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Sentences starting with nearer

Nearer the stockade, where the keepers of the fort might venture out at times, a more orderly growth met the eye. [9]
Nearer and nearer to Rostov came that sun shedding beams of mild and majestic light around, and already he felt himself enveloped in those beams, he heard his voice, that kindly, calm, and majestic voice that was yet so simple! [2]
Nearer and nearer they came. [11]
Nearer and nearer the thing came, till its long sides began to glow with spots of light which mirrored themselves in the river and attended the monster like a torchlight procession. [5]
Nearer still, from the heights, there was the same strange scintillation; the great promontory had a coronet of stars. [11]
Nearer and nearer the frightened animal came; the shout of those who led the horse was in his ears: "Lie close and still, O brothers of giants! [11]
Nearer and nearer the boat of prisoners approached the stone steps of the landing, and we were several hundred yards behind. [11]
Nearer and nearer she came. [11]
Nearer and nearer... now she was ahead of it; but the wolf turned its head to face her, and instead of putting on speed as she usually did Milka suddenly raised her tail and stiffened her forelegs. [2]
Nearer by, they never get anybody's. [5]

Sentences ending with nearer

Without suspecting what was passing in her mind, Hosea drew nearer. [10]
The Bridgwater Merchant was high in the water, and her shot at first did little damage to the Maid of Provence, which, having the advantage of the wind, came nearer and nearer. [11]
All at once, Virginia felt her partner gathering up his strength, and by some compelling force, more of wild than of muscle, draw her nearer. [9]
His heart throbbed violently as, full of anxious expectation, he obeyed her signal to draw nearer. [10]
They were coming towards the doorway, nearer and nearer. [11]
Sooner or later, then, Jane heard the cracking of horses' hoofs on the stones, and the sound came nearer and nearer. [13]
He called himself the victim of a cruel, inexorable fate, and felt like a bunted animal driven to its last gasp and hearing the dogs and sportsmen fast coming nearer. [10]
Harrik held up the torch and came nearer. [11]
The baying of the hounds was nearer. [4]
Here she watched the fleet draw nearer and nearer. [11]

Short sentences using nearer

She drew nearer to him. [2]
Rolfe drew nearer to her. [9]
He came nearer to her. [11]
It is nearer the register. [5]
She came a step nearer. [11]
He came a step nearer. [11]
The buggy wheels sounded nearer. [11]
No, it was nearer. [9]
That way is nearer. [2]
The voices came nearer. [11]

Sentences containing nearer two or more times

Nearer, and nearer yet--and then I heard my name called. [9]
A flock of wild mountain goats, accustomed to come at this hour to quench their thirst at the spring, came nearer and nearer, but drew back as they detected the presence of a human being. [10]
He and Pierre were borne along lightly and joyously, nearer and nearer to their goal. [2]
Each day the walls of this cage grew narrower and narrower, each day they pressed nearer and nearer to the unfortunate prisoner, until in despair he died and the dungeon became his coffin. [10]
It was the tramp of a single steed, and must be a new arrival; for there were loud voices in the tents, the dogs barked, and shouts, questions, and answers came nearer and nearer with the rider. [10]
Answering, she called too, the viens ici of kindred things; and they came nearer and nearer and nearer, until at last their two voices were one. [11]
Then both clinging to the upturned canoe as it is driven nearer and nearer shore.... [11]
She came nearer to me, and nearer, and already I had tried to take her hand, when she ducked under like a swan. [10]
His eyes with their reddish glow burned nearer and nearer to her. [11]
She listened with the tension of terror to the sound of the steps which came straight towards her nearer and nearer, then the wanderer perceived the faint gleam of her white dress, and called out to her. [10]

