Because of his childhood, he was a fairly closed-up person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurly Birley] Reference

The section near us is mostly closed-up stores and abandoned apartments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Multiplying Menace] Reference

But the Pontiac was not in the garage and the house had a closed-up look.    From Wordnik.com.  [A STRANGER IS WATCHING] Reference

This is one or more closed-up, fenced-off, rusting old factories or mills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Johnson: The Storm That Created The "Rust Belt" Is Heading For Silicon Valley] Reference

He was asked, among other things, if he would write on double closed-up slates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert] Reference

If he don't imprison you in one of these old closed-up musty rooms, you will be lucky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

Traffic was sparse, mainly closed-up groundcars whose riders gave pedestrians wary glances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Game Of Empire]

I just drove - Fourth, Third, onto Mission, past the Moscone Center - cafes, closed-up shops.    From Wordnik.com.  [1st to Die]

Hardscrabble neighborhoods of run-down row houses, churches, the ruins of closed-up factories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lifeguard]

I just drove-Fourth, Third, onto Mission, past the Moscone Center - cafés, closed-up shops.    From Wordnik.com.  [1st to Die]

Ralph's head connected solidly with the closed-up space on the wall, and he staggered back, shaking it.    From Wordnik.com.  [While Other People Sleep]

There was but one way to approach the closed-up rooms, and that way led past the door of Madeline's room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

Frank Lamotte shudders and keeps his eyes turned away from the closed-up drawing room with its silent tenant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diamond Coterie] Reference

A fair distance along the waterfront, past the new marina and a few closed-up piers, sat another small eatery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Till the Butchers Cut Him Down]

This is marked by the arrow - the cement filling of the closed-up opening - which we can see in another picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Appendix 2 - The "reburying" controversy] Reference

My son knows some of it, but he knows it in his own peculiar way, in some closed-up closed-down corner of his mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black and Blue]

Any great nation would worry at closed-up shops and a professional governing class that doesn't have a clue what to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is 'Octomom' America's Future?] Reference

They looked like people, some better-looking than others, some with pleasant faces and some with closed-up, cranky ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirit Gate] Reference

Could a closed-up teenager survive the assaults of the world alone?.    From Wordnik.com.  [theleafchronicle.com - Local News] Reference

With it all she seemed to be mysterious, like her quiet closed-up house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Other Side of the Door] Reference

During cold winter weather, CO gas can build up quickly inside closed-up homes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cincinnati Local News Headlines | WCPO.com] Reference

Stories of his showing himself a man come out of that closed-up city every week.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Letters of Walter H Page]

When profits were down over the past year, some closed-up shop, but not Jordan Essentials.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

They are hideously ugly, reminding one more of a miniature, closed-up umbrella than an animal!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Side of Animals] Reference

I can imagine all sorts of curious and wonderful things about a closed-up house called 'Curlew's Nest'!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon's Secret] Reference

The owner of the waggons stood waiting near the closed-up foremost one, the yellow-haired child on his arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dop Doctor] Reference

When the brig came to a closed-up pass she acted as a battering ram, and ran at full steam against the obstacle, which she sunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras] Reference

There wasn't any station at Ridgeboro, but the sheriffs looked all around the closed-up store, in the wood-shed and under the platform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels] Reference

The speech was stopped by a report, deafening in the closed-up space; and Captain Benson fell heavily, his pistol rattling on the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea] Reference

Three or four young men and boys were sorting and folding newspapers at a counter that stood on trestles before the closed-up bookstall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christian A Story] Reference