Which preposition to use with nearest
A long time went by, and I became aware that I was nearer to the orbs, than I had been.
Man's first primer was near at hand.
The tall lilies are brought forward in all their glory by the light of your blazing camp-fire, relieved against the outer darkness, and the nearest of the trees with their whorled branches tower above you like larger lilies, and the sky seen through the garden opening seems one vast meadow of white lily stars.
I leave that, therefore, and say only this; for even if my sister knows no Greek, I do: The knee is nearer than the shin.
We were near by with our two boats when he took to the water, and we thought we would accompany him as an escort to the shore; so we rowed up, and with a boat on each side, and within ten feet of him, as he swam, escorted him towards the forest.
Then high above the din, in the exultant tumult of the deadly won ground, the nearest in blue hear a stentorian voicegrim, deliberate, exultant: "Look where Jackson stands like a stone-wall!
If I've been followed, it was not so near as that.
... nearer with great speed.
Presently, out she came, as I thought, and I followed, very craftily, and not too near for fear she should look round.
Yet, though this dear and homely sympathy was a sweet and companionable thing to my heart, it came swift to my thought that I was in a sore danger, if that they ceased not quickly to think so onely upon me; for surely was I not come over-near unto that dreadful House of Silence; and well might so much Emotion of the Millions tell unto the Horrid Power that dwelt within, how that I was even anigh.
Somehow to-night he did not feel as if God was near on the hills, as Scofield thought.
The wounded man nearest to me had received a musket ball in his stomach.
He crept a little nearer like a guilty dog.
Doncaster, Selby, Yorkwhich is nearest from wherever we are!"
It's near about the sightliest place I ever see.
continued the officer, waving his arms and hustling those nearest toward the door.
The three human foster-children who have been taken nearest into Nature's bosom, perhaps,an odd triad, surely, for the whimsical nursing mother to select,are Wordsworth, Bettine Brentano, and Thoreau.
It was a long shot, but as the nature of the ground rendered it impossible for Dick to get nearer without being seen, he fired, and wounded the buck so badly that he came up with it in a few minutes.