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Sentences starting with nearly

Nearly seven hundred years ago, that castle was the property of the noble Count Luigi Gennaro Guido Alphonso di Genova----" "What was his other name? [5]
Nearly a hundred years ago the crew of the British ship Bounty mutinied, set the captain and his officers adrift upon the open sea, took possession of the ship, and sailed southward. [5]
Nearly any person would have said to M. Bourget: "Oh, that is very simple. [5]
Nearly every individual wore the ribbon across his breast. [5]
Nearly any cigar will do me, except a Havana. [5]
Nearly all the way down from Geneva, we had seen signs of his coming, in preparations as for the celebration of a great victory. [4]
Nearly all were watching the rescue boat, though a few looked over the sides of the ship as if they expected to find bodies floating about. [11]
Nearly time for us to be moving, pard. [5]
Nearly all of us have an antipathy to a stranger, even of our own nationality. [5]
Nearly half of this delirious story has now been delivered to the reader. [5]

Sentences ending with nearly

The streets are sprinkled from end to end with shovel-hatted, long-robed, well-fed priests, and the church bells by dozens are pealing all the day long, nearly. [5]
Trying to make our fortune here, he brought us clear down to the ground, nearly. [5]
The other morning I took it up, and was absorbed in the telegraphic columns for an hour nearly. [4]
Not the great historical events, but the personal incidents that call up single sharp pictures of some human being in its pang or struggle, reach us most nearly. [6]
Of the fifty-nine graduates ten only are living, or were at the last accounts; one in six, very nearly. [6]

Short sentences using nearly

I am nearly worn out. [5]
My foot's nearly well now. [11]
Nearly down to the Rhone. [5]
Nearly the same result. [10]
Not altogether, but nearly that. [5]
And she very nearly succeeded. [9]
His money was nearly finished. [11]
Our watch was nearly ended. [5]
The church was nearly empty. [4]
Well, I have nearly done. [10]

Sentences containing nearly two or more times

For we can thus see how it has come to pass that certain mental faculties, in various and widely distinct groups of animals, have been developed in nearly the same manner and to nearly the same degree. [1]
During his brief matrimonial experience with her, he nearly died for want of breath--or rather the life was nearly shaken out of him. [9]
In the very first act nearly all the Whigs voted against the preamble declaring that war existed by the act of Mexico; and yet nearly all of them voted for the supplies. [7]
Work cures nearly every illness and nearly every trouble'--that is what he said. [11]
To see our comrades, we had to look very nearly straight up at those above us, and very nearly straight down at those below. [5]
The Botocudos again, as well as the other inhabitants of tropical America, are wholly different from the Negroes who inhabit the opposite shores of the Atlantic, are exposed to a nearly similar climate, and follow nearly the same habits of life. [1]

