Ace sat hunched close to the campfire.

As the closing bars of the elegant waltz filled the ballroom, Acer shoved his way drunkenly through the dancers, marching toward Rackford and Daphne.