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That must be a jacamar, " said Herbert, trying to get nearer. "

Tom said the earth is nearer to the sun in summer, but the teacher said he was talking through his hat.

Indeed, despite his own heterodoxy, Angel often felt that be was nearer to his father on the human side than was either of his brethren.

The eyes in man are, in proportion to his size, nearer to one another than in any other animal.

The deepest sediments were laid down in the distant past, while more recent sediments were nearer the surface.

The terrible motor-car drew slowly nearer and nearer, till at last he heard it stop just short of him.

As he grew nearer, he noticed that the local native kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the water.

though he did not know how to economize, and brought the end nearer by a week when he gave his sister Marian five dollars for a dress.

The nearer I got to the house the more agitated I grew; and on catching sight of it I trembled in every limb.

One day, he motioned for her to come nearer.

Another pattern in this Olympic games was that the real strength between the nations was getting nearer, so it valued in its watching.

She went nearer and nearer to the land. She often stayed just stayed just outside one of the rooms and looked in at the young prince.

The day before she died I bathed her with my sister and washed her hair as she was being transferred to the community hospital nearer home.

"What did you say, Ginger bread Man? " said the fox. "Come a little nearer. I cannot hear you. "

One day, when he came to, he motioned for her to come nearer.

A figure got out, wearing a hoodie, this sort of slipped down and as he got nearer it became apparent to me it was David Beckham.

At heart all of you can express your love in such a way, and that will be a step nearer to finding the Christ Self within.

As I drew nearer , the lead wolf raised its head once more but this time let out a loud howl .

As the sound of fight grew nearer, I could tell there were quite a few dogs mixed up in it.

once knew a man, a black man, who told me he had been brought up in a village so far from the nearer town he had to walk a day to reach it.

His dark beautiful face, nearer to hers than it had ever been before, was looking at her with beseeching tenderness.

So he came nearer, and couched in the shallow water, and leaned his head upon his hand and listened.

The apron did not dry quickly enough to suit me, so I drew nearer and threw it right over the hot ashes.

But in the last few days, as the time drew nearer, she had reflected less and less of her early enthusiasm.

From a distance it was like tearing a cloth; nearer, it sounded like rain on a tin roof and close up it was just a long crash after crash.

For we all knew, that when the boat came nearer the shore, she would be DASH'd in a thousand pieces by the breach of the sea.

He moved nearer the edge, stood up, and with a vigorous sweep of his arm, cast out the line.

The fourth sister was more timid; she remained in the midst of the sea, but she said it was quite as beautiful there as nearer the land.

We could have been very glad they would have come nearer to us, so that we might have fired at them.

She was staring absently, thoughtfully; on a nearer view I could have certified she had been crying.

It is all bringing our open contact with so much nearer, but we will still approach it through your diplomatic channels.

"What, Monsieur Pierre! You think assassination is greatness of soul? " Said the little princess, smiling and moving her work nearer to her.

He sat down on the chair after he had pushedthe table nearer to the wall.

It comes nearer to the engines with which man has 'conquered' the air, as he boasts.

As they came nearer, they saw that it was a tiny dwarf with an old, withered face and a long, white beard.

and I saw myself, if I ventured nearer, dashed to death upon the rough shore, or spending my strength in vain to scale the beetling crags.

Behind the sands, the darkness is coming. As the blood is in the wind, it's being nearer. Don't stop, or you will lost yours.

All that we need to do. Be we low or high, is to see that we grow, nearer the sky.

As we got nearer to the turn of the land, reefs began to be seen here and there on our very path.

It looks to me as if you two, far from growing nearer, are snapping the bonds that hold you together, one after another.

As I drew nearer, I saw it to be the figure of a woman.

R is the set of all points within the triangle ABC which are nearer to B than to A and whose distance from C is less than CB.

"This is not going to be the end of Bright Food's ambitions, " said a person close to the talks. "It's nearer the beginning. "

As she came nearer he saw that her right arm was in a sling, not noticeable at a distance because it was of the same colour as her overalls.

We were approaching our destination; They are drawing near; The enemy army came nearer and nearer.

' Here is where you are! If you can't get from here to where you want to be, you can at least get from here to somewhere much nearer to it.

