What powerful influence had induced him to close his lips?

"Be that as it may," he said and closed his lips.

My lord Tony had closed her lips with a kiss.

She closed her lips and stood a moment, seeming to swell with power.

Between scene changes, you'd just close your lips as a curtain.

He closed his lips on the questions that rushed to be asked.

She almost added, Wait here, but closed her lips on that inanity just in time.

He closed his lips quickly, went to the door.

The old man's eyes were closed, his lips moving in silent prayer.

The city seemed to close its lips around them and they felt safer again.