One season in Alaska I came close upon a party of seven mountain goats in the head of a little canyon.
They quickly gave it up, for in each case the bear early discovered the trap--came close to it and then avoided it.
When he came close, his mouth assumed the bell shape, and he began to cough violently.
He came close to the large doors, one of which stood slightly ajar, and looked in.
A slight flush had mounted his cheek by the time he had run the gauntlet between these women; but, passing on through the chancel arch, he never paused till he came close to the altar railing.
The noise approached, came close, and a figure was apparently on the point of gliding past her when some- thing tugged at her skirt and pinned it forcibly to the ground.
Our canoe was, as I have said, ahead of all the others, when suddenly a canoe, which was crossing the river from the left bank, came close to us.
Each Ashira, as if by instinct, came close to me for protection.
He came close to me, and whispered the word ngego (leopard).
The noise approached, came close, and a figure was apparently on the point of gliding past her when something tugged at her skirt and pinned it forcibly to the ground.
He came close to her, trying to decipher her face in the moonlight.
He came close to her, laid his arm timidly round her shoulders, bent his cheek to hers.
He came close to her again and pleaded, by the memory of her child, of their father--that she would yield, and go away with him at once.
He had the eyes, nose and brain of a fox, while perhaps the rest of him, heart and soul, came close to being just plain hog.
With his finger upon his lips, his air surcharged with mystery, he came close to her.
Without more ado he came close to the rock upon which she sat looking down at him with demure eyes, swept her off into his arms and kissed her before he put her down.
He came close up to the dauntless four, and then, to their amazement, he passed straight through them and reappeared on the other side.
Presently it came close to him again, and in the centre he saw a grinning old hag, upon whom he seized.
He came close to Cynthia and handed the fruits to her.
As I came close to the Bo's'n's heels I saw him leap aside, as if he had been stung, and strike into the wood with a howl as if in anguish.
At last, after a couple of hours that were the most pleasurable we had passed for many days, we came close to the island, and could see that the colonists were all crowded together upon the beach, waiting to receive us.
When we came close enough we saw that the island seemed in all respects to be a more delectable spot than that island on which chance had first cast us.
She was looking out at the island when I came close, and there was so much noise aboard and beyond that she did not hear my coming till I stood beside her, and called her name into her ear.
It takes a long time to tell, but the thing itself took longer to happen, for it must have been fully an hour after we first noted the raft before it came close to the shore of our island.
The house looked respectable at a distance—a large square building, cased in blue slates to defend it from storms,—but when we came close to it the outside forewarned us of the poverty and misery within.
When I came close to the houses, I could not but regret a want of loveliness correspondent with the beauty of the situation and the appearance of the village at a little distance; not a single ornamented garden.
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