Instead of saying that man is a creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

The nearer it got to the time when it seemed most likely that she would give me an answer, the more I regretted having written.

Yes, you have heard this many times but it does draw nearer and with a number of options in mind, we know it cannot be delayed much longer.

On coming nearer, I saw it was not a man who had trodden on the twig and snapped it, but a bird, and I felt pleased.

Or it might be nearer the truth to say that they are least dependant on thrills for their happiness.

but when he came nearer and the door opened the din grew louder, and changed into distinct sounds of shouting, abuse and laughter.

The Hispaniola was laid a couple of points nearer the wind, and now sailed a course that would just clear the island on the east.

In her opinion the sloppiness and corner-cutting now being revealed is down to management failures much nearer the top of the supply chain.

Nearer the door, the Queen's Hand was attacking a brace of 'capons, sucking the meat off the bones and washing down each bite with ale.

That will bring you a step nearer to the Creator, and all that can be possibly imagined will bring you utter and complete bliss.

He said he wished he lived nearer his work .

out of his face. Wherever he was, Filch must know a shortcut, because his soft, greasy voice was getting nearer.

The enemy, whooping and screeching as they ran from bush to bush, were getting nearer and nearer.

Tonight only a faint blur of a few nearer lights penetrated the almost-opaque curtain of wind driven snow.

The light in the north still glimmered, but it was apparently no nearer to the boat.

Nearer to the close of polls the Republican also saw Iraq, Namibia, Congo, Sudan, Algeria and a few other countries offer him support.

'I am not afraid of you, ' said the child, drawing nearer. 'But I want to know what they have done with my Mama. '

I cannot hear you, " said the fox. " Come nearer and talk in my ear.

The children would sing in piping Spanish, high-pitched and pure; they would sing "Nearer My God to Thee" in Quechua, very fast.

Following the nearer steps of autumn, tree by tree, the whole leaves getting red from the top of each leaf to its bottom.

It was a place of heathenism and superstitious rites, to be inhabited by men nearer of kin to the rocks and to the wild animals than we.

The channels that ran through the nearer caves were well-known, but shallow, and it didn't pay to risk tearing out the bottom of your boat.

The discovery of shallow-water fossils indicates that the guyots were once much nearer the surface of the ocean.

Mercury is called an "inferior planet" because its orbit is nearer to the Sun than the Earth's.

hands , who was not so far up , was , in consequence , nearer to the ship , and fell between me and the bulwarks.

I thought something might happen on the final whistle and I would be better placed nearer the halfway line.

As always keep your eyes firmly on the future that promises to lift you out of your present difficulties, as it draws nearer each day.

Mrs Crick's mind kept nearer to the matter in hand.

I am SaLuSa from Sirius, and get a little more excited as each week passes by, as we in turn get a nearer to open contact with you.

As he gets nearer to the pulsing sphincter of a mouth, he starts to hack at the gas bag overhead.

Each step brought him nearer to London, farther from his own sober inartistic life.

No chance of me locking myself away for the day, bemoaning the fact that I am one year nearer to death!

But in subtle ways, Beijing was beginning to feel nearer.

The thought cheered him. It seemed to draw him nearer to Her. He began comparing himself with the students.

the further forward and the nearer to the enemy he went , the more orderly and cheerful he found the troops.

The sun is much nearer to us than any other star.

As Christmas drew nearer, her desire for a bicycle seemed to fade-- or so we thought, as she didn't mention it again.

But the other half of her heart and soul was filled with something else -- a later, fuller, nearer influence.

So the children came timidly towards the fire and the lamb and dove drew nearer.

This brings us an important step nearer to being able to prevent the birth of children with a particular type of inherited disease.

The sun is much nearer to us than any other star. That is why it looks the biggest and brightest of all the stars.

Posterior (Dorsal, Behind) Nearer to the back of the body is posterior. Dorsal is interchangeable with posterior.

going near or nearer to a place The enemy ran away at our approach.

It comes nearer to the engines with which man has 'conquered' the air.

i shall always be your sincere friend , without any inclination to nearer intimacy , when you become my sister.

In fact the earth is actually a bit nearer to the sun during the winter.

And as the day of my death comes nearer, I feel the need to write, to explain to you how my life of crime began.

A few of the nearer flying mountains are visible a few miles off, among the clouds.

