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Sentences starting with near

Near the houses were cattle standing breast high in the water, perfectly impassive. [5]
Near at hand were a cow and a calf and several yearlings, and farther out in the sage some straggling steers. [13]
Near the spot we sailed from, the Holy Family dwelt when they sojourned in Egypt till Herod should complete his slaughter of the innocents. [5]
Near the shore we found "Cook's Monument"--only a cocoanut stump, four feet high and about a foot in diameter at the butt. [5]
Near as he was to her now, he very often saw her in his mind's eye as she passed over Ridley Common, looking towards him, her eyes shaded by her hand. [11]
Near the box was a pile of bank notes and a piece of paper covered with figured in pencil. [5]
Near as they walked, it was with difficulty they could see each other. [5]
Near to this vast dark cavity was a hut--a mere playhouse, it seemed, so small was it, viewed from where we stood. [11]
Near it were two human figures. [11]
Near by the Tour de Rozel shall I be watching and awaiting thee. [11]

Sentences ending with near

Once he staggered with dizziness, then he righted himself and smiled at some one near. [11]
But, if you will that migraine to be far away, it will fly, and then I shall be near. [11]
Anxiety and suspense were expressed in every face: Amasis' last hour was drawing very near. [10]
Just as they were about to enter the office, however, Jonas Billings, who had a faculty for being everywhere at the interesting moment, said, so as to be heard by Mazarine and his lawyer, and all others standing near. [11]
Though long the weary way we tread, And sorrow crown each lingering year, No path we shun, no darkness dread, Our hearts still whispering, Thou art near! [6]
No one else was near. [11]
At last the voice was very near. [11]
When drooping pleasure turns to grief, And trembling faith is changed to fear, The murmuring wind, the quivering leaf Shall softly tell us, Thou art near! [6]
When his imagination tortured him with fancies that mice and beetles were leaping and running out of his pockets and the breast of his doublet, he thought that his end was drawing near. [10]
It was marvellous to see the influence he exercised over this fierce spirit, and how calm--nay even cheerful--Cambyses became, when the Athenian was near. [10]

Short sentences using near

How near to you? [7]
How near were you? [5]
Everybody near him was sleeping. [2]
It is near to-morrow; come. [11]
I came near to dying. [5]
He was near to crying. [5]
Were we near the fort? [9]
He's overdue near that. [11]
He saw her standing near. [11]
There was no one near. [2]

Sentences containing near two or more times

Arrived in New York he took lodgings near old Washington Square, where there were a few studios near the Bohemian restaurants and a life as nearly continental as was possible in a new country. [11]
The other night when you were telling me your little story, you were near sending yourself into eternity--as near as I am knocking this ash off my cigar. [11]
Herdegen she sent to the other end of the table to sit near his uncle, and Ursula far from him near the middle; to the end that it might be clearly seen that she knew naught of any alliance between that damsel and her nephew. [10]
And presently, near to a lake, there was a great gateway, and perched upon a rock near it a chateau of divine proportions, on which was written above the perfect doorway: "The Keeper of the House awaits thee. [11]
It was as though the infinite had drawn near to the man, or else that the man had drawn near to the infinite. [11]
The population of the United Kingdom in 1876 was estimated at near thirty-four millions; in the last few decades the decennial increase had been considerably over two millions; at that rate the population in 1900 would be near forty millions. [4]
Towards sunset of the third day, when the young gentlemen thought they ought to be near the town of Magnolia, near which they had been directed to find the engineers' camp, they descried a log house and drew up before it to enquire the way. [5]
He had blindly struggled on to die near her, near where she was, she was so pitiful and good. [11]
They had no sooner taken their places than, from a little side door near the vestry, there entered the Seigneur Duvarney and Alixe, who, coming down slowly, took places very near the chancel steps. [11]
The white man's skiff was near the derelict canoe; the bridge was near also. [11]

