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Sentences starting with nearest

Nearest of all to the commander in chief walked a handsome adjutant. [2]

Sentences ending with nearest

Freely and boldly he looked his enemies in the face, stretched the young limbs hardened by many a knightly exercise, and with a true Netherland oath sprang upon Adrian Van der Werff, who stood nearest. [10]

Short sentences using nearest

That's my nearest way. [11]
Yes, that was nearest it. [9]

More example sentences with the word nearest in them

Not even those who stand nearest to me would understand me in the noise of battle. [10]
At a moment when all was quiet before the commencement of a song, a door leading to the stalls on the side nearest the Rostovs' box creaked, and the steps of a belated arrival were heard. [2]
The loss of what we possess nearest and dearest to us in this world, produces an effect upon the character we search out what we have yet left that can support, and, when found, we cling to it with a hold of new-strung tenacity. [14]
To the average Western mind it is the nearest approach to a Torricellian vacuum of intelligibility that language can pump out of itself. [6]
The two nearest were half a mile from each other, and half that distance from my residence. [3]
He had a way of talking with people about what they were interested in, as if it were the one matter in the world nearest to his heart. [6]
But his crime was so great that, according to the law of Egypt, his nearest relations were to be seized and punished with him. [10]
The nearest doctor was miles away at Pontiac, and for any man to face the journey was to connive with death. [11]
This little dwelling-place was just outside the village limits, and the widow who lived there had to carry her water from the nearest irrigation ditch. [13]
The nearest garrison was at Kerbat, sixty miles away, where five hundred men were stationed. [11]
Clemens could hardly walk next morning, but they managed to get to North Ashford, where they took a carriage for the nearest railway station. [5]
On reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. [2]
She instituted a vegetable garden there, got it farmed on shares by the nearest neighbor, and made it pay her a hundred per cent. [5]
He felt tempted to throw himself down in the road and sleep, but remembered the frozen people of whom he had heard, and dragged himself on to the nearest village. [10]
The nearest land, to the northwest, is the larger island of Ischia, distant nearly as far as Naples; yet Capri has the effect of being anchored off the bay to guard the entrance. [4]
The man tried to mumble out some words--could not succeed; tried to express something with his obstructed hands--failed; paused a moment, then feebly tilted his head, in a meaning way, toward the corpse that lay nearest him. [5]
The nearest approach to it was a cigar store. [5]
He was nearest to her now of all the world, and he could not suffer the thought of her having the news otherwise. [9]
I I intended to have signalized my first appearance by a certain large statement, which I flatter myself is the nearest approach to a universal formula, of life yet promulgated at this breakfast-table. [6]
Plato comes nearest to being his idol, Shakespeare next. [6]
Publication will have to be made here in one paper, and in one nearest the residence of the applicant. [7]
The property was to be divided among various churches and convents, where masses were to be read for her soul, and her nearest blood relations. [10]
It is nearest to Australia, but still not near. [5]
He was evidently tipsy, and was singing a French song in a hoarse broken voice, with an arm thrown round the nearest soldier. [2]
The soldiers squeezed themselves to make way for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still harder from behind. [2]
That row of them must be the nearest that nature has ever come to counterfeiting a colonnade. [5]
After this conversation the two men who, in different positions, stood nearest to the Emperor Charles, placed no obstacle in Barbara's way. [10]
Not far from the spot where it lay nearest to the river was the bridge of boats connecting Memphis with the island of Rodah. [10]
Basal part of the secondary wing feather, nearest to the body. [1]
The space behind the rear seats was filled with men standing, and those nearest glanced around with annoyance at the interruption of my entrance. [9]
There--the figures nearest the queen are Sir Launcelot with his sword up, and Sir Gareth gasping his latest breath. [5]
He's going to the nearest house, and that's Tralee, as they call it, just here. [11]
His property, like the houses and hovels of his people, was in the strangers' quarter, west of Tanis, and lay nearest to the streets inhabited by the Egyptians themselves. [10]
