As the play nears its end, footmen crowd forward at the doors.

When it was time for the arrival of the boat bringing the newspapers from which the different papers expected to get their telegraphic news, messengers from the different offices would be at the levee, and as the boat neared the shore they would leap for the gangplank, and there was always a scramble to get to the clerk's office first.

Gradually, I neared the House, and my thoughts flashed back across the abyss of years.

Buildings to accommodate new aeroplane and armament construction of different kinds are mentioned, and the letter continues: "We have also put up another gun-shop, 565 feet long, and 163 feet widein three extensionsof which the third is nearing completion.

As I neared the door, I saw two figures in white working over the guns.

"Nearing our destination, wherever that is," muttered Jack.

Whether by accident or design, a rumor suddenly spread through the town that Piero de' Medici was nearing the gates.

"At three-forty P.M., as the services neared their close, a violent change took place in her appearance, and she uttered in shrill tones those astonishing words which horrified all below and made us feel that she had a clairvoyant knowledge of the closing of the casket, then taking place: "'Break it open!

Mr. Bowman, the son of Wordsworth's last teacher at the grammar-school of Hawkshead, told me that it stood about forty yards nearer the village than the yew which is now on the roadside, and is sometimes called "Wordsworth's Yew."

Now in an almost straight line, now by zigzags, we gradually neared the town, the gorge widening at the same time, though the peaks, some covered with trees, some snow-covered, seemed to bar the way completely at no very great distance.

just as we were nearing the point where we were to take the open ground and make our charge, one of the colored gentlemen became so excited that he fired off his gun.

We stationed two of our boats between the island and the shore nearest the main land, and the other on the opposite side, and sent Cullen upon the island to beat for game.

But as they neared their goal the boys' minds could scarcely escape misgivings.

As he neared the coast, the bend of the Flinders brought that river again across his route, and it was then that he came on some camel tracks, which assured him that the missing party, the object of his search, had at any rate reached the Gulf safely.

They were nearing the long, low line of Murano.

The majority of my company had no idea of what might be done that night, therefore they lay down to sleep as usual, Jacob and I seeking the open air after we found it was impossible to take interest in any subject save that which lay, just at that time, nearest our hearts.

And how was she to know, poor Billie, that the news the girls would have to tell her would serve only to make her mood the blacker? As she neared the Farrington home, Violet herself came rushing out to meet her, looking unusually and feverishly excited.

Its outer edgesthe edges of the drawing nearest the edge of the vellumwere far more distinct than the others.

But when the hemlock and fir trees began to crowd out the maples and oaks, Helma said quietly one day, "We are nearing the sea."

they at last imagined that he was dead, and one by one they closed or half-closed their wings and dropped, gliding downwards, growing larger in appearance as they neared the ground, until the small black spots no bigger than flies were seen to be great black birds as big as turkeys.

When he neared the meeting place, he felt a little disappointed.

[Illustration] As we neared this difficult entrance, we were all in a state of the most feverish excitement, expecting, such was the fury of the breakers, to be thrown on the rock on either side.

Then, as I neared the earth's surface, a dimness swept over me, and I appeared to sink into a black mist.

Last evening it had advanced westwardly; this evening still further, and nearing the pole.

The regulation shot was fired across her bows as she neared the city; whereupon she fired three guns to leeward, hoisted the private signal, and showed the Union Jack.