How To Use Come near In A Sentence
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Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
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He once suggested that my brother handle a bully by puffing up his chest and announcing, ‘If you come near me, I'll expectorate in your countenance.’
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This means that a few get top marks, a big bunch get middling marks, and a few come near the bottom.
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On mentioning the above to another birdcatcher he gave a huge snort of dissatisfaction, and roundly swore that my man knew "nought about it," for he always set his cages as near the nets as possible; "for don't it stand to reason," quoth he, "that if you set your cages fur away, your 'call birds' will 'tice the wild' uns down round 'em? an' they won't come near your nets.
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
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Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
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E'en sae, Milnwood," replied Cuddie; "for the puir quean gat leave to come near me wi 'speaking the loun fair, (d-- n him, that I suld say sae!) and sae she bade me God speed, and she wanted to stap siller into my hand; -- I'se warrant it was the tae half o' her fee and bountith, for she wared the ither half on pinners and pearlings to gang to see us shoot yon day at the popinjay.
Old Mortality, Complete
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Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.
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I shall immure myself in my quarters, and none of you, "he said, shaking his heavy fore - finger at us," shall come near me until" "he paused dramatically" 'that period is over and I know myself to be clean.
Nerilka's Story
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Frequently the ship was surrounded by bonitoes, moving through the waters much like porpoises; and the seamen got their harpoons ready, to strike any which might come near.
The South Sea Whaler
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Given the proximity of the interviews, there are still many imponderables that make predicting an outcome near impossible.
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But no Kafir was to come near us with an assagai The Kafir was a clever fellow, and wanted me to name a place to meet Hintza.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
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If they get upset, they may become curious and come near the boat.
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When I am gone, lay me in a plain white jelly-pot, with a parchment cover, and on the label write ---- but come nearer, I have a secret for your ear alone ... there are strange things in some cupboards!
Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890
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Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
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As we come near, their strange familiarity becomes simply strange.
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They fly or flee when we come near, scared that we might harm them.
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The easiest thing was to hold real still, like when you meet a bad dog or come near to stepping on a rattlesnake.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth. Sylvia Plath
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He felt he could come near to the strange signori.
Twilight in Italy
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I could not get near to it for the water which seemed deep and roaring but my desire was always intense to come nearer.
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The bruise imposthumated, and afterwards turned to a stinking ulcer, which made everybody shy to come near her, yet she wanted not the help of many able physicians, who attended very diligently, and did what men of skill could do; but all to no purpose, for her condition was now quite desperate, all regular physicians and her nearest relations having given her over.
History of John Bull
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Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
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With the ever increasing security gate access codes had become nearly impossible to duplicate, but with the warp drive they didn't even have to try.
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They are ruled on straight away, and a whole lot of what turns out to be irrelevant and inadmissible evidence does not come near the court.
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My family didn't disown us but they wouldn't come near us because he was there.
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‘Don't come near me,’ I muttered to myself, fearful of finding myself with a mugful of coffee tipped over me as she wobbled to a table.
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The guide motioned to me to come nearer.
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They are more or less angular, and while elongated transversely at first, become nearly isodiametric as the pileus becomes fully expanded, passing from an elongated form to rectangular, or sinuous in outline, the margin more or less upturned, especially in age, when they begin to loosen and "peel" from the surface of the cap.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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As I moved closer to observe, the policemen told curious onlookers not to come near.
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There are no shops except for the sub-post-office, and no smithy, and the bus does not come nearer than three miles.
TESTIMONIES
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La ilaha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He), the Ever Living, the One Who sustains and protects all that exists … [al-Baraqah 2: 255] until the end of the ayah, then you will have a protector from Allah and no shaytan (devil) will come near you until morning comes
Bloggers.Pakistan
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Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
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Yet, although their tackling of such existential matters displays a maturity that few of their hard-rocking colleagues ever come near, the means of delivery can at times seem adolescent.
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knocked on the door to deliver food and water and take away leavings, but no one else had dared come near.
A TIME OF WAR
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With respect to the pseudoscope -- which makes the outside of a teacup appear as the inside, and the inside as the outside; which transforms convexity into concavity, and the reverse; and a sculptured face into a hollow mask; which makes the tree in your garden appear inside your room, and the branches farthest off come nearest to the eye; and which, when you look at your pictures, represents them as sunk into a deep recess in the wall, -- with respect to this instrument, its practical uses have yet to be discovered.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426 Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852
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It's not sanitary to let flies come near food.
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Climbing the wall was relatively easy but she soon found that the guards did not leave their posts unwatched for long when the sound of footsteps began to come nearer to her.
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Strawberries must come near the top of the list.
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Outside, two men asked me what I was doing, and told me not to come near there again.
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Some people swear that he has never come near the left-field line, even to snag a simple pop-up.
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Foul devil of the netherworld, you wish me to come near you so as to wrestle my weapons away.
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I discard as irrelevant the effect of our warp drive as a cause for these changes; we have never come near the warp-effect boundary while in the neighborhood of zeta-10 Scorpii.
THE WOUNDED SKY
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No-one would come near the fence because he would start barking.
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As soon as you come near to the South Downs, you get into the chalk lands, and all the older buildings begin to have knapped flints in them.