One adjutant, nearest the door, was sitting at the table in a Persian dressing gown, writing. [2]
In his work the day before he had taken occasion to regret the small recognition his hero had met with among those nearest to him. [10]
As soon as the clerk left the room, a hairy hand reached out for the nearest letter, and a swift glance took in its contents. [11]
If the thought that things looked bad chanced to enter anyone's head, he tried to be as cheerful as befits a good soldier and not to think of the general trend of affairs, but only of the task nearest to hand. [2]
But Granvelle's message that she was one cf those who stood nearest to the abdicating sovereign constantly echoed in her ears, and her absence from this ceremony would have seemed to her unnatural--nay, an offence against something necessary. [10]
This shortening of that part of the limb which is nearest to the body, appears to be, as suggested to me by Mr. Forbes, a case of compensation in relation with the greatly increased length of the trunk. [1]
A secret like that of David and Hylda will do in a day what a score of years could not accomplish, will insinuate confidences which might never be given to the nearest or dearest. [11]
Woe is me, that I have murdered him who, as my nearest kinsman, should have avenged on the Magi this affront to my honor. [10]
We knew some tall men when we were young, but we can see a man taller than any one among them at the nearest dime museum. [6]
I'm going to take the Parson's sermon on Jonah next summer; it's the nearest to anything like news we've had from his pulpit in ten years. [4]
One thing is sure: They are much the most interesting people in the world--and the nearest to being incomprehensible. [5]
When a spying stranger comes dangling about these windows, my men are given to adorning the nearest tree with him. [11]
When you were starving he risked his life--" Torn by anxiety for my friend, I dragged myself into the nearest cabin, and a man was fighting there in the half-light at the port. [9]
And he was standing with his hands behind his back gazing in simple, silent appreciation at the big tapestry nearest the windows. [9]
Were trouble and sorrow so much her portion that to her mind this tragedy, whatever it was, must touch the man nearest to her--and certainly Shiel Crozier was far nearer than Jesse Bulrush. [11]
But it is sorrow and trouble that brings you the nearest, and it was a funeral that done it with us. [5]
She herself, with some especially favoured ones, occupied a box, which was the nearest thing to being on the stage. [9]
They found a small recess in the one nearest the base of the rock, with a pallet of blankets spread down in it; also an old suspender, some bacon rind, and the well-gnawed bones of two or three fowls. [5]
His brother and sisters struggled for the places nearest to him and disputed with one another who should bring him his tea, handkerchief, and pipe. [2]
The nearest soldiers shrank back, the gun driver stopped his horse, but from behind still came the shouts: "Onto the ice, why do you stop? [2]
Behind them came several mailed knights, with the emblems of the deepest mourning on their garments and helmets, and among those nearest to the Emperor Eva perceived--her heart almost stood still--the person whom she had least expected to meet here--Heinz Schorlin. [10]
Regaining my full senses, I struck the man nearest me a blow that sent him sprawling in the dirt. [9]
I think Emily seems the nearest thing to my heart in the world. [14]
Those nearest the scene are all in favor of the extension. [7]
Nemu left the sanctuary to his left, and rode up the steep hill-path which was the nearest way from the plain to the valley of the tombs. [10]
The nearest public road is half a mile away, so there is nobody to look in, and I don't have to wear clothes if I don't want to. [5]
Our own nearest relation in the ascending line remembers the Revolution well. [6]
Whichever way you regard it, it is the nearest insoluble. [4]
He had no real near neighbors--livin' a little out of town--but those who was nearest said a wagon had gone by in the night, an' they though it stopped at her door. [13]
Meanwhile Kutuzov had reached the village and seated himself in the shade of the nearest house, on a bench which one Cossack had run to fetch and another had hastily covered with a rug. [2]
Ilium was the railway station nearest to the tract of wild land which Mr. Bolton had commissioned him to examine. [5]
This was less quickly accomplished than he had hoped; for one had taken refuge in the nearest cellar, whose opening was too narrow for the men to follow. [10]
So far as public opinion went it could not matter, because we were all living at Tilbar Station in the Tibbooburra country, and the nearest neighbour to us was Mulholland of Nimgi, a hundred miles away. [11]