More example sentences with the word nearer in them

Without heeding the young Burgrave Eitelfritz or Sir Boemund Altrosen, who were just approaching her, she forced her way nearer to her father, He still maintained his self-control, but already the veins on his brow had swollen and his short figure was rigidly erect. [10]
The poor creature would disappear in the water in terror; but he must breathe, and out would come his nose again, nearer the dog each time. [4]
I knew someone would be there--it is nearer the world. [11]
The game then would be another step nearer the end. [11]
There was a worthless vine that (or who) started up about midway between a grape-trellis and a row of bean-poles, some three feet from each, but a little nearer the trellis. [4]
Can't marry a woman now-a-days till you're so deaf you have to cock your head like a parrot to hear what she says, and so longsighted you can't see what she looks like nearer than arm's-length. [6]
It left her with a renewed sense of energy and restlessness, brought her nearer to high discoveries of mysterious joys which a voice out of the past called upon her to forego, a voice somehow identified with her father! [9]
The advice seemed wise--at least he tried to persuade himself that it was--because it promised honor and fame, but in reality he wished to follow it because it would bring her for whom his soul yearned nearer to him. [10]
A bright pupil will learn to get the outline of a human figure in ten lessons, the model coming five hundred feet nearer each time. [6]
The Greek Plutarch, who lived much nearer the period of our heroine than Dio, estimated her more justly than most of the Roman historians. [10]
Some kind friend, who could challenge a nearer interest than the curious strangers into whose hands the book might fall, at last claimed it, and I was glad that it should be henceforth sealed to common eyes. [6]
Had this love which had come to her brought her any nearer to the unknown realm of light she craved?... [9]
We shall see whether he cannot attach you to himself or find a place for you somewhere nearer the sun. [2]
At any rate when he at length went away from Hawkeye he was no nearer it. [5]
They knew they were getting nearer to him than they had ever done; even Cloud-in-the-Sky appreciated that. [11]
But their prayers were brief, for the tumult came nearer and nearer; Apollodorus wrung his hands, and struck his fist against his forehead; his movements were violent--spasmodic. [10]
The nearer they went to the market-place, which they must cross, the more crowded were the streets. [10]
Exclusive of the water line, you are now nearer to Richmond than the enemy is, by the route that you can and he must take. [7]
So, perhaps, it was with the old man who watched the sleigh in the distance coming nearer, but that in his nature on which any one could feed was not so easily reached as the fresh young grass under the protecting snow. [11]
The nearer she was to Charley, the farther away from him, to her mind, was Portugais, and she became magnanimous. [11]
Although the month was March, it was one of those wonderful still nights that sometimes come in the mountain-country when the wind is silent in the notches and the stars seem to burn nearer to the earth. [9]
The Nebraska-Kansas Bill was introduced four years and a half ago, and if the agitation is ever to come to an end we may say we are four years and a half nearer the end. [7]
I heard a voice shouting far down the street, and soon it came nearer, and I caught the words: "Joan of Arc has relapsed! [5]
Presently, as the Victoire came nearer to the coast, he could see a bay and a great rock in the distance, and, as they bore in now, the rock seemed to stretch out like a vast wall into the gulf. [11]
Down swept that vast horse-shoe wave--it approached the sand-belt--my breath stood still; nearer, nearer--the strip of green turf beyond the yellow belt grew narrow--narrower still--became a mere ribbon in front of the horses--then disappeared under their hoofs. [5]
A solemn and utter silence surrounded him, and when the eagle swooped down and vanished from his sight, and the mist rolled lower into the valley, he felt that here, alone, he was high above all other living beings, and standing nearer to the Divinity. [10]
France can teach us how to levy village and city taxes which distribute the burden with a nearer approach to perfect fairness than is the case in any other land; and she can teach us the wisest and surest system of collecting them that exists. [5]
My last attempt upon Richmond was to get McClellan, when he was nearer there than the enemy was, to run in ahead of him. [7]
Every minute the University boat was getting nearer the other. [6]
