closer

It was easy to see that no doubt now remained in the young girl’s mind as to the reality of the scene; her eyes started with terror, her hands trembled, and she rapidly drew the bedclothes closer to her.

They kept close to the door and closer to one another, for the stillness of the empty room was more dreadful than any of the forms they had seen Oz take.

Every minute that white woolly plain which covered one-half of the moor was drifting closer and closer to the house.

At sight of him Madame de Villefort uttered an expression of pleasure, and, holding the child still closer towards her, she said: