508 examples of very close in sentences

We came very close above them, so that I could hear their talk.

While we rested ourselves on a horizontal monument, which was elevated just high enough to be a convenient seat, I observed that one of the gravestones lay very close to the church,so close that the droppings of the eaves would fall upon it.

Hengist was seated very close the king.

Yet the tradition was remembered; for, as I might say it, we lived very close about the place; and Memory had no room whereby she might escape.

And because that now I saw them anigh to me, it was borne in afresh upon my spirit how greatly I had wandered away, and how that I stood afar in the lonesomeness of that Land of Night; as it had been that a man of this Age did wander amid the stars, and perceive a great comet to go by him very close; for then he should know in his heart how that he was far off in the Void.

I observed that in passing each other very close the Duke of Wellington and the Duke of Cumberland took no notice of each other.

The other was dark, bronzed by foreign travel, perhaps, with black hair, cut very close to an intelligent-looking head, bared to the evening breeze.

Shall I not hug thee very close?

It is a pleasing situation to be lost in the dark somewhere very close to the enemy's lines when you know that the only available bridge is just going to be blown up.

For some time, he appeared to be engaged in a very close scrutiny of the household, who occupied the other end of the kitchena scrutiny which, owing to the darkness, could not yield him much satisfaction.

To begin with Gadkari was very close to Goa's first chief minister, Dayanand Bandodkar.

If I have found my way to the light, there must be others groping after it very close in my neighbourhood.

"She is very close-mouthed, sahib," added Selim, with conviction.

So I attended very close to your directions.

Even if they did not undertake to storm the fort they would linger near it, in the hope of cutting off men who came forth incautiously, and at night, especially if it happened to be dark, they would be sure to come very close.

The idea of the felucca's sails, in particular, would seem to have been literally taken from the wing of the large sea-fowl, the shape so nearly corresponding that, with the canvas spread in the manner just mentioned, one of those light craft has a very close resemblance to the gull or the hawk, as it poises itself in the air or is sweeping down upon its prey.

"It's coming, you know," he said abruptly, "the moment's getting very close.

[Footnote 42: Proxime accessit: he comes very close to it.

Now, one of them, Yuch-lang, was a very close friend of Shih-niang, so, seeing that she had not done her hair, she led her to her own toilet-table, and ran to call another friend, Hsu Su-Su.

In outdoor clothes and with a veil, I should never have been able to identify her without very close inspection.

The pirates and the men-of-war were very close to each other, and they boasted mutually about their strength and valor.

Allan Morris was not neglected; on the contrary, he figured a very close second to his betrothed in the types.

He drew very close to me, his fingers gripping my sleeve"I'll tell you, Ivan Andreievitchbut you mustn't tell anybody else.

Upon the crest of the dividing ridge, very close to the source of the Southwest Branch, a large monument has been erected.

A very greedy old lady employed another John Colquhoun to cut the grass upon the lawn, and enjoined him to cut it very close, adding, as a reason for the injunction, that one inch at the bottom was worth two at the top.

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