This lake is one of the few in all this region that I had never visited before, and is next in beauty to its namesake, two days' journey nearer to civilization.

There wasn't any house then nearer than Harriets Town, down by the Lower Saranac; but there was a company of lumbermen having a shanty up towards the head of the lake, near where the Bog River enters.

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

I have frequently, in my wanderings in these northern wilds, stumbled upon outcropping orebeds, which, were they nearer market, or more accessible to the energy and enterprise of the American people, would be capable of building up gigantic fortunes, but they are all valueless here, and probably will continue so for generations to come.

"There, Judge" said Cullen, "I've hearn that sound often among the mountains, and when I've been driftin' about on these lakes, it never seems much louder or nearer.

As the night advanced the mighty rock walls of my mountain mansion seemed to come nearer, while the starry sky in glorious brightness stretched across like a ceiling from wall to wall, and fitted closely down into all the spiky irregularities of the summits.

They are twenty miles away, but you would not wish them nearer, for every feature is distinct, and the whole glorious show is seen in its right proportions.

I must now make haste to give some nearer views of representative specimens lying at different elevations on the main lake-belt, confining myself to descriptions of the features most characteristic of each.

Cricker came a little nearer, lowering his voice again.

The umpires are always with us, and the umpire problem has been a vexation of Base Ball since the beginning of Base Ball time, yet neither the umpires, the public, the club owners nor the league officials need be discouraged, for it was fully proved in 1912 that umpiring, as a fine art, has advanced a step nearer perfection.

"Well, I'm glad that's settled, although it brings us no nearer towards solving the mystery of what happened overhead.

[Approaching nearer.

Gilbert felt the charm of the hour; the air still and mild, the silence only broken by the cawing of palatial rooks; and whatever tenderness towards John Saltram there was lurking in his breast seemed to grow upon him as he drew nearer to their lodgings; so that his mood was of the softest when he opened the little garden-gate and went in.

It was scarcely strange, then, that she brooded upon the memory of that night when the nameless stranger had come to Wyncomb, and that she tried to put the fact of his coming and that other incident of the cry together, and to make something out of the two events by that means; but put them together as she might, she was no nearer any solution of the mystery.

The rain increased as the time for the farmer's return drew nearer.

The delighted amazement reached even her tired ears, and she had smiled wanly as she pushed the pile of coppers nearer to him.

The faint, steady pulsing was drawing nearer and nearernearer stillit must be flying quite high.

There it was again, coming swiftly nearer and nearer from some immeasurable distancedowndownnearer stillthe very room was humming and throbbing with itshe could almost hear the singing in the wires.

There it was again, coming swiftly nearer and nearer from some immeasurable distancedowndownnearer stillthe very room was humming and throbbing with itshe could almost hear the singing in the wires.

"Why in the world should it mean rain?" Her small, pale face looked suddenly brilliant and enchanted, tilted up to meet the thunderous music that was swinging nearer and nearer.

"Why in the world should it mean rain?" Her small, pale face looked suddenly brilliant and enchanted, tilted up to meet the thunderous music that was swinging nearer and nearer.

There's been thunder for the last hour or so, and it's getting nearer, too.

Nearer, nearer, circling and darting and swoopingthe gigantic humming grew louderlouder stillit swept about her thunderously, so close that she clapped her hands over her ears, but she stood her ground, exultant and undaunted.

Nearer, nearer, circling and darting and swoopingthe gigantic humming grew louderlouder stillit swept about her thunderously, so close that she clapped her hands over her ears, but she stood her ground, exultant and undaunted.

Ha! Lead me a little nearer, Boy. 1 B. What is't Sir? If it be any thing to purchase money, Which is our want, [command] us.