With a mere tilt of his gun, he quickly dissuades anyone tempted to draw nearer to the base.

Her nephew, who had come up to Vevay expressly to see her, was therefore More attentive than those who, as she said, were nearer to her

Slowly, he moved nearer to me, but just then the first wild man began to get up from the ground.

The children's excitement is mounting as Christmas gets nearer.

But the book takes on the feel of a long, not especially revelatory, magazine article as the author gets nearer to the most recent events.

At the summit of high mountains it is not so warm as one height think though it is nearer to the sun.

The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid nearer and nearer the sill of the world.

The sky high, but the heart and the distance nearer.

On his nearer approach I saw a little moustache made all the fairer by a good many white hairs.

I talked to a New York University professor who has researched how people's reactions change as they get nearer to a situation.

Nearer our own time, the English theologian Dean Inge has doubted "whether anyone can be an orthodox theologian without being a platonist"

So breath awareness was used by Buddha as a means of coming nearer and nearer to the center.

Yet it is you, yourself, under all your layers of false identity that cause this event as you approach ever nearer to the Earth.

On this green hill I am nearer than I have been yet to realization of the difference between war and peace .

and, having dissected and learned the anatomy of beauty, he was nearer being able to create beauty itself.

Wilson with a spoon, he held up one finger and motioned me to come nearer.

In other words, the remoter planets are attracted by the sun with less force than those nearer to him.

As the voice came nearer, I saw a group of indigenous people running towards me, and of course I happily ran forward to greet them.

Upon their surface fell other waves, which in their turn became stone, but a step nearer the center of the lake.

"Be careful on your way home, " Mary said to Helen. "I would be happier if your houses were nearer. "

In fact the earth is actually a bit nearer to the sun during our winter.

But at last a day came when the Lion was nearer still and the little mother Jackal was frightened about to death.

All issues apart form First Contact draw nearer and that gives our allies every opportunity to push for an early outcome.

Those who, in the past, were able to use their power to hammer all opposition are in full retreat, bringing disclosure ever nearer.

The next close encounter with an asteroid is not expected until 2028, when a rock called 2001-WN5 will come nearer still.

And Longfor Century differs with other villas, only in that it's nearer to the sky.

I know not from what distant time thou art ever coming nearer to meet me . Thy sun and stars can never keep thee hidden from me for aye .

Giap funnels tens of thousands of Vietcong troops through these tunnels as the tet offensive draws nearer.

The light came nearer and nearer and suddenly Joe saw that it was a spaceship.

No woman was ever nearer to her mate that I am ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh.

Would you mind changing places with me so that I can be nearer to the fire?

He lives in a town nearer to Shanghai than I.

Nothing that can happen to you will be lasting, and at a point that comes nearer each day we shall be allowed to enter your lives.

Nearer-term, however, it would have to divert gas from west to east, losing profits along the way.

As the Mid-Autumn Festival draws nearer, each major supermarket and online store launches its own brand of moon cakes.

The company really needs some good news after the 40nm debacle(s) of late, and today's killing doesn't bring anyone nearer to that point.

he is nearer to his opponents' goal line than both the ball and the second last opponent.

And as Mr. Buffett is 80, his years of producing spectacular investment returns are nearer the end than the beginning.

The mounted men followed him but did not draw any nearer.

The delivered price is no greater than the delivered price quoted by a competitor located nearer to the buyer.

Marius' chair approached still nearer . Thenardier took advantage of this to draw a long breath . He went on.

Dean Lyons calls this sort of activity "path-bending leadership" , because it will bend that 45-degree line back nearer to the horizontal.

He tugged at the thin ropes, and nearer and nearer came the circle of flat corks, and the net rose at last to the top of the water.

As their numbers declined, those who remained took refuge in warmer parts of Europe, nearer the Mediterranean.

When you see the circles by cross-eye on the contrary, the circles look nearer and it is called with "crossing method" .

If what you are doing now is not getting you nearer to your goals, fine tune and change your strategies.

A long valley opened ahead and great snow-mountains, now much nearer, stood up against the sky.

Bring it nearer to let me see it better.

These writers seemed to feel that America could be shaped nearer to the hearts of those who lived in it.

Nearer he came and nearer! Her face was like a light!