According to a popular impression, the absence of a tail is eminently distinctive of man; but as those apes which come nearest to him are destitute of this organ, its disappearance does not relate exclusively to man. [1]
He uses the person that is nearest at hand. [5]
It was our part only to show that we, as his nearest and dearest, were foremost in giving. [10]
It suddenly came over him, in fact, that the two persons who in all the world were nearest him were herself and Mr. Bentley! [9]
When one broke out the plan was to form a long line of men, who passed buckets of water between the nearest pump, well, or river, and the burning building. [11]
I have found out his mother's house, and have been directed by her to this place as the nearest in which I should be likely to find him. [12]
The basal spot, or that nearest the shaft, in the five lower rows (excluding the lowest one) is a little larger than the other spots of the same row, and a little more elongated in a transverse direction. [1]
On the nearest one sat a Tartar, probably a Cossack, judging by the uniform thrown down beside him. [2]
Besides, he is one of those nearest to the Emperor Rudolph's person. [10]
Villiard took the one nearest himself. [11]
Dubarre lifted the one nearest himself, and Villiard picked up the other. [11]
The nearest that one can come at it is to say there are two --the composed Northern and the impetuous Southern; and both are found in other countries. [5]
The grove was on a plateau, which was cut on the side nearest the mountain by the line of a gray stone wall, under which the land fell away sharply. [9]
There stood the old woman yet, and in the palm of the nearest one still lay my gold piece. [5]
One of the old men nearest to him looked round, but his attention was immediately diverted by an exclamation at the other side of the table. [2]
You are one of the king's nearest relations too--I tell you, Araspes, you might have twenty young and beautiful wives. [10]
Like the flavour of that choicest of tropical fruits, the mangosteen, it baffles analysis, and the nearest I can come to it is a mixture of matting and corn-bread, with another element too subtle to define. [9]
In the midst of such a storm nothing can be seen a few yards ahead, and the unlucky person who happens to be out at the time is compelled to seek the nearest retreat at hand. [5]
It is worthy of note, too, that among the free States those which make the colored man the nearest equal to the white have proportionably the fewest mulattoes, the least of amalgamation. [7]
To say nothing of my brothers, this war has deprived me of one of the associations nearest my heart. [2]
Even our nearest of kin had laid our concerns on the shelf, while day and night alike it weighed on our souls, and we made ready for a long time to come of want and humble cheer. [10]
Some are disciples of Hahnemann, some have full faith in the mind-cure, some attend the seances where flowers (bought from the nearest florist) are materialized, and some invest their money in Mrs. Howe's Bank of Benevolence. [6]
He saw life now through the lens of personal duty, which required that the thing nearest to one's hand should be done first. [11]
The nearest biographical notice of him in point of time is found in the "History of the Worthies of England," by Thomas Fuller, D.D., London, 1662. [4]
Heinz Schorlin did not notice it, but his follower, Biberli, called his attention to the rising storm and entreated him to choose the nearest road to the city. [10]
The impossible is not expected of man, only that he shall do today the duty nearest to him. [4]
But, Jane, there's no water for fifty miles after I leave here, and the nearest is in the canyon. [13]
But there was no sound, for I was the nearest person to her and I heard nothing. [5]
The widow made no advances, and some time passed in indifferent conversation, till Paaker abruptly informed her that he had heard of her son's reckless conduct, and had decided, as being his mother's nearest relation, to preserve her from the degradation that threatened her. [10]
Working patiently, by night, in my desolated home, I made a disguise for myself out of various odds and ends of clothing; in the nearest village I bought a pair of blue goggles. [5]
Absorbed in the Netherlands, she forgot to notice the nearest things which presented themselves to her gaze. [10]
And yet there need only be a discussion and she has no words of her own but only repeats his sayings..." added Nicholas, yielding to that irresistible inclination which tempts us to judge those nearest and dearest to us. [2]
But Tom was nearest, and words not coming easily to him he fell on the Boonesboro man instead, and they fought it out for ten minutes in the firelight with half the regiment around them. [9]
Well, this comes nearest to being under the cross. [5]

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