XXIII NEARING SHINY WALL

At the Drones I ran into Pongo Twistleton, and he talked so much about the forthcoming merry-making of his, of which good reports had already reached me through my correspondents, that it was nearing eleven when I got home again.

When the main fleet of a country is at a distancewhich it ought not to be except with the object of nearing the opposing fleeta small hostile expedition may slip across, say the Channel, throw shells into a coast town or burn a fishing village, and get home again unmolested.

Nearing Kildale, the road suddenly plunged downwards to a stream flowing through a green, cultivated valley, with a lonely farm on the further slope.

On nearing the shore, the Moorish pilots recognized it, and said that the Christian island of Quiloa was three leagues astern; on which the general was much grieved, believing certainly that the natives of Quiloa had been Christians, as represented by the pilots, and that they had purposely taken a wrong course that the ships might not come there.

At Fuicchio and Grosseto they made sojourns, that the Duke might inspect the new fortifications, which were nearing completion, and view the partly formed roads.

" A band outside B Mess was nearing the climax of GRIEG'S "Peer Gynt" suite.

It was now nearing Christmas Day, and we knew it would fall to our lot to be back in the trenches again on the 23rd of December, and that we would, in consequence, spend our Christmas there.

It was getting darker now, and nearing the time when I had to put on all my tackle, and gird myself up for my round of the trenches.

We were now nearing the village of Wieltj, about two miles from St. Jean, which we had passed.

Faintly I heard the boom of the waterfall, and knew we were nearing the goal.

Yes, you are nearing the winning-post, and you are among the first; but six pounds more on your back, and you might have been nowhere.

Finding herself nearing the limit of diminution of several household necessities, and the spring suggesting the beginning of new ones, she made up her mind to profit by her husband's absence and the fair weather to make a trading visit to the neighboring town next day.

At last her long and active life was nearing its close.

It was nearing midnight; sentries of the city, still under martial law, ordered him off the streets before he realized passing time....

The steamer was steadily but very slowly nearing the Sparhawk, when the woman removed the glass and stood up waist high above the rail of the steamer Now I could see her much better; I fancied I could almost discern her features.

National Geographic Society (PWH); 30Mar59; R234357. NEARING, SCOTT.

Scott Nearing (A); 6May59; R236201.

TURKEY RED BY FRANCES GILCHRIST WOOD From Pictorial Review The old mail-sled running between Haney and Le Beau, in the days when Dakota was still a Territory, was nearing the end of its hundred-mile route.

We mourn no more the vanished youth, We are nearing the heaven of eternal truth; We lament no more the earthly ills, For their power will cease on the heavenly hills.

On nearing the beach, we could plainly see great numbers of naked people going about, at which circumstance we were much rejoiced.

Hungry, and clothing stiff with frost, Our men declare a nearing sun Shall see the fall of Donelson.

They all appeared to enter heartily into the sport, and kept nearing the willows which extended along the bank of the creek, close to the wharf, and Frank and William, watching their opportunity, concealed themselves, and the others ran toward the house.

Again and again the fox turned, each time nearing the woods, and gaining considerably; and finally, reaching the end of the meadow, he cleared the fence at a bound, and disappeared in the bushes.

For example, we are told that one chief, on his canoe first nearing the coast, saw the feathery, blood-red rata-flowers gleaming in the forest, and promptly threw overboard his Polynesian coronet of red feathers, exclaiming that he would get a new crown in the new land.