55 Metaphors for nearer

There were suggestions of huge gun emplacements above there, and nearer were piles of mighty cylinders that were perhaps ammunition.

The nearest, and actually the parish church, is a hideous compo structure, built in the worst of times as a chapel of ease to S. Clements.

The neighbors comprising those who lived for twenty miles around, the nearest being a mile distant, were pleasant, light-hearted people, and the civilities which were shown to the new comers were without end.

Nearest to them in temper is the school of Matthew Arnold and Clough; they have the same quick sensitiveness to the intellectual tendencies of the age, but their foothold in a time of shifting and dissolving creeds is a stoical resignation very different from the buoyant optimism of Browning, or Tennyson's mixture of science and doubt and faith.

Of the three Carthaginian generals Hasdrubal Barcas was stationed at the sources, Hasdrubal son of Gisgo at the mouth, of the Tagus, and Mago at the Pillars of Hercules; the nearest of them was ten days' march from the Phoenician capital New Carthage.

Among all the monarchs of that faithless age, the nearest to a man was a woman.

No, nothing except birds and trees, water-lilies and such like happenings, ever happens along the old canal; and our nearest to a human event was our meeting with a lonely, melancholy man, sitting near a moss-grown water-wheel, smoking a corn-cob pipe, and gazing wistfully across at the Ramapo Hills, over which great sunlit clouds were billowing and casting slow-moving shadows.

Nearest to the gate of the enemy's camp was a Pelignian cohort, whose commander, Vibius Accuaeus, seizing the standard, threw it over the rampart.

A little nearer this way, that is where John and the carriage stood, in the direction of the house, was a young child seated on the turf holding a dog, whilst two other children were trying to make it jump to catch a flower, one held in her hand.

And the nearer the minute for starting the more absorbed he became in the mechanism of the thing, and the more animated was his explanation of the relative merits of the P.L.M. engine and the North-Western engine.

Near is a common adjective, of the positive degree; compared, near, nearer, 2.[sicKTH] nearest or next.

Near and west of it, is a lower saddle-shaped mountain, called by the natives The Cradle Top.

In that case, it would of course be true, that the nearer you approach the fountain, the purer the stream would be.

Near-by, upon a chair, was a basin of water, soap and a towel.

A little nearer the cliff, however, was a clear, cold spring from the rock, and of this I had a satisfying drink.

The nearest I could get was Dunkirk, and I came in time to see amazing scenes in that port of France.

Nearest of all was the Carpathia, bound from New York for Mediterranean ports, only sixty miles away.

" Now, there are five little red-and-white bath-houses upon the beach at Matocton; the nearest of them was some thirty feet from Mr. Charteris.

But near are two or three younger ones only forty or fifty feet high, and you see their delicate feather heads, and are told that they are Manacques; {137b} the slender nymphs which attend upon the forest queen, as beautiful, though not as grand, as she.

I must confess, that, from the moment of leaving Augsburg, my happiness, and with it my health, began to leave me; the nearer I drew toward my native city, the more numerous were the letters of my father, which met me, urging me onward, as the condition of my mother's health was critical.

Nearer to the true novel is Lodge's romantic story of Rosalynde, which was used by Shakespeare in As You Like It.

The near and the remote are head and tail of the same law, and good writing unites them, giving wholeness and continuity.

A high bluff was named after Admiral Saunders, and near were several bays, "wherein there appear'd to be anchorage and shelter from South-West, Westerly, and North-West winds."

"And southwards, the nearest is Wyllardenand by a bird's flight that is thirteen miles and a half, and by the road more than nineteentwenty, I may say, by the road.

The nearest of them, three or four miles east and west, are McNeil's Point and Rowe's Point; the latter, besides commanding the eternally interesting cañon, gives wide-sweeping views southeast and west over the dark forest roof to the San Francisco and Mount Trumbull volcanoesthe bluest of mountains over the blackest of level woods.

55 Metaphors for  nearer