As they neared the beach the clamor increased and the line broke up in apparent confusion, circling round and round for some minutes in what seemed aimless uncertainty.

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.

As the car neared the top of a hill the road curved into another, and Lenore saw a dusty flash of another car passing on ahead.

Occasionally we passed a dreary little village of small huts, and as we neared St. Petersburg we passed larger and better built towns, which the dome of some cathedral lighted up for miles.

As we neared the big, empty barn, he turned in his saddle.

Daffodils were growing in profusion as we neared the summit, making the hill crest seem crowned with gold.

The boat went slower and slower as they neared it and then almost hung still over the garden.

His companion stopped short as he neared the table at which the two men were sitting, and took off his hat, greeting Selingman with respect.

We knew it was the station of an Imperial fleet, and as we neared it we found about thirty or forty warjunks, crowded with men and dressed in their gaudiest colours.

As we neared a pagoda, surrounded by a crenelated wall, we were fired upon two or three times.

If Leith was the scoundrel that Holman suspected, the two girls were in danger, and now as we neared the island where they would leave the yacht to accompany their father, the clutch of fear was upon me.

As they neared the house, he stopped, and said: "Looks like I'll never get there, after all.

Their progress at first was good, but as they neared the central portion of the water they were swept many yards downstream for one that they made in a transverse direction.

And now, as our vessel neared the wharf from which we had started while the sun was yet in the east, I looked forward to see what signs of the times were astir on the forecastle.

As we neared the picturesque Cavein-Rock shore, I took the small boat, and, with some others, landed to view this traveler's wonder.

" Did you ever sail over a blue summer sea towards a mountainous coast, frowning, sullen, gloomy: and have you not seen the gloom retire before you as you advanced; the hills, grim in the distance, stretch into sunny slopes when you neared them; and the waters smile in cheerful light, that looked so black when they were far away?

As I neared the house, the whole approach was crowded with carriages and horsemen.

What with the visitors, and what with the cards, and what with the fight, my stay had lasted so long that when I neared home the light on the spit of sand off the point on the marshes was gleaming against a black night-sky, and Joe's furnace was flinging a path of fire across the road.

But as they neared the house the major's unyielding disposition loomed up formidably.

As they neared, I recognised the men, from certain particulars in their uniform, a party of theth, the regiment into which I had enlisted.

As they neared the coast of Attica a great storm burst upon them, and the ship capsized.

The morning was beautifully fine, with a haze which foretold the coming heat: as the morning advanced, the breeze failed us, but at nine o'clock we had neared the town to within about five miles; the long line of batteries were distinctly seen, with the red flag flying in all directions, and the masts of the shipping showed above the walls of the mole.

But the boat neared the shore, and still there was no sign from those silent cliffs and thickets.

" In the afternoon of the same day they neared Ruffec, and at the ford found three brigands ready, two of whom the Prince slew, and the other fled.

Above us the gray broken mass of rim towered and loomed, more formidable as we neared it.