47943 examples of nearest in sentences

The University in question is situate nearly at the extremity of the northern branch of this gulf, which splits into two about 300 miles from its end, a canal of course connecting it with the nearest sea-belt.

As these stations are nearly always placed in towns or villages, or in well-peopled country neighbourhoods, food is supplied by the nearest confectioner to each traveller individually, and a single person, assisted by the ambau, is able to manage the largest of them.

Quickly he slipped them under and around the gun, and then took a seat at the nearest table.

Kurt found his nearest neighbor, Olsen, cutting a thin, scarcely ripe barley.

When it appeared that the one cottage nearest the rain of sparks was sure to go, Kurt thought of the railroad watertank below the station.

Steve Jarrold, the one nearest Gloria, swung about, saw her, dropped what was in his hands, and lunged towards her.

Brodie, leaning back, caught up a bottle and drank, and thereafter passed the bottle to the man nearest him.

Pamela, as being nearest to Dab in age and sympathy, gave a very admiring look at her brother's second "good fit," and said nothing.

As it was, after hurrying on for a short distance, and making sure he was not pursued, he clambered over the fence, and sneaked into the nearest clump of bushes.

" The ladder was one the house-painters had been using, and was a pretty heavy one; but it was quickly set up against the largest and most valuable of the barns, and the one, too, which was nearest and most exposed to the burning building and its flying cinders.

I am, indeed, desirous that our friends, if any there be that deserve that name, should succeed in their designs, and be protected in their claims; but think it ought always to be remembered, that our own affairs affect us immediately, theirs only by consequence, and that the nearest danger is to be first regarded.

Let me see, Misther Williams, what's the nearest port?

This was the nearest approach to a naval engagement they experienced during their stay on the war frigate.

A Swatie is easily recognised by the sallow appearance he presentsa striking contrast to his nearest neighbours.

Of the two, I think the Americans nearest right, and I now conceive myself to be more of an American than an Englishman.

But the nearest place where money would be of use is Coombe, and Coombe is a full mile away.

Leland, who lived nearest to Chaucer's time of all those who have wrote his life, was commissioned by king Henry VIII, to search all the libraries, and religious houses in England, when those archives were preserved, before their destruction was produced by the reformation, or Polydore Virgil had consumed such curious pieces as would have contradicted his framed and fabulous history.

Presently, when the plane nearest him seemed about to swoop down and touch the ice, he moved to a position beneath it, and, with tongue lolling, stood on his haunches again and swinging his giant paw to accompany the swing of the plane, struck out as it approached him.

Under pressure of circumstances the steering-head could have been taken to the nearest blacksmith shop and a weld made, but that would require time, and the results would be more than doubtful.

The nearest and dearest friend father ever had, and the man who has helped me most by his life, his books, his society.

She had made every arrangement for her death, and by her own wish her funeral was in her father's rooms in Boston, and attended by only a few of her family and nearest friends.

That was the nearest they ever came to the facts, and it was not needful they should ever know more.

There were three of these hummocks, side by side, and Captain Plum chose the one nearest the old man and waited for him to speak.

The man was at the end nearest the window and all that Nat could see was the back of his head and shoulders.

The woman nearest her reached over and laid a caressing hand on the bowed head, but drew it quickly away as if at a sharp command.

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