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In class, he put his hand up so often and got the wrong answer so frequently that his teachers told him to shut up.
The editor, a man known for his unflappability, ordered Billy to be left alone, in the belief he would eventually shut up.
Just shut up and hand over your money, like a good peasant, and don't forget to tug your forelock.
Often I'd look at some other members and think you're not shy, you're not backward in the same way I am, some of you hardly ever shut up.
I have been there before, Bree, I know how to deal with the pain, he can't hurt me anymore, so shut up and let me take care of this!
Vic suggested that if I got on the radio they'd have great difficulty ever getting me to shut up.
It was join in, or sit on a chair and shut up, whilst the rest of the world played football or went to the Saturday matinee at the local cinema.
When the crowd barracked him and he told them to shut up, the umpire, Bruno Rebeuh, issued a code violation, which really got Tarango going.
As soon as they'd finished singing every word of 'Morning Train', I thought the little toerags would shut up.
I know the people who did it, but I have lost track of what I promised not to reveal publicly, and so will shut up for now.
I'll lay it out my views, trash talk the other side a bit, you know, goad them to answer back, then tell them to shut up when they do.
Just then a guard came down the hall, beating his billy club along the bars of the cells, and yelling for everyone to shut up.
Haberdasher Mary Tinson shut up shop for the last time on Tuesday after 38 years selling fabric and buttons to the people of Chippenham.
This place is losing money and you can only go on doing that for so long before you have to shut up shop.
The statistics show 8,600 farmers shut up shop and 6,600 farm workers left the industry in the 12 months to June this year.
I think that's because the good teams often come here and shut up shop so we have to cope with that.
On Tuesday I should have made some changes and shut up shop, but you learn from these things.
Barry, who will shut up shop at the end of May at the age of 64, said he would carry on singing.
A team of troubleshooters has been called into a York estate where nuisance youths have forced the community centre to shut up shop at night.
If you give to the government the power to shut up those you oppose, you're also giving them the power to shut you up too.
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And in the final chapter, when Lil comes unglued during the reading of Mrs. Gramby's will, Meatus slaps her and tells her to shut up.
Even a warning from the sports minister, who basically told both sides to shut up and sort out the problem pronto, has gone unheeded.
Only when Tiffany shoved a few coins in the machine slot and restarted the aeroplane again did the child shut up.
But, as with pure naturalistic theories of evolution, your task is to shut up and bow to your superiors, not ask obvious questions.
I sure wish those naysaying lefties would just shut up about our so-called failure in the war.
We, the Zapatistas, will not shut up and we will mobilize in support of out brotherly town and companion of Oaxaca.
I glared at the woman, who shut up pretty quickly, then placed my hands on either side of the small circle, muttering the words of a spell.
I should learn to shut up when someone brings up the Big C subject, instead of trying to change the world.
The whole thing is really propelled by your powers of observation and by your ability to shut up and get out of the way.
The real thing I love most about blogging is that I get to talk about ME without someone telling me to shut up whilst I'm in mid flow.
I do not complain when the Montreal crowds start the chants but when it's Toronto I feel that they should really just sit down and shut up.
She's too polite to tell him to shut up and go away, so we put up with him.
I promptly told my mind to shut up and strolled across the floor to the bar, parking myself in a seat.
She is one of those peppy, optimistic, chatterbox types that you can't get to shut up.
Now shut up and get some sleep, Major, or I'm going to have to cold-cock you and drag you to your bunk.
They made love until the tenants of the flatette next door banged on the wall and told them to shut up.
But hey, it's Comic Relief, I should just fork out the cash and shut up moaning.
The 18-year-old volunteered to spend Saturday shut up on a window ledge at the Thomson travel agent shop fronting Devizes High Street.
Having achieved all their prematch aims, Boroughmuir then shut up shop and lost some of their verve and urgency.
A respected international footballer speaking decent Spanish and enjoying life in Madrid should shut up both the snobs and the Europhobes.
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They gave things away, told secrets like a six year old everyone is constantly trying to shut up.