And that day is drawing nearer - catching such illnesses at an early stage, saving lives, reducing procedures and healthcare costs.

The train came nearer. And then the train stopped, very near the taxi, and some, guards jumped off.

They carefully went nearer. They thought the black thing was the monster. They went nearer and nearer.

A new arithmetic is proposed to make the point nearer the center with greater weight.

Every time the fish tried to jerk itself from the hook, the dwarf was dragged nearer to the water's edge.

With the popularity of computers, people from all over the world become nearer by using the Internet to communicate with each.

The climate is not the same throughout the biome because there are places nearer to the equator than others.

"Master Shelton, " replied Hugh, "I dare not take you nearer down, for your own sake now. "

Call me again nearer to the time of the meeting.

This will be nearer to her entry-level loan ceiling than the loan ceiling she enjoyed immediately before going into the flex-loan.

Retail investors are advised to make early application to avoid congestion nearer the closing date of the offer period.

When he was placed on the chair, he jumped upon the table and said, "Now, push your little golden plate nearer, and we will eat together. "

You have power beyond your imagination, and as you get nearer to the end of this cycle, it will become more evident.

Explanation: One of the nearer supernovas of recent years was discovered last month in the bright nearby galaxy M100.

Lu Wanpeng, 30, one of the potential buyers on the tour, is more interested in an apartment nearer the city centre.

Mary came a step nearer to him, and her voice shook a little as she spoke.

Fuel oil is, in fact, the main refined product whose price is nearer the record high set during the boom of three years ago.

The invention recognises that alias problems tend to occur more at frequencies nearer to the Nyquist limit (half of the sampling rate).

Henceforth, did not have each other strangeness, some are nearer attentive.

Conclusion The morbility rate of malocclusion of resident in bronze age is lower than that of modern resident and nearer ages resident.

The rabbit becomes more confident and decides to take a nap, not knowing that its competitor is creeping nearer and nearer.

Commercial space tourism has taken a step nearer reality with the inauguration of the world's first spaceport in the desert of New Mexico.

All his corrections are sent in love, to purify thee, and to draw thee nearer to himself.

Even though it appears frozen when very distant from us, a black hole soon drops its icy stillness as it gets nearer.

A model like Figure 4 is nearer the truth: it shows a view of reading in which the reader can be seen approaching meaning actively.

Both disasters have however this in common: weeks after they happened, the experts are no nearer dealing with the root of the problem.

You will naturally become more discerning, and all of these changes will propel you nearer to becoming a Galactic Being.

When these victims feel the touch of love tangibly, they're nearer to the love extended by a Sovereign Creator of Heaven and Earth.

If he lived nearer, it would be easier.

Many traders may place their stops a few points nearer or further than the actual low price depending on their preferences.

One who was distant came near to me in the morning, and still nearer when taken away by night.

remind e. g. Please remind me again nearer to the time of the interview.

As seven o'clock drew nearer, Harry left the castle and set off in the dusk toward the Quidditch field.

FOR the convenience of my mother I moved nearer to her home.

Through the Law of Attraction whatever you are focussing upon you will bring nearer to manifestation.

and that night, when the shining sea was blotted out by blackness, he knew he was nearer to it by no more than four miles.

Consumers are more likely to view centrally located labels and nutrients nearer the label's top.

We've got the map. . . but we ain't no nearer to finding the valley. . . We're up a stump, and no mistake .

"Model employee" is probably nearer the truth than Merrill realises.

It will be different in a number of ways to the land battles. We will provide more detail nearer release.

roared Neville, who seemed beside himself, kicking and writhing as Bellatrix drew nearer to him and his captor, her wand raised.

Karen tensed and held her breath as she leaned nearer the open window.

It is nearer to us than any other heavenly body in space.

Sit nearer the front so you can hear better.

But dada laughed and said. "You are the silliest child I have known. If it came nearer, you would see how big the moon is. "

Through pathless woods she ran, but the sound of his pursuing feet ever grew nearer.

Nim observed a familiar face, moving nearer through the growing increasingly noisy throng of delegates.

The nearer US interest rates approach zero, the greater the incentive to move dollars into higher-yielding assets elsewhere.

The nearer the air above the water approaches saturation, the less rapid will be the net loss from water.