More example sentences with the word near in them

Pyrrhus and his youngest son were just pushing a boat into the water to release from the sands another which had run aground in a shallow near the neighbouring island. [10]
This one, a young soldier, his face deadly pale, his shako pushed back, and his musket resting on the ground, still stood near the pit at the spot from which he had fired. [2]
When he came, you were for tying him up in one little corner of this island--the hottest part, I know, near to Kingston, where it averages ninety degrees in the shade at any time of the year. [11]
As long as you travel with us, keep as near me as you can. [12]
I will await you near the little temple of Isis with our travelling chariot and my own horses, will receive Irene, and conduct her to some new refuge while you drive back Fuergetes' chariot, and restore it to the driver. [10]
My Lord Leicester, you have lived in the circle of her good pleasure, near to her noble Majesty, as you say, for half a lifetime. [11]
Eva, the beautiful yet perverse woman, was one of the last persons whom he would have desired to have near him when he took the step into the other world. [10]
After being five years at the Port School, the time drew near when I was to enter college. [6]
Henceforth, whenever the yearning for the distant John seized upon her with special power, she thought of that night, and loaded the little sons near her with tokens of the tenderest love. [10]
Arrianus had even written these verses on the gigantic sphinx near the Pyramids. [10]
So Clara is writing a Florence friend to take a look round among the villas for us in the regions near that city. [5]
Phanes had been wounded and went to his tent; Aristomachus lay near him, dying. [10]
I suppose she wouldn't have looked at a fellah like me,--he said,--but I come pretty near tryin'. [6]
No, the drawing-room would not quite do, though it was near the perfect thing. [11]
Such an event would no longer have been possible so near the city. [10]
Tom and I would have preferred to sleep in the woods near by, with our feet to the blaze; this was partly from motives of economy, and partly because Tom, in common with other pioneers, held an inn in contempt. [9]
Whether Dudley Veneer would ever find a breathing image near enough to his ideal one, to fill the desolate chamber of his heart, or not, was very doubtful. [6]
Oh, if misfortune would draw her again as near to him as during the early months of their married life and directly before it, he could rise from his depression with fresh vigour and transform the battle, now half lost, into victory. [10]
How beautiful the world is to an invalid, whose senses are all clarified, who has been so near the world of spirits that she is sensitive to the finest influences, and whose frame responds with a thrill to the subtlest ministrations of soothing nature. [5]
Son of the working-people as he was, Beaton had never cared anything about such matters; he did not know about them or wish to know; he was perhaps too near them. [8]
It isn't the 'work exactly, but the oversight, the details; and the fact is that I want somebody near me whom I can trust, whether I'm here or whether I'm away. [4]
As the month wore on, and the time drew near for him to go back to the war, a state that was not quite estrangement, and yet something very like it, set in. [9]
So the summer wore away, while we lived from hand to mouth on such scanty fare as the two of them shot and what we could venture to gather in the unkempt fields near the gates. [9]
These had sent word that De la Foret was now attached to the meagre suite of the widow of the great Camisard Montgomery, near the Castle of Mont Orgueil. [11]
The gentlemen were wont to dine at the Coffee House, and I would sit near the foot of the table, taking notes of their plans. [9]
But the old woman's struggle between the duty that kept her near the fire and the love that drew her away from it was not of long duration. [10]
She is a woman who likes to drive very near the edge. [4]
Soon the fat woman who has a fruit-stand at the gate is sure to come waddling along, her beaming face making a sort of illumination in the autumn scenery, and sit down near me. [4]
When yonder sick woman seemed to be drawing near her end she asked for the sacrament, which was administered by the Dominican. [10]
It was not without its natural influence upon him; but he regarded it most as a comfortable advertisement, and he lamented every day that this never- failing gas well was not near a large population, and he still its owner. [11]
Our houses are within a stone's throw, and yet in a whole day, from noon till noon, so old a friend could not find a few minutes to deliver the letters entrusted to him, or to call upon such near neighbors . [10]
If she is with the right man, near or far is nothing. [11]