More example sentences with the word nearly in them

You lived for yourself and say you nearly ruined your life and only found happiness when you began living for others. [2]
I suppose the Young Lady expressed a nearly universal feeling in her regret at the breaking up of the winter-fireside company. [4]
She's never known you, never seen what most of us have seen, that all you have--or nearly all--is your lovely looks, and what they call a kind heart. [11]
If I could you would say you were nearly paid for the trouble you took. [5]
I should tell you that this doubt has been confirmed into something very nearly approaching certainty by the best opinions we have been enabled, in this short space of time, to take upon the subject. [12]
I have given you all I could, and I have given you very nearly, if not quite, 35,000. [7]
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]
Evelyn was not yet out, but she was very nearly out, and after the late notoriety Mrs. Mavick dreaded the regular Newport season. [4]
During those 1500 years, Satan's influence was worth very nearly a hundred times as much to the business as was the influence of all the rest of the Holy Family put together. [5]
At nearly fifteen years old, when she was growing fast, and in an irritable state of mind and body, she had had a governess placed over her for whom she had conceived an aversion. [6]
It's nearly a year now since you took me in. [9]
He had been wrong nearly every time for two years. [11]
I thought of writing you, when you nearly won last autumn. [9]
It had nearly wrecked her life: and he only realised it now, in the moment of clear-seeing which comes to every being once in a lifetime. [11]
Now, if they would make the effort in good temper, could they not with nearly equal unanimity frame and pass a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath? [7]
But then he would break out like a mad bull, and he might long ago have risen to higher rank, had he not once in such a fit of passion nearly throttled a fellow-soldier. [10]
All the other wonderful inventions of the human brain sink pretty nearly into commonplace contrasted with this awful mechanical miracle. [5]
At length, having won back nearly all he had lost, he rose to his feet and looked round. [11]
I exhausted my wits, and very nearly my patience also, in efforts to convince both that the evils they charged on each other were inherent in the case, and could not be cured by giving either party a victory over the other. [7]
You would know, without my telling you, that Joan's heart was nearly broken. [5]
He was intimate with the flying-squirrels who dwell in the chestnut-trees,--too intimate, for almost every day in the summer he would bring in one, until he nearly discouraged them. [4]
Bear Island is, with the exception of the cove into which we had put, as nearly round as an island can be, and perhaps three miles in diameter. [9]
We shall meet with nearly analogous cases when we treat of mammals. [1]
Mr. Fenton contrasts with astonishment the decrease in New Zealand with the increase in Ireland; countries not very dissimilar in climate, and where the inhabitants now follow nearly similar habits. [1]
A good horse will walk three miles an hour over nearly any kind of a road; therefore, an hour, here, always stands for three miles. [5]
You see, it will take nearly twice as long to do the first set as it will to do the second, and that will give you a marked sense of the difference in length of the two reigns. [5]
Two of them will sometimes wait nearly half a day while a comrade goes for a tool. [4]
But the reader will perceive by the above extract, that in Humboldt from one fourth to nearly half the mass was silver! [5]
We can see why it is that aborigines, who have long inhabited islands, and who must have been long exposed to nearly uniform conditions, should be specially affected by any change in their habits, as seems to be the case. [1]
That, indeed, was why her Carvillho Gonzales, who also had been dual in nature, said to himself so often, "I am a devil," and nearly as often, "I have the heart of an angel. [11]
The queen mother, whose position, in the eyes of the people, is nearly as high as that of the monarch himself, will do nothing to thwart the happiness of her youngest and favorite son. [10]
Among the guests who thronged to her house there was no lack of elderly gentlemen who would gladly have married the vivacious, unusual woman, who was so nearly connected with the royal family, and lived in such luxurious style. [10]
In summer its white wooden front was nearly hidden by the quivering leaves of two tall pear trees. [9]
Her gray, nearly white hair, though ill-suited to her almost youthful features, lent them a peculiar charm, and how brightly her round, brown eyes still sparkled! [10]
At last, a while after midnight, a man attacked a woman and nearly killed her by beating her over the head with his manacles before the jailer could come to the rescue. [5]
Besides, the buildings which surrounded the golden coffin were nearly completed at the time of our departure. [10]
That Greek line, which I do not remember having heard mention of as remarkable, has nearly every consonantal and vowel sound in the language. [6]
Before they realized where they were, they had nearly crossed the Bellegarde estate, and the house itself was come into view, standing high on the slope above the withered garden. [9]
At the Secundrabagh, where nearly two thousand of the enemy occupied a great stone house in a garden, the work of slaughter was continued until every man was killed. [5]
In all places where italics occur, they are mine: After the execution of the five men on the 14th of January, the Vigilantes considered that their work was nearly ended. [5]
By and by, when I got down nearly to her, I eased up and went slow and cautious. [5]
Before dawn we were with our army again, and with us the Constable and nearly all his men, for we left only a small garrison in Beaugency castle. [5]
These four years were the period of Mr. Adams's administration, nearly and substantially. [7]
These young birds were not albinos, as shewn by the colour of their beaks and legs, which nearly resembled the same parts in the adults. [1]
Presently, when we were nearly out of the Strand, she turned upon me abruptly. [9]
Some of them were nearly as large square as an ordinary parlor. [5]
And these comments were nearly all respectful, and most of them kindly. [4]
Our cases, indeed, were dissimilar, and Tom's incentive to hold back the facts was not nearly so great as mine. [9]
Most of them were disfigured by frost-bitten noses and cheeks, and nearly all had red, swollen and festering eyes. [2]
The fearful work went on until nearly dawn. [5]
But they were well nursed in the hospital; the people of Honolulu kept them supplied with all the dainties they could need; they gathered strength fast, and were presently nearly as good as new. [5]
In the meantime we were off through Cursitor Street at a gallop, nearly causing the death of a ragged urchin at the corner of Chancery Lane. [9]
