Murgo women are kept closely confined and are never seen in public - not even the youngest female children.

Those half-dozen rooms in the first basement were where women who could channel were held if not to be closely confined.

I was afterwards closely confined in a chamber, for having endeavoured to corrupt the King's officers, and was guarded with greater caution.

It must be closely confined.

I was closely confined in two boxes but far from absolute retirement.

He was largely unacquainted with abstract thought and was content to have his small world closely confined by tradition and custom.

However closely confined, he seemed now rather to be floating.

Upright, though as closely confined as a statue by its mold, one felt somehow free and on guard.

They said they found hens were closely confined, sometimes spattered with manure and sickly.

For forty-six days before his trial he had been closely confined in a dungeon, without lights, books or writing materials.