Leicester was riding with the Knights Tilters, and as they cantered lightly past the dais, trailing their spears in obeisance, Elizabeth engaged herself in talk with Cecil, who was standing near, and appeared not to see the favourite. [11]
He came up with the floating flowers, and near enough to reach them. [6]
His recent interview with the Doctor, certain remarks which had been dropped in his hearing, but above all an unaccountable impression upon his spirits, all combined to fill his mind with a foreboding conviction that he was very near some overshadowing danger. [6]
She was astir with the birds of a morning, and near the last to retire at night, and happy as the days were long. [9]
She was sitting with Phanes in a shady arbor near the cooling spray of a fountain. [10]
Perhaps Benjamin Franklin, with our facilities, would have been very near the ideal editor. [4]
Nicholas dismounted, and with Natasha and Petya, who had ridden up, stopped near the hounds, waiting to see how the matter would end. [2]
I look forward with longing to the time when I can lay aside the cares of office--" ["dam sight," shouted a tipsy fellow near the door. [5]
The pony looked with great attention into a fire-plug which was near him, and appeared to be quite absorbed in contemplating it. [12]
As Iberville stood with Frontenac near the palace of the Intendant, watching, he saw the enemy suddenly hurry forward. [11]
Alma was left with Beaton near the piano, and he began to talk about the Dryfooses as he sat down on the piano-stool. [8]
The man said, with as near a grin as he ever got, that the marster was gone to Mrs. Cornelys's assembly. [9]
I became familiar with all the intrigues, the designs of the Bonapartes; and what I did not know was told me by Prince Pierre, who was near my own age, and who used me always more like a friend than a servant. [11]
Chauncey drew near with a strut. [9]
I drew near with a kind of fear, but yet I came to the door and looked in. [11]
You no doubt wished to see the progress of the fire from a spot near it, and in fact the colors down there are magnificent. [10]
She did not wish to speak with him now, nor to be near him yet; she wanted this day for herself only. [11]
And they are wise: the snow comes early, and, besides, a cruel fog, cold as the grave and penetrating as remorse, comes down out of the near Tyrol. [4]
The old political wire-pullers never go near the man they want to gain, if they can help it; they find out who his intimates and managers are, and work through them. [6]
She sat near Wilson, and looked her friendliest. [5]
What was gold will still be a rusted gold, but near to the earth-the stubble of the corn now lying in vast garners by the railway lines, awaiting transport east and west and south and across the seas. [11]
This much I will say to soothe away my own compunctions, that the book will only make the bid for popularity or consideration with near a score of others, and not separately, and that my responsibility is thus modified. [11]
I fear it will now be difficult to arrange, as it is so near the marriage-day. [14]
All the boats will be gone before they can get near one. [9]
If Abersfeld the wildest freebooter of all the plundering nobles far or near were to seize her? [10]
His loving old wife sat near by, contentedly knitting and thinking, with a cat asleep in her lap. [5]
He was a widower, with lads somewhere near my own age, and I recall being shown about the place by them. [9]
All Nature was wide awake and stirring, now; long lances of sunlight pierced down through the dense foliage far and near, and a few butterflies came fluttering upon the scene. [5]
Perhaps that was why he had lived so near the person of the Prince, had held office so long. [11]
The dark shape, whose incessant motion could be clearly perceived whenever the starlight broke through the clouds, appeared first near the city of the dead and the strangers' quarter. [10]
The great Destroyer, whose awful shadow it was that had silenced me, came near me,--but never, so as to be distinctly seen and remembered, during my tender years. [6]
Still, she for whom he waited was surely smaller than the woman, who now came near to him. [10]
There were some who scattered as he drew near, and of the less timorous spirits that remained only a few raised dark, sullen glances to encounter his, which was unflinching, passionately contemptuous. [9]
Mr. Jervas Bellamy, who laid dead with his son, the lieutenant, hand in hand, near the southernmost wall of the prison. [5]
The two servants, who had kept near them, knit their hands together, and thus carried her in advance of the princess. [10]
The privileged few who followed the coffin into the mausoleum remained sometime, but the King soon came out and stood in the door and near one side of it. [5]
