But that nearness is better than farness I know: 122. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Other times, it brings hurt, because that nearness is not near enough. From Wordnik.com. [If Prayers Were Horses, Grievers Would Ride - Her Bad Mother] Reference
He was like a child coming back to the sense of an enveloping presence: her nearness was a breast on which he leaned. From Wordnik.com. [The Touchstone] Reference
With that animal instinct of nearness, which is neither sight, nor smell, my favorite broncho put forward his ears and whinnied sharply. From Wordnik.com. [Lords of the North] Reference
(Why should we limit this "nearness" to the Second Advent?). From Wordnik.com. [The Kneeling Christian] Reference
Yet nearness is of no avail when he. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
This is a nearness which is sanctified from the comprehension of the minds. From Wordnik.com. [Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas] Reference
I simply felt it in a kind of nearness -- as if I couldn't get away from you. From Wordnik.com. [Sanctuary] Reference
The canny Scot with his beautiful "nearness" lives in legend and story in a thousand forms. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen] Reference
Indeed he later denies that any sense can be made of the notion of nearness to the truth (1970a. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Kuhn] Reference
But now suddenly the being of each shook and called to the other in wild need of the nearer nearness which is comfort and help. From Wordnik.com. [Robin] Reference
Barrackpore by reason of its nearness to Calcutta. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Most people object to the physical nearness of others. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference
And so I must practise the belief in God's compassionate nearness. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
He pulled up a chair and sat next to her, his nearness untroubling. From Wordnik.com. [Paper Hearts] Reference
Duncan hastened to her side, but she took no notice of his nearness. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Woman] Reference
The summers are cool, owing to the nearness of the arctic ice-fields. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
He was vaguely conscious of an unwarranted satisfaction in the nearness of this pixy. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Yetta showed the nearness of tears, but Renestine set to work to extricate themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Immigrant] Reference
It was a typical New England village, the nearness of it to New York not having spoiled it. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
They remained quietly thus, Creed drinking in new life from her nearness, from her dearness. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
"Draw me nearer, blessed Lord," until in nearness to Thee I find my peace, my joy, and my crown. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
A government wholly verbal must be conceded to have required this proximity and nearness of access. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
Claire flushed at his nearness, realizing with a start that her speeding heart had nothing to do with fear. From Wordnik.com. [Paper Hearts] Reference
It appeared many times the size he had seen it at the time of his death, on account of its relative nearness. From Wordnik.com. [The Jameson Satellite] Reference
Chances are that our contestants live in pleasant communities, surrounded by the nearness of family and friends. From Wordnik.com. [Richard (RJ) Eskow: Come on Down -- It's Time to Play "Social Security Survivor"!] Reference
The signal of another steamship is a warning of the one; the answering echo announces the nearness of the other. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
A crape band should be worn around the hat, its width being determined by the nearness of the relative mourned for. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Good Manners; a Guide to Polite Usage for All Social Functions] Reference
And the best indicator of that vibrancy is our nation's nearness, or not, to full and fairly compensated real employment. From Wordnik.com. [Leo Hindery, Jr.: Third World America : America's New Must-Read] Reference
I tuned left, then right into South Street, sensing the nearness of the Thames and a related rise in the value of property. From Wordnik.com. [Running London (A Marathon Endeavour): Leg 3 - Hounslow West to Kew Gardens] Reference
And the words he fought sleepily to remember must have been born of his nearness to the growling monsters within the caravan. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
Another sweet moment of nearness and the misty white figure beside him would fade into the darkness forever, pass forever out of his sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
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