Someone who can, in all deliberateness, actually give forth that depraved statement would do well, truly, to reconsider or shut up.
No, I think actually one of the main things I learned from directing film is that actors should really just shut up.
He says the Select Committee should be given hard evidence, not just rumour, and employers should either put up or shut up.
I want to conclude by challenging the Opposition today to put up or shut up.
Either put up or shut up, there's more than enough real news out there that's more worthy of our attention.
The galleries have shut up shop for refurbishment, re-opening in April next year.
At one point Marie yelled at me to shut up because she wanted them to all come back next week.
It seemed satisfied, at least for the moment, so I coiled the hose, shut up the garage, and went back indoors.
He said that somebody should get the orchestra to shut up, and that everybody should be on deck, manning the lifeboats.
Rachel insisted it was Ailsa's turn, and vice versa, until Rebecca told them to shut up and go downstairs to check the rota.
Roughly 44 percent of 18-to-24-year-olds say they're very likely to tell talkers in movies to shut up.
But they've shut up the madhouse and nobody knows if they're coming or going.
I started to give a tart reply, but Atelious gave a deep inarticulate growl that was felt more than heard, and she shut up.
McDowell could have used all sorts of expletives to tell the offending fans to shut up.
The band of boys cheered and yowled but Eric told them all to shut up.
Look, will you just shut up about the band, for pity's sake?
My friend then intervened with the verbal equivalent of a good slap across the face by saying things like pull yourself together, man! and for God-sake, shut up!
The whole residence was blanketed in a dusty atmosphere that made me sneeze often when the windows were shut up tightly as they were on this particular day.
But of course Marie would not shut up, and the fact that she kept talking to Heinz helped make the book possible.
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Now I saw the canvas awnings pulled down over the armourer's workshop, the storehouses shut up to keep the goods from damp, the great oak doors of the stable closed.
Here I've been shut up in this confounded house for four mortal days!
In the undiplomatic language of my old neighborhood, put up or shut up.
If they know what's good for them, they probably ought to shut up and pray that the court decides to give them a victory just because they don't want the grief.
You can tell a loud yawner to shut up, and she will yawn with more tonal precaution, turning her yawn into a softer, more weightless expulsion of breath.
Sometimes we argue overmuch when what we should do is shut up.
But, he was a very religious man so everyone had to shut up and let him have a job he was abjectly unqualified for because to do otherwise would be theocratically incorrect.
Keats then ran up to the victim, yelled, 'Don't tell my dogs to shut up,' and began shooting at the victim.
Buy two sulphur candles for every room to be fumigated, and, having lit them, shut up all windows and doors, and stuff all crevices in the doors with cotton batting.
Which was sweet and also troubling, because it meant that I have never shut up about wanting to be Peter Pan.
It's high time for all you governments to put up or shut up.
It would come out wrong half the time, and they would tell me to shut up.
But my grandmother, who wore the trousers, used to tell him to shut up and stop talking rubbish, so we never got to ask him exactly how they were related.
But when the hands come up, that means shut up with mindless jive.
The two brothers at the centre of Australia's most infamous gold swindle have today told one of Western Australia's most senior policemen to put up or shut up.
However, telling them they could have shut up and put up is patently unfair.
And God knows, starting back at that tender age where you think you'll never, ever be popular, you'll shut up and pretend to be anyone but your wonky self just to be accepted.
It's no use yelling at her to shut up. God knows I've tried.
I know I've done similar things in the past, so I'll shut up about it.
William barks for them to shut up as he bites into a lamb shank.
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It is worth noting here that Porter's younger brother Fairfield, the painter, once told the ironfisted potentate Clement Greenberg to shut up.
Why think to shut up all things in your narrow coop, when we know there are not one or two only, but ten, twenty, a thousand things, and unlike?
The company decided to shut up shop in this country and move to America, where corporate taxes are lower.
She did not come to Court, but she must have been taken to Montagu's house, for the Clerkenwell house was all shut up and was to be sold.
This phoney war must stop, it is now time for the Government to put up or shut up on helping those being unfairly penalised by banks.
