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• "I damn near forgot." He pulled an envelope from his jacket.
• The star grew--it grew with a terrible steadiness hour after hour, a little larger each hour, a little nearer the midnight zenith, and brighter and brighter, until it had turned night into a second day.
• Fastening one end of this at that point of the trunk of the tree which was nearest the peg, he unrolled it till it reached the peg and thence further unrolled it, in the direction already established by the two points of the tree and the peg, for the distance of fifty feet …
• The sun is low, the night is near, …
• As when a sick man very near to death Seems dead indeed, …
• The ship nears the land.
• The voyage was near completion.
• Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
• It shied, balked, and whinnied, and in the end he could do nothing but drive it into the yard while the men used their own strength to get the heavy wagon near enough the hayloft for convenient pitching.
• This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
• He entered the inn, and asking for dinner, unbuckled his wallet, and sat down to rest himself near the door.
• There are habitable planets orbiting many of the stars near our Sun.
• The fire was almost dead, the chamber near dark.
• He served great Hector, and was ever near, / Not with his trumpet only, but his spear.
• Thinking about those pounds and pence, I near forgot my wound.
• ...he hears for certain that the Queen-Mother is about and hath near finished a peace with France....
• Sir John Friend had very near completed a regiment of horse.
• I'm near-sighted.
• the nearest way
• the near ox; the near leg
• The two words are near synonyms.
• The end is near.
• a near escape
• a version near to the original
• a near friend
• She is thy father's near kinswoman.