It was, however, tried sorely when Fleda came to consciousness again in his arms and realized that a man's face was nearer to hers than any man's had ever been except that of her own father. [11]
Three hundred persons took their seats in the dining room, according to their rank and importance: the more important nearer to the honored guest, as naturally as water flows deepest where the land lies lowest. [2]
Now go, and to-morrow come again to me your friend who understands how to sympathize with all you feel, and to whom you have approached so much the nearer to-day that you have learned to share his purest happiness. [10]
It is nearer to us than Liberia not much more than one fourth as far as Liberia, and within seven days' run by steamers. [7]
Women are nearer to the heart of things. [11]
You come nearer to the great fathers of modern medicine than some of you imagine. [3]
Involuntarily listening now to the firing, which had drawn nearer and was increasing in strength, Alpatych hurried to his inn. [2]
Mr. Crewe continued to tap the trees, but drew a little nearer the carriage. [9]
Had his willingness to take up this work again been because it brought him nearer to her in spirit? [4]
However, I had to smile at my own forgetfulness when I got nearer and read this sign on his tabard: "Persimmon's Soap -- All the Prime-Donna Use It. [5]
Dicky never failed to show illusive interest, and both knew that they were not deceiving the other, and both came nearer to the issue by devious processes, as though these processes were inevitable. [11]
It was beginning to put on a threatening aspect; it was tired of standing, tired of the scorching heat; and the thunder was coming nearer, the lightning was flashing brighter. [5]
She seems nearer to him than anybody. [6]
Now he hoped to find himself somewhat nearer to the fulfilment of his wishes. [10]
Besides, I have to deal with one of those by no means rare cases, where poetry can approach nearer the truth than prudent, watchful prose. [10]
The nuns were to be pulled up by the roots, so to say, on the day specified, and without postponement, and to be transferred to a house prepared for them at Massa, a few miles down the promontory, and several hundred feet nearer heaven. [4]
The nearer the time came for Petya to return, the more uneasy grew the countess. [2]
Xavier had the tiller now, and the men were straining at the oars to send the boat across the current towards the nearer western shore. [9]
At first he thought it might be Rosalie, but as he came nearer he saw it was not. [11]
I cannot but think that Judas Iscariot has been of great service to the world as a sort of buffer for moral indignation which might have made a collision nearer home but for his utilized treachery. [4]
As soon as they saw him their talking and laughing ceased, and they stopped and stood still, gazing at him with strong curiosity; they presently began to whisper together, then they approached nearer, and stopped again to gaze and whisper. [5]
Besides, you will thereby ascend a long row of steps nearer to your sublime goal. [10]
Recognizing the fact, then, that we have learned nothing but the machinery of life, and are no nearer to its essence, what is it that we have gained by this great discovery of the cell formation and function? [3]
Every step brought them nearer to it. [10]
They were having their way with him; and, perhaps, in this very complexity of his feelings he came nearer to being really and acutely himself than he had ever been in his life. [11]
The birth of the twins had brought something new into his life, which drew him nearer to Isabella. [10]
As Melitta and the stranger came nearer she thrust her little head through the roses to hear what the handsome youth was saying so kindly in his broken Greek. [10]
Perhaps it is the sentimental regret with which one always leaves the east, for we have been a thousand miles nearer Ireland than Boston is. [4]
The words from the scare-column of the paper he held smote his sight: "War Inevitable--Transvaal Bristling with Guns and Loaded to the Nozzle with War Stores--Milner and Kruger No Nearer a Settlement-- Sullen and Contemptuous Treatment of British Outlander. [11]
The rattle of the sabots came nearer, the footsteps were now in front of the window. [11]
It also has the recommendation of being nearer to the sea than its sister mountain. [4]
I am nearer the real stuff. [11]
To this day the railroad has not reached Coniston Village--nay, nor Coniston Flat, four miles nearer Brampton. [9]
Thirty was nearer the price, but what did it matter. [9]
In spite of the old woman's earnest advice not to mix in the crowd, she had pushed her way through, and, as the men-at-arms dispersed the mob, she came nearer to her favorite but too reckless brother. [10]