If, on the other hand, you can't get your inner wikiphobe to shut up, then Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody is the book for you.
Nothing would make him shut up until I brought my dogwood stick into his office and witched for water.
Paula not only told her boss that she quit but also told him to shut up. Way to stick it to the man!
Open sheds are too much exposed to drifting snow, and they cannot be shut up and made warm enough for early lambing.
And after too many visiting sides have been happy to shut up shop at Aggborough, Molby suggests Northwich will want to fight fire with fire.
Phil Hobday says he's devastated to shut up shop for good at Hobdays, in Warwick Street.
Office babus are the real rulers of this country now. Our number's up. Best thing we can do is to shut up shop and let 'em stew in their own juice.
I thought John would never shut up. He could talk the legs off a pot.
Q My 14-year-old cat will not shut up and yowls day and night.
Examples from Classical Literature
But I must tell you how the rascals tried to shut up, 'administratively,' you understand, Mlle. Palmyre.
What is the use of a beautiful face, if one must be shut up in her own apartment for ever?
She was shut up in the tolbooth for singing Jacobite songs in the Canongate.
And do you for a moment think I am going to be shut up like a bandicoot in a hole, while others fight for life and liberty?
And they are going down into Bedfordshire, of all places, to be shut up for a month!
The catarrhal fever was a disorder of the spring blood, like new wine close shut up in bottles.
It had a special covering of fitted armor, thin but strong, shut up like a clamshell.
You may imagine what sort of a life danae led, shut up in the brazen tower.
It was a dark lantern, I suppose, for the light was shut up in some way after that.
That dawg was as right as possible when I shut up last night, and he couldn't have got out.
I saw him taken off to the Section and shut up in the church of Saint-Jean.
And because he's given the priest a dressing-down, and broken an image worth a nickel, must he be shut up in a mad-house?
Instantly the girls began a loud hurrah, but the folding chair suddenly shut up, with Julie frantically trying to balance herself.
Captivity was telling upon him, and he was pining as an eagle pines when caught and shut up by man even in a gilded cage.
I suppose being shut up in the house with my sprained ankle makes me spleeny.
It was he, in his inexorableness, close shut up against any appeal or argument, that was the superior now.
But if buildings are shut up early in the morning and opened at night, even the khamsin may be made tolerable.
Why, he'd shut up tighter'n a clam at low water and he'd give you fits besides.
With bolted handcuffs and leg shackles they were shut up in the old Spanish Martello tower.
Often, when starting for a ride or drive, we have been obliged to shut up our meerkat, so determined was he to come with us.
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These mulls are placed in rows and shut up in separate cupboards, to keep in the dust.
The Heathcotes had gone to Rome for the winter, and the Villa was shut up and untenanted.
Pellisson was shut up with a Basque who used to play to him on the musette.
Yer goin' to shut up your desk and your books and this hull consarn inside of an hour, and vamose the ranch.
They are shut up, and Luke Mickleroyd and the other watchmen are in charge.
So they shut up the rivers in the caons and the day of the orchardist began.
And I can assure you that, whenas she goeth abroad, she maketh herself well felt, albeit she abideth for the most part shut up.
He is now shut up in his apartment, whither I heard him go on leaving mine.
Now they have shut up their yawp about him, since he has proved to be no better than Talmage or Beecher.
He went into the house, and must have gone to his room, where the police dog had been shut up for hours in disgrace.
Llewellyn, fearing probably to be shut up and starved out in his fastness, left Snowdon and passed into Radnorshire.
If the use be for carriage, the feet may shut up, like the usual brass feet of a reflecting telescope.
You had better shut up the chamber for at least some weeks, burn fires in it, repaint and paper it, sprinkle chloroform.
Well, aw'll mak a mullock o' thee i' two minnits if tha doesn't shut up!
One bodily function that people just can't seem to shut up about is hiccups.
She traversed her chamber with the excitement of a furious maniac or of a tigress shut up in an iron cage.
Charles shut up the Exchequer, and Gallienus debased the coinage.
That's what it is to be shut up in these villainous ramparts.
