Adverb : last June or thereabout. From Dictionary.com.
The country thereabout was then a vast wilderness. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
The tribes thereabout are Mahri, Gohi, and Salbani. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
Norton-street and the streets thereabout being formed. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
"And what number am I-- the twenty-first, or thereabout?". From Wordnik.com. [In Her Own Right] Reference
The premises and thereabout are owned by the Federal Land Bank. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
Poketown, or thereabout, had such a garden as the Days this spring. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
Kerreri hills were low and black, like most of the jebels thereabout. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
Hiram's garden was seventy by a hundred and forty paces, or thereabout. From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
The trees were all alike thereabout and easily mistaken one for another. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
It was, therefore, necessary for us to spend as little time thereabout as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War] Reference
Salem, and some places thereabout, to visit and build up their friends in the faith. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
At sixteen, or thereabout, on a visit to a relative, he catches his first sight of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
We have streets thereabout bearing the names of Cottenham, Coltman, Wightman, Patteson. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
I had nothing to do, and I had in my purse a hundred hardly earned dollars, or thereabout. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1] Reference
It was a very cold spring with mint growing beside it, as is common with springs thereabout. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
"Maybe thirteen or thereabout, ma'am, poor, small thing," he replied with a dash of fatherly love. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Tartaria, and the regions thereabout, from whence (as they say) they bring home great commodities. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
Brownlow-hill was so called after Mr. Lawrence Brownlow, a gentleman who held much property thereabout. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
Coast Survey party the sufficient depth thereabout in the lake, ordered the Clifton to follow the Sachem. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
The folds at Hleidargard were attacked by a gray bear; many such beasts were there far and wide thereabout. From Wordnik.com. [The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf A Contribution To The History Of Saga Development In England And The Scandinavian Countries] Reference
Picardie for the space of seauen yeares, or thereabout, and might not be restored so long as king Edward liued. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV] Reference
Since the Dutch abandoned Sambas, three sultans have reigned on this musnud (within fifty years, or thereabout). From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
The nature of the district thereabout is that of numerous round hills, separated from each other by deep valleys. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
And to the Red School-House, at five, crowded the men, ay, and the women and children, of Rangeley and thereabout. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
There are a great many mothers of fine families who have made such a speech at twenty or thereabout; and Phil knew it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
The Lad was seen at Sorel on Friday morning the 29th ult. and there is reason to believe they are both lurking thereabout. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
Jessup's has been the one Green Valley grocery store ever since the flood or thereabout, so venerable an establishment is it. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
Then, at the fifty-fourth minute, or thereabout, after the second hour, he caused us to be marched into our original position. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The thieves, on entering that asylum, hid their booty there, and in fear concealed themselves thereabout before the guards came. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
On Friday evening, the fashion industry unleashes its formal plea to the world's consumers to shop like it's 1985 ... or thereabout. From Wordnik.com. [Fashion's Night Out Year 2: Stores again lure customers to get registers ringing] Reference
My regt. was ordered down into a woody Hill near Red Hook to take Post that night to prevent any more troops from landing thereabout. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference
The officers of the king, however, on searching that asylum soon discovered the thieves concealed thereabout together with the plunder. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
It will thus be seen that from the 15 days 'passage or thereabout, of the earliest Atlantic steamers, we had got down in the days of the. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886] Reference
Pennsylvania Volunteers, 'after the State series of numbers, which began with 280 or thereabout; and the' First Regiment of the Pennsylvania. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It's a wild country, but I've made out to live thereabout for nigh onto fifteen year -- and the Professor's stood it for better than twelve. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
Then, with a great puff, the creature rolled partially on his side, and the ocean thereabout became tinged with the blood thrown out of its blow-hole. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
It threw a back somersault and landed again in the snow, tearing it up for yards around, the crimson tide from its wounds spattering everything thereabout. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
"He said there were bonny bright eyes in Jamaica and the towns thereabout, Margaret, and he kind o 'looked as though maybe he was wearying to be back there.". From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
On his face was the first smile that Dokesbury had seen there, and he awakened from his taciturnity and proffered much information as to the fishing-places thereabout. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
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