My Lord March, who did me the honour to lay one hundred pounds upon my skill, insisted that I should make one of a party to the famous amphitheatre near Lambeth. [9]
But every one who could have directed them on their way had fled before them, so they had kept too far northward and wandered near the fortress of Thabne. [10]
She ordered everybody who came near her to explain what had happened, thus detaining her granddaughter Helena, who was trying to save the most valuable articles in the dwelling. [10]
I recollect that while I was speaking a drum went by the church, and how I was disgusted to see all the heads near the windows thrust out of them, as if the building were on fire. [6]
The last camp which we fell back upon was in a hollow near the village of Florida, where I was born--in Monroe County. [5]
The solitary lamp, which was fixed on a high stand near his chair, shed a scanty light, which, however, sufficed to show him his trusted friend Pentaur, who had disturbed Nebsecht in his prohibited occupations. [10]
The subject from which the book just mentioned derived its title lay near to his heart. [4]
It was one which I had rented from Howard Ogilvy, and it stood on the corner of Baker and Clinton streets, near that fashionable neighbourhood called "the Heights. [9]
During several weeks which he passed at Nahant, a seaside resort near Boston, I saw him almost daily. [6]
For the quarrel which came near being a civil war, which convulsed the state, and cost Barneveld his head, had its origin in a difference on certain points, and more especially on a single point, of religious doctrine. [6]
To the right, where the Kaluga road turns near Neskuchny, endless rows of troops and carts stretched away into the distance. [2]
She knew that where he had been she could in one sense never go, and yet she wanted to be near him just the same. [11]
But one morning, when I was-' 'Was near a keyhole? [12]
Please ascertain fully what was done, and what is the present condition, as near as you can, and advise me at once. [7]
Only half conscious what she was doing, she left the boat; but her slender foot had scarcely touched the land when a tall figure emerged from the thicket near the shore and approached her through the darkness. [10]
If, as Barry Whalen suggested, one of those ugly turns should come, which illnesses take in camp, and she should die without a friend near her, without Rudyard by her side! [11]
Of course, Mr. Wetmore's spoken to him about you, and it's a shame that he hasn't been near us. [8]
Here in the West you are near the centre of a vast empire, you feel its mighty pulse, the throb and heartbeat of its immense and growing strength. [4]
Some households there were, indeed, which maintained a precarious though seemingly miraculous footing on the surface, or near it, going under for mere brief periods, only to rise again and flaunt men-servants in the face of Providence. [9]
And then there were the draughty opera-houses with the sylvan scenery pushed back and plush chairs and sofas pushed forward; with an ominous table, a pitcher of water on it and a glass, near the footlights. [9]
Yes, most Frenchmen were soldiers; and admirable runners, too, both by practice and inheritance; they had done next to nothing but run for near a century. [5]
The innumerable lights were so near and yet so far: it was a kink of the brain, but she seemed withdrawn from them, not they from her. [11]
Stephanus and Paulus were silent, and yet a tacit intercourse subsisted between them as they sat gazing towards the west, where the sun was near its setting. [10]
The pilot's eyes were riveted on the channel--and yet, as morning drew near, from time to time there was a twinkle, a flash behind the reed-beds on the eastern bank, and now and then there was a rustling and clatter there. [10]
Tibet and Persia were not too far, and France was not too near to prevent the incalculably smooth working of a striking and far-reaching political move. [11]
The other pirates were looking their last, too; and they all looked so long that they came near letting the current drift them out of the range of the island. [5]
But darker hours were in the order of nature very near at hand. [6]
Perhaps some deer were feeding there, for it was no unusual thing, when we rose in the morning, to hear the whistle of a startled doe near our camping ground. [9]
When the armies were encamped near each other at Raza and Argish, Rodoll cut off the heads of parties he captured going to the Turkish camp, and threw them into the enemy's trenches. [4]
Presently, as he went, he saw a stone well near a cottage by the roadside. [11]
Swaying as she went, Fleda half-blindly moved towards a chair near by and sank into it. [11]
Yet as he went towards his own home now, he recalled the day they were married, and for the first time had drawn as near to each other as life could draw. [11]

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