And the shareholders and business interests might as well shut up squawking about how much they've been hurt.
Your men are shut up in Circe's pigstyes, like so many wild boars in their lairs.
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But the church is a mere fragment, mutilated, desecrated, shut up.
Razumov saw himself shut up in a fortress, worried, badgered, perhaps ill-used.
Being shut up in the town so long, they had consumed almost all their provisions and burned up all their fuel.
Pepperell consented to shut up his ledger, gird on a sword, and assume the title of general.
But I can't get a divorce while I'm shut up in this house and watched.
Semiramis tried to come in, but was caught and shut up downstairs.
He shut up Margaret's card in the pages of Ruskin, and opened the door.
Loker shut up his mouth, and listened to him with gruff and surly attention.
Yet, a doubt lurks in my mind, Miss Pross, whether it is good for Doctor Manette to have that suppression always shut up within him.
We were shut up in Bhurtee, the regiment of us with half a battery of artillery, a company of Sikhs, and a lot of civilians and women-folk.
As to that, I know not if they be yet on live, sith it is many years that I have lain shut up in the castle.
At Cawnpore, the Mutineers hacked into pieces hundreds of women and children they had shut up in an airless shack.
Tom said this with one eye shut up again, and looking over his glass knowingly, at his entertainer.
He must shut up all tender thoughts, and become an iron man.
He shut up the box and with a bang as an amative couple came into sight.
In the first place I have as a precaution shut up at Rueil, near me, under my own eyes, within reach of my hand, the two most intractable ones.
Three were enticed on board the ship, and were shut up in the cabin.
It was a dreary, silent building, with echoing courtyards, desolated turret-chambers, and whole suites of rooms shut up and mouldering to ruin.
He keeps his grandson shut up, when he isn't riding or walking with his tutor, and makes him study very hard.
Omer, hearing his daughter's footstep before I heard it, touched me with his pipe, and shut up one eye, as a caution.
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With this animal, which he called Pistache, he was often shut up for hours alone, superintending, as every one supposed, its education.
And now the inevitable reductio ad absurdum has been reached with both clubs shut up.
If he could take that he might shut up Bowen and his force in Grand Gulf.
His head was all on one side, and one of his eyes was half shut up, as if he were taking aim at something with an invisible gun.
The brave Matilda, ever faithful, was shut up in impregnable Canossa.
The house was shut up, and the caretaker had mislaid her address.
The two dogs, destined to propagate the canine race on the lunar continents, were already shut up in the projectile.
If I had been shut up in any place to pine and suffer, I should always hate that place and wish to burn it down, or raze it to the ground.
She arrived finally at Woodstock, and was shut up in the palace there.
Or that he did not give her the use of their own instrument which must now be shut up in London, untouched by any body.
She remembered the time when the house was shut up by associating it with the time when she was confined to her bed by an attack of sciatica.
The king, shut up in his own apartment, dispatched his nurse every hour to Mazarin's chamber, with orders to bring him back the exact bulletin of the cardinal's state.
The house is six hundred years old and it's on the edge of the moor, and there's near a hundred rooms in it, though most of them's shut up and locked.
Tell me your history and how you came to be shut up in that vase.
I set out on a riding excursion, for the purpose of geologizing the basal parts of the Andes, which alone at this time of the year are not shut up by the winter snow.
As he shut up his pocketbook, he glanced toward Magdalen doubtfully.
It seemed incredible that a man could outlast half a century shut up in a dark hole like a rat, but here were his old wife and some old comrades to testify to it.
Their horses, which were turned loose to graze during the day, under heedful eyes, were brought in at night, and shut up in strong pens, built of large logs of cotton-wood.
But I can hardly believe that you are serious, for I have fifty, at this moment, shut up in the coops, in every stage of fat, so that you might choose any quality you pleased.
As for Captain Speedy, he was shut up in his cabin under lock and key, and was uttering loud cries, which signified an anger at once pardonable and excessive.
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The author of Sultana's Dream envisions a society in which women are not shut up in zenanas, but rather where men have been convinced to retire to their own kind of seclusion.
