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Sentences starting with nearing

Nearing it, I hid the lantern beneath my cloak and made for an outhouse. [11]
Nearing the spot, he brought his step to a deliberate slowness, and appeared not to notice the stately Arab till almost upon him. [11]
Nearing the Farilones, Captain Debney was put off in an open boat. [11]
Nearing the Light-Ship. [5]

Short sentences using nearing

Look, we're nearing the Island. [11]
They were nearing the hospital. [11]

More example sentences with the word nearing in them

My dear father, you are nearing the time-post of ninety years, with great health and cheerfulness; it is my hope you may top the arch of your good and honourable life with a century key-stone. [11]
Both her listeners were sure that they were nearing a thing of deep importance. [11]
But another raid was nearing, a raid upon British territory this time. [11]
Years passed; she was nearing womanhood, the young man was still her friend, but in his mind there had come something deeper. [11]
When the sun was nearing the horizon Hornecht entered the garden. [10]
My goal is undoubtedly the right one, but so soon as I seem to be nearing it, my weakness snatches it from me, as the wind swept back the fruit-laden boughs which Tantalus, parched with thirst, tried to grasp. [10]
He was glad to have come to some conclusion, at any rate provisionally, with regard to these matters, for six days had slipped away since the works had been begun in the palace of Lochias, and Hadrian's arrival was nearing rapidly. [10]
Now in 1812, to anyone living in close touch with these people it was apparent that these undercurrents were acting strongly and nearing an eruption. [2]
Later, when the tide was turning and success was nearing, he was more able to work. [6]
She was nearing thirty, and in spite of her beauty and the rarer distinction that can best be described as breeding, she had never married. [9]
Yet, even on the worst days, he was busy at his place in the piazza, where the cathedral, which he had been building for three years, was nearing completion. [10]
I am nearing the shadow now,--the time of which I can hardly bear to write. [6]
An opening in the pinyons warned him that he was nearing the height of slope. [13]
At last, when the perfumes of the flowers told us we were nearing the garden, she turned to me. [9]
They were nearing the little dock, and men were coming to the point where the launch would stop. [11]
I was nearing the gate again, the dust flying from my moccasined feet, the sight of the stalwart Tom giving me courage again. [9]
Nettlewood Foyle watched the dust rising from the wheels of the stage, which had passed the elevator and was nearing the Prairie Home Hotel far down the street. [11]
The doe saw the boat nearing her. [4]
Upon nearing the summit he halted her with a gesture. [13]
It was late Saturday night nearing eleven. [5]
The noblest material-brown porphyry, emerald-green serpentine, and the dark varieties of marble-had been used, and the mosaic and brass doors, which were nearing completion, were masterpieces of Alexandrian art. [10]
If she was not mistaken, they were nearing the end of the road, and she would soon learn what was before her. [10]
The sun was nearing the western hills beyond the river, and people had for some time been wending their way towards the field where the horses were tied. [9]
Now he was nearing the scene of his new labors. [10]
So we were nearing Honolulu, the capital city of the Sandwich Islands--those islands which to me were Paradise; a Paradise which I had been longing all those years to see again. [5]
As they were nearing home she suddenly struck up the air of As 'twas growing dark last night--the tune of which she had all the way been trying to get and had at last caught. [2]
The two boats nearing each other, Joan stood up, saluting, and Lafarge did the same. [11]
He was a man nearing the middle age, with a lacing of red in his cheeks, a pleasant gray eye, and a singularly quiet manner. [9]
At ancient Ayassalook, in the midst of a forbidding desert, we came upon long lines of ruined aqueducts, and other remnants of architectural grandeur, that told us plainly enough we were nearing what had been a metropolis, once. [5]
She had been ill for a week before nearing Kingston, and when the Regent reached the harbour she was in a bad way. [11]
So far as I have observed persons nearing the end of life, the Roman Catholics understand the business of dying better than Protestants. [6]
Rapidly nearing this heavenly battlement, an immense niche was disclosed in its solid face. [4]
At this moment he fancied he saw something in the water nearing him. [11]
Once before she had seen just such a group nearing her door. [11]
As he retreated, Gering felt, as he broke ground, that he was nearing the wall, and, even as he parried, incautiously threw a half- glance over his shoulder to see how near. [11]
She fancied, however, from the damp wind that blew in her face and relieved her burning head, that they must be nearing the lake or the sea. [10]
We kept on climbing, through the oppressive gloom, till I thought we ought to be nearing the top of the pyramid again, and then came to the "Queen's Chamber," and shortly to the Chamber of the King. [5]
I was asleep, but Luigi was awake, and he thought he detected a vague form nearing the bed. [5]
A few words brought out the fact that Rose Lepage was nearing the fort from the south. [11]
Carnac was not as confident as he seemed, but he was nearing the end of the trail; and his feet were free and his head clear. [11]
She must in any case grant him the same favour, no matter in what place or by whose hand he met death, and the bedimmed light of his existence was but too evidently nearing extinction. [10]
Sounds of hoofs and shouts were nearing the village. [2]
A few days after they had quitted Besa he was sitting alone with the poetess on the deck of the Nile boat which, borne by the current and propelled by a hundred oars, was rapidly and steadily nearing its destination. [10]
He knew that a crisis was nearing in the royal relations with Leicester. [11]

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