Up this creek we took the men; we went, I daresay, five or six hundred yards up it, which took us nearly half-an-hour to accomplish. [5]
More than that, we stood regular and nearly constant watches pushing up behind. [5]
By stopping here we had the misfortune to lose our excursion, a loss that was soothed by no know ledge of its destination or hope of seeing it again, and a loss without a hope is nearly always painful. [4]
Let us, if we can, reconstruct an August day when all (or nearly all) of Honora's small friends were gone eastward to the mountains or the seaside. [9]
They have a way of mixing the oxygen which issues in small jets from certain natural springs with their atmospheric nitrogen in the proportion of about twenty per cent, which makes very nearly the same thing as the air of your planet. [6]
Simple as it was, an architect would have said that its proportions were nearly perfect. [9]
My first purpose was to have the man make a collection of caves and afterwards of echoes; but perceived that the element of absurdity and impracticability was so nearly identical as to amount to a repetition of an idea..... [5]
Lem Hallowell, who was there nearly an hour ahead of them, declares that the off horse had a bunch of branches in his mouth. [9]
I knew it was the nest of some wild animal; but I was nearly dead with hunger and fatigue. [11]
Long before supper was ready, nearly nine o'clock, we had almost lost interest in it. [4]
Barclay de Tolly was quartered nearly three miles from the Emperor. [2]
A single number was printed, when it was interrupted the course of events, and not resumed until nearly years later, in January, 1890. [6]
True, the execution was not nearly so good as at the rehearsal, for Maria sang in a low and somewhat muffled voice, while, spite of Wilhelm's vehement beating of time, the warmth and verve of the day before would not return. [10]
Well, all that was nearly three hours ago. [5]
Just at night,--it was nearly seven o'clock,--we entered one of the most stately forests I have ever seen, and rode for some distance in an alley of rhododendrons that arched overhead and made a bower. [4]
Poor Mr. Holt was nearly out of his head. [9]
When the forenoon was nearly gone, she recognized with a pang that this most splendid episode of her life was almost over, that nothing could prolong it, that nothing quite its equal could ever fall to her fortune again. [5]
In Massachusetts there was from the beginning a steady purpose to make a permanent settlement and colony, and nearly all those who came over worked, with more or less friction, with this end before them. [4]
The huge building was filled in all parts by the followers of the embassy, nearly three hundred in number, and by the high guests themselves, to whom every possible attention was paid. [10]
But down-stream work was different; a boat was too nearly helpless, with a stiff current pushing behind her; so it was not customary to run down-stream at night in low water. [5]
Presently the term was cut down nearly half, but the price remained as before. [5]
Aunt Polly's happiness was complete, and Mrs. Thatcher's nearly so. [5]
Pierre inquired what was being said about leaving, and the corporal told him that nearly all the troops were starting and there ought to be an order about the prisoners that day. [2]
Mention of the war will wake up a dull company and set their tongues going, when nearly any other topic would fail. [5]
My imagination, naturally vivid, stimulated by such repasts, nearly mastered me. [4]
I continued my visits of inquiry, nearly always meeting some person of consequence, or the footman of such, come on the same errand as myself. [9]
He was seeing visions of a captain's sword and epaulettes, and planning to get men, money and horses together--for this matter had been brooding for nearly a year, and he had been the active leader in Bonaventure. [11]
But still the village seemed noisy, and, although it was dusk, I could make out much stir in the one street along which the cottages and huts ambled for nearly a mile. [11]
The three other victims fell nearly four thousand feet, and their bodies lay together upon the glacier when found by Mr. Whymper and the other searchers the next morning. [5]
And this is very singular in this humanitarian age, when excuse is found for nearly every moral delinquency in heredity or environment, that the greatest factor of discontent and crookedness, the weather, should be left out of consideration altogether. [4]
Honest Whigs (and very nearly all of them are honest) would not quietly abide such enormities. [7]
And he was very nearly all in all to her. [5]
The water was very cold; he clung to a cotton bale--mainly with his teeth--and floated until nearly exhausted, when he was rescued by some deck hands who were on a piece of the wreck. [5]
Beginning with the usual formality, he said: "I am obliged to differ from nearly every sentiment expressed by the Earl of Eglington, the member for Levizes, who has just taken his seat. [11]
Phips had picked up his sailors in English ports, and nearly all of them were brutal adventurers. [11]
They all crowded up and leaned over the rails, nearly in my face, and kept still, watching with all their might. [5]
So I sat up all night, and followed the relief party in the morning, and you nearly disfigured me for life when you threw that bottle into the woods. [9]
It was not until to-day, after the lapse of nearly a month, that I happened upon my Encephalic chapter again. [5]
It was not until nearly seven o'clock that the train arrived which brought home my Cousin Robert. [9]
In fact, nearly unthinkable, and wholly unrealizable, when one comes to consider it. [5]
Our bedroom has two great glass bird-cages (enclosed balconies) one looking toward the Rhine valley and sunset, the other looking up the Neckar cul-de-sac, and naturally we spend nearly all our time in these --when one is sunny the other is shady. [5]
Sonya was nearly twenty; she had stopped growing prettier and promised nothing more than she was already, but that was enough. [2]
Though by the twentieth of August nearly all the Rostovs' acquaintances had left Moscow, and though everybody tried to persuade the countess to get away as quickly as possible, she would not hear of leaving before her treasure, her adored Petya, returned. [2]
She is nearly twelve years of age, and is sufficiently well grown for her years. [4]
I am, in turn, as firm, and nearly as excited in seeming. [4]
And it was true that when Gertrude Constable had nearly died of appendicitis, it was on this lady's broad bosom that Mrs. Constable had wept. [9]
Michael Angelo, who tried every art, and nearly every trade, never gave his mind to fertilizing. [4]
Smith wrote his travels in London nearly thirty years after, and it is difficult to say how much is the result of his own observation and how much he appropriated from preceding romances. [4]

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