I was anigh at the Thing when that was settled last summer.
Gunnlaug said, "Beyond all things I desire that I might in such wise meet Raven again, that thou, father, wert not anigh to part us.
So spake he weeping, and his host let loose from every band, Until at last they draw anigh Cumæ's Euboean strand.
Never once been anigh the place; never seen it; never asks after it; never makes an inquiry about it.
We was all crushed up that close together, as the crew of the steamer fired into us, that a man couldn't tell who was next or anigh him.
And I saw that this did be surely one of those sweet Powers of Holiness, that did stand between our souls and some dread Power that came anigh to work our Destruction.
And truly it did go almost as Naani had told to me; so that I was very sure in all my being that I was in verity come anigh to the hidden Refuge.
Yet chiefly did I mind to leave the water, that I should come no more anigh unto that House of Silence; for the water did go that way.
And surely a great fear came upon me; for I perceived that we did come among the Monsters, or that one came anigh to us.
I saw that the Maid did beanigh to me, and did be yet naked; and did pant, and pusht hard and desperate with a great pole, which did be surely that one which I had cut when that the Humpt Men came upon us.
I did seem surely anigh unto it, truly was it still far away in the night; and I came not indeed near to it until that I was gone onward again for three hours more.
Beside her sat the Alderman, his face sober enough, but not as one in heavy sorrow; and anigh him was another chair as if someone had but just got up from it.
For as for me, when I saw thee, thou wert close anigh me, so I knew thee to be no Dusky Man; but they would see the glitter of thine arms from afar, and to them all weaponed men are foemen.
So now with good hearts the Host of Burgdale turned their faces toward their well-beloved Dale; and they made good diligence, so that in three days' time they were come anigh the edge of the woodland wilderness.
And she stood anigh and spake to him winged words: "Rouse thee, son of Peleus, of all men most redoubtable!
Yet for all this disregarded he not the bidding of Menelaos, but set him to run, when he had given his armour to a noble comrade, Laodokos, who close anigh him was wheeling his whole-hooved horses.
Hadst thou no fear of the fierce-breathing Achaians, thy bitter foes that are hard anigh thee?
Hector of the glancing helm beareth it on his shoulders in triumph, yet not for long, I ween, shall he glory therein, for death is hardanigh him.
I never see nawbody take her away: nor nawbody come anigh the house, all the time as I were in it.
And then we gets crossed, like two dogs a-coursing, by the other party’s track, with his nose up in the air the very same as if he never come anigh us.
I should go up and fetch her away from them all, and let none of them come anigh her.
But down below, amidst of the throng, stood two neighbours somewhat anigh to the window; and quoth one to the other: "See thou!
So the Lady cast herself down on the green grass anigh the water, while Walter blew the hounds in and coupled them up; then he turned round to her, and lo!
He drew anigh to her, and saw that she was nought so sad of countenance as the last time she had met him, but flushed of cheek and bright-eyed.
I have done: I bade thee to-night's meeting because I saw that there was one anigh whom I must needs beguile.
Does he think I would ever let him come anigh me, if it wasn't to turn him inside out?
Dree quarters of a score I've had, and not one on 'em come anigh me!
And the worst of it was, that he had sternly resolved, with haughty sense of right and hearty scorn of a previous slip towards backsliding, that none of this weakness should ever, even in a vision, come anigh him any more.
Yea," said Ralph, "but if the riders of Utterbol areanigh us, shall we light a candle for them to show them the way?
He drew his men together and looked round for Ursula, and saw that the Sage had brought her up anigh him, and there she sat a-horseback, pale and panting with the fear of death and joy of deliverance.
Yea," quoth Richard; "and seest thou on the first of the little hills beyond the river, a great grey tower rising up and houses anigh it?
Wise man of Swevenham, see to it that my beloved is anigh me to-day, for where I am, there will be safety.
Ralph was nothing loth, for besides that he loved master Clement, and that his being in company was like having a piece of his home anigh him, he hoped to hear some tidings concerning the Well at the World's End.
And she abode his coming back at Richard's house anigh the water.
And there came a robin hopping over the leaves anigh them, for in that wood most of the creatures, knowing not man, were tame to him, and feared the horses of those twain more than their riders.
What was Jim Wickenden gettin' at when I said he'd set his stack too near anigh the brook?
At the time of felling I could not come anigh him, by reason of an accident; and I had some words with this boy about it, which kept me away ever since that time.
The biggest waterspout that ever came down from the mountains could never come anigh the mill, but go right down the valley.
People who would not come anigh us, when the Doones were threatening with carbine and with fire-brand, flocked in their very best clothes, to see a lady Doone go to church.
Let not any dare To draw anigh this tent; for here Adelchi Is sovereign; and no one but Adelchi's father And the meek minister of divine forgiveness Have access here.
So, and in no other wise, Has been paid a fitting price For that Atli, who of yore, Lay dead-slain anigh his door.
Grettir was talking with Thorbiorn, nor lacked there words of the biggest on either side; but withal Illugi chanced to look aside, and saw a man drawing anigh them.
It is her way thus to revile all who come anigh her.
My wife will die of terror if she hears but a whisper of the distemper being anigh us," remarked the Master Builder, with a sigh and a look of uneasiness.
Joan could not help saying, "Are women imps o' darkness then, that they must not comeanigh a dying bed?
And high time, Hasn't beenanigh them this three years, by all accounts.
But even if it is, he may turn off before he comes anigh his birthplace.
My father saved you from the plague, when none other would come anigh you; and was ever your friend.
All the world is so sick of her hands, that her very kinsfolk will not venture themselves anigh them.
Aha, there be never a vagrant, gipsy nor beggar dare come anigh in Sir Richard's time.
Aw, and middling few could come anigh him," the people used to say.
On a dangerous spot it stood, and therefore none would come anigh it.
Upstood the Earls of Siggeir, and each man drew anigh And deemed his time was coming for a glorious gain and high; But for all their mighty shaping and their deeds in the battle-wood, No looser in the Branstock that gift of Odin stood.
Or e'en in these peaceful acres anigh to the hands of all?
Then up rose the elder of days with a great and bitter cry And lifted the head of the fallen, and none durst come anigh To hearken the words of his sorrow, if any words he said, But such as the Father of all men might speak over Baldur dead.
He smiled, and his eyes languid with the fever sought out Margery, who would not come anigh whilst I was with him.
I did it, shamefacedly enough, being but a foul and ragged vagabond unfit to have her come anigh me.
When he sent me away he was all right, and not sitting anigh the edge.
But how could the beetle-powder have got anigh the children out of my pocket, sir?
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