It came nearer, and resembled the sound of a brook in flood chafing within its banks; it came nearer yet, and was plainly distinguished as the galloping of a party of horse.
As he came nearer, he noticed a living butterfly sitting on the forehead of the sculptured councillor.
The other women, young and old, came nearer, and there was much jesting and laughter.
He came nearer; they were wooden posts, painted black, intended to fence in a vineyard.
As he came nearer, he greeted her, but neither of them uttered the contemplated speech.
But quickly it came nearer, nearer, like the sound of heavy footsteps.
But as he came nearer, his pale bones grew redder, and vapours floated woolly round his haggard form.
But as he came nearer, his pale bones grew redder, and vapors floated woolly round his haggard form.
He came nearer, and there lay a heap of gold on the ground, as though poured out from a measure.
When I came nearer, I could make out the boar, and I heard Bulka whining shrilly.
As he came nearer to the place he saw that they were his brothers, who had been playing all kinds of wicked pranks, and had squandered all their wealth.
Then he saw a girl who was going towards a small house, and when he came nearer, he saw that the maiden was young and beautiful.
They were having their way with him; and, perhaps, in this very complexity of his feelings he came nearer to being really and acutely himself than he had ever been in his life.
The Seats of the Mighty' came nearer to what might properly be called an historical novel than any other book which I have written save, perhaps, 'A Ladder of Swords'.
And now, as I came nearer, I was struck by a resemblance in his air and features to our unhappy father.
Yet as we came nearer, I observed an expression of the most tender anxiety, approaching to sadness, come over her brow.
As it came nearer to them the light went out, and the dark boat, with two gaunt figures at the oars, was seen for an instant wrapped in a funereal darkness, and then all vanished.
He hardly noticed it when it blew from afar, like the slight breeze that ruffles the surface of the sea; but, now that it came nearer, he remembered having heard it some evenings before.
When the zaptiehs came nearer, he called to them to turn back if they cared for their lives.
As we came nearer, it proved to be the head of a male Arctic three-toed woodpecker, who wears an orange patch on his forehead and shares with his undecorated spouse the pains and pleasures of incubation.
As we came nearer, he glided off like a little aeroplane, and we recognized the flight and the spotted buff waistcoat of the sparrow-hawk hunting meadow-mice.
So he came nearer, and couched in the shallow water, and leaned his head upon his hand and listened.
He did not seem to be keeping a very steady course, and when we came nearer, I saw clearly that I had not made a great mistake in supposing him to be very drunk.
Far from flying, he came nearer, smelt the poor animal as if he thought it was play, setting his fore-foot several times on the body of his comrade as if to induce him to get up.
As we came nearer, we could see that it had been built up close to a mimosa bush which lay between us and the circle of light shed by the burning brushwood.
We desired to know, naturally, why he dug in the earth of our island, and while he was very busy with his digging we came nearer to see what we could see.
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