Some of the insects wander off to find fresh leaves, while others fall from the tree tops on to leaves nearer the ground.

It's no coincidence that most of the shortlist are from the Italian, Spanish and English leagues. We'll talk about it nearer the time.

AS THE mid-term elections creep nearer , few congressmen want to talk about impeaching George Bush.

We were, abundance over, worried about our nearer nots neighbours, whose farm were low lying and who were newcomingrs to the district.

He uses pictures which appear to move as you go nearer to or farther from them.

Oil is a fungible commodity so buying a distant barrel simply frees up a nearer one for someone else.

The nearer any government approaches to a republic the less business there is for a king.

Officially, nearly one in four South Africans is now jobless; the real number is probably nearer one in three. Inflation is running at 8%.

When you begin to feel love for every other soul, and it is reciprocated then you take a step nearer to Oneness that awaits you.

But on March 9th a report commissioned by Boris Johnson, the Conservative mayor of London, suggested that the figure is now nearer 725, 000.

It would have approached nearer to the idea of miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale.

At a town hall meeting Jan. 22, Abdelnour told about 500 of the firm's employees in Asia that they're nearer to that goal.

The smaller one is nearer, and we've never been there before.

But he believes the sun is farther at dawn and nearer at noon.

The smaller skimmers work from nearer the shore to about three to five miles out, where the oil is fairly dispersed.

And I felt the heats every jot as great here, and Greater too, being nearer the equinox.

The further off from England the nearer is to France-- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

Jesse veered slightly to his left, moving nearer to the old well.

The boat is nearer and nearer to the smallisland.

If that had been nearer, she would not have gone so soon.

Nearer came the red glow over the white pall which stretched into the darkness a round me.

Nothing could be seen, before or behind, except the mountains that grew ever nearer, towering before them.

Only the hope that the rescuers were getting nearer sustained the trapped miners.

If you would have to cross or drive on Double white lines with the solid line nearer to you.

but as we made nearer and nearer the shore, the land look'd more frightful than the sea.

The inner self approached nearer the attunement of the consciousness of the Christ presence.

You could get there this way, but it's nearer to go along Walt Street.

But no advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimetre nearer.

That light can sometimes become so distorted that it actually appears to ring the nearer galaxy.

Behold here is a paradox; the deep and high are nearer to one another than the mid-level to either.

Hiro folded his arms over his legs, drawing them nearer, and stared up at the hanging cross that now hung above both boys.

When we came nearer to the centre for senior citizens, one of the passengers asked the driver to wait.

High-income earners live on the outskirts of large cities while manual and lower-paid workers locate nearer the central area.

And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

One who was distant came near to me in the morning, and still nearer when taken awayhe by night.

As we creep nearer and nearer to cold weather, I thought I'd give you a quick update on my apartment-sized Victory Garden.

The most distant object for which an image can be formed on the retina is then nearer than infinity.

Something stirred in the porch; and, moving nearer, I distinguished a tall man dressed in dark clothes, with dark face and hair.

If either of you come half an inch nearer, we two will vanish and you'll be left here for good.

I moved here with my parents so I can be some nearer to the university.

And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.

Dark-clothed humans appear disgusted when they spot them from afar, and then, drawing nearer, suddenly beam smiles and benevolence.

As the Legion's final defeat draws ever nearer, stand proud in the knowledge that you have saved worlds without number from the flame.

They had learned how to carry their burdens, and their loads had become wings to carry them nearer to God.

The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them.

I have a feeling that the sight of this old man, whom death has overlooked, brings my own death that much nearer.

As the end of the game grew nearer, the crowd's excitement.

However, following a period of recuperation at Melwood, Torres is edging ever nearer to a first-team return.

Saal and his team found more water in the middle and less nearer the rims of the balls.

a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

The old man, on the other hand, had brought himself nearer to her level, or perhaps below it, by the revenge which he had stooped for.

Othello. It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.

Analysts estimated a valuation nearer 3 billion pounds, which is still more than one third of Barclays' market value.

Your increasing expectancy of major changes to get under way is bringing them nearer to manifesting.

They were nearer the level of the ancient Sumerians or of the Maya civilization of America.

Death is not nearer to the aged than to the newborn; neither is life.

it came nearer up the staircase , calling again.