Then M. Dauphin, the Notary, who had joined the crowd, held out a hand coaxingly, and with insinuating rhetoric drew a little nearer than the landlord had done; but he retreated precipitously as the hound crouched back for a spring. [11]
On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. [6]
I contributed to the nearer one, and passed out. [5]
And you know the more you join in with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you. [5]
The vanguard of the mob, thrust on by increasing pressure from behind, tumbled backward the thin cordon of police, drew nearer and nearer the bayonets, while the soldiers grimly held their ground. [9]
But presently, as the light grew, I heard shouts which drew nearer and deeper and brought me to my feet in an uncertainty of expectation. [9]
She turned from the house and came nearer to the lake, shaking her head, as though compassionating the poor, folk who lived there. [11]
There too was the history, coming much nearer home, of Deborah Sampson, the young woman who served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, with a portrait of her in man's attire, looking intrepid rather than lovely. [6]
They crawled nearer the gate, still hidden in the shadows and the grass. [11]
I'll go down the garden, through the bushes," he said.... "Mother, I've got nearer you to-night than in all the rest of my life. [11]
He realized for the first time that he had been nearer annihilation then than to-day. [9]
First there was the fact that Rudyard did not know, and might strongly disapprove; and secondly, somehow, she had got nearer to Stafford in the last few minutes than in all the previous hours since they had met again. [11]
A little nearer the door, Abel, the Doctor's man, and Elbridge, who drove them to church in the family-coach. [6]
The noise of the crowd was hushed, and they drew nearer to hear. [9]
The outlines of the coast grew plainer as the Hardi Biaou drew nearer and nearer. [11]
As soon as the captain's limping steps died away on the stairs, Wolf summoned all his courage and moved nearer to Barbara. [10]
The sound of the buggy wheels came still nearer. [11]
The agony was the breathing space we had while they crept nearer. [9]
I almost fear that--that we get no nearer. [11]
I don't see that we are getting any nearer the solution of the original question. [4]
The Saturnians boast that they have no paupers, no thieves, none of those fictitious values called money,--all which things, they hear, are known in that small Saturn nearer the sun than the great planet which is their dwelling-place. [6]
Needless to add that they did not wholly agree, but they were much nearer to agreement than one would have thought possible. [9]
And I trust that in the future we shall grow into the mutual respect and affection which our nearer relationship will demand. [9]
I hoped also that I should come into personal relations with my old constituency, if I may call my nearer friends, and those more distant ones who belong to my reading parish, by that name. [6]
A deal nearer than I should care to get. [9]
It comes nearer than any empire in history to being self-sufficient, physically independent of the rest of the globe. [4]
The B's have taken a back seat, the C's have moved up nearer the pulpit. [4]
He pushed the table nearer the window, and the singing of the choir in the church came in upon him as his pen seemed to etch words into the paper, firm, eccentric, meaning. [11]
He has some swells up at his house to hear his speech on national affairs, among them old Flint's daughter, who is a ripper to look at, although I never got nearer to her than across the street. [9]
Some vague apprehension succeeded, and, yielding to the strong inclination it awakened, she drew nearer to the place; not advancing across the open field, however, but creeping towards it by the hedge. [12]
There are many subjects on which both of us like to talk with him, and it would be convenient to have him nearer to us. [6]
Even as I strained, the tones drew nearer, and they were mixed with sweeter ones I knew well, and Dorothy's mother's voice. [9]
I wish you stood nearer to me; but Rameses will not part with you, although--although--In point of fact your office has two aspects; it requires the daring of a soldier, and the dexterity of a scribe. [10]
Perhaps she was still nearer to his heart than Irene, and if gratitude drew him to her with fresh force then--aye then--he might perhaps woo her, and forget his pride and her lowly position, and ask her to be his wife. [10]
She came a step nearer, and peered into Al'mah's face, as though to read her inmost mind, as though to see if what she said was really true. [11]
She took a step nearer, and a cry escaped her. [9]

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