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don't shoot until they come near
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“Nay, then, I will don thy buff coat and cap of steel, and walk with thy swashing step, and whistling thy pibroch of ‘Broken Bones at Loncarty’; and if they take me for thee, there dare not four of them come near me.”
The Fair Maid of Perth
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They come near a town that seems to be a good spot to land, and they ashore.
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Jesus offers a preface in these verses, which come near the conclusion of the section in John commonly referred to as Jesus' farewell discourse.
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I come near catchin 'the brat up by the feet an' beatin 'its can off.
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers
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Next, To _creep to you with his Body and Head close upon the ground_, by saying, _Come nearer, Come nearer_, or the like Words; to understand and do it, entice him with shewing him Bread, or the like: Thrusting down any rising part of his Body or head, and roughly threatning him; if he slight that, a good Jerk or two with a slash of Whip-cord will reclaim his Obstinacy.
The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing
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I hyperventilate when they come near me with the needle.
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Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
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It is not easy to render this term by a short and apt English term; "peccadillo" would come near the meaning.
Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
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Simple daily routines, such as peeling potatoes or fastening zips and buttons, become near impossible.
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Page 83 you a detail of events which preserved my life in those accidents. some of them you my reader may think incredible but let me say to you that they are all facts the first of which is that I use to have to go to mill ounce a week and had an old grey mare which I had to ride ever I went and she (the old mare) had I think as much sense as a great many people has and when ever she took it in her head not to be rode she would not suffer you to come near her and she would go nowhere but in the middle of the fields where she would run a person a half a day to catch her so she got this notion in her head one day and appeared that she was determid that I should not ride her so I had the same notion in my head and was determid that I would ride her and so we began our race which we kept up for the space of about 2 hours at which time we were both very well beatting for she had beat me runing and I had beat her witting by toaling her with an ear of corn into an old smoke house which stood in the field, so after we both got in there I had determid as soon as we got togather to settle the matter between ourselves without carioing it any further but I suppose that she had made up her mind quiete to the reverse as she showed by her action after words. for when I had done all I had to do by giving her about 30 lashes with a large whip which I had with me and add to her persicution I had put on a very nice spur which I had slipt out of the harness room now when all of this was done I was perfectly sattisfied in my own mind that the thing was done with nor did I intend to say any more about the matter but to my surprise when I led her out of the smoke house and mounted her she just showed me what she intended to do and that the thing should go further before it could be done with and that it should go there sooner than I would like: so off she went with me on her back as hard as she could go the distance of half a mile when she came to an apple orched when again to my suprise she turned into it and ran right under a limb and struck my head right smack dash against it which blow knocked me out for dead upon the ground and there I laided I know not how long but when I come to myself my antigonist was still standing by me waiting for my recoverry that she might perform the duty which she had delayed so long by this great combat between myself and her. it was god's mercy she did not kill me in that affear so that is one thing, and now for the next in which I was preserved when I was a boy I was very much afraid of dogs and it appears to me that all the dogs in the neighbourhood knew it so every where I went the dogs were all ways after me. and poor me I use to run myself almost to death to keep them from catching
Fields's Observations: The Slave Narrative of a Nineteenth-Century Virginian
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These are generally old fellows with white heads and red faces, addicted to port wine and Hessian boots, who from some cause, real or imaginary — generally the former, the excellent reason being that they are rich, and their relations poor — grow suspicious of everybody, and do the misanthropical in chambers, taking great delight in thinking themselves unhappy, and making everybody they come near, miserable.
Sketches by Boz
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I hyperventilate when they come near me with the needle.
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Or to come nearer home, recall the pretty, brightish, smug little people who are made with inimitable skill to illustrate the sawdust stuffing of middle-class democratic society.
The Five of Hearts
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They are so tensed up, they become near nervous wrecks.
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As her parting shot she warned Pete never to come near her again.
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Some children lose their 20/20 vision about age eight or nine when they become nearsighted.
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Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.
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The segment's operating income nearly sextupled year-to-year and was up 90% on-quarter as equipment utilization surpassed peak 2008 levels.
Halliburton Net Jumps 83% on North American Business
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Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s net income nearly doubled in the first quarter, but in most respects the chip maker failed to match the latest financial performance of archrival Intel Corp.
AMD's Financial Results Fail to Match Intel
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Strawberries must come near the top of the list.
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We have had two hard days on the water and I have come nearly to the limit of my endurance.
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We have had two hard days on the water and I have come nearly to the limit of my endurance.
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These days, high-throughput screening has become nearly synonymous with microarray technology.
The Scientist
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Presently, when I had come near to being comfortable, there chanced a lightsome step upon the floor behind me, and, turning, I discovered that Mistress Madison was surveying me with a roguish and somewhat amused air.
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
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Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.
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And just as the economic principles of the trust are being applied to religious organizations, even so the stronger ethical principles that are moving the nations are inducing Christian white men to come nearer to their brethren in black, and to treat them more as _men_, _brethren_, than has ever been done before.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro
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The mermaids, dear creatures, had to be escorted home, but they felt safe, for their mermen brothers and daddies were so fierce that, except sharks, even the larger fish, such as porpoises and dolphins were afraid to come near them.
Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks
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I hyperventilate when they come near me with the needle.
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‘This was my seventh Challenge and I've come near each time, but never been a winner,’ a disappointed Smith lamented.
