The famous Burra Burra copper mine, discovered by a shepherd in 1844, is close to the town, while silver and lead ore is also found in the vicinity.
On a journey to Dresden in 1807 Kleist was arrested by the French as a spy, and being sent to France was kept for six months a close prisoner at Chalons-sur-Marne.
Notably he prevented Great Britain from declaring war against Peter's close ally, Denmark, at the crisis of the struggle.
It is employed at close quarters, or as a missile, and in time of peace serves as a walking-stick.
But this redaction is not the close of the textual history of the Koran.
Turn every alternate knittle and secure the remainder down by a turn of twine or a smooth yarn hitched close up, which acts as the weft in weaving.
The chief tributary from the Kafiristan hills is the Pechdara, which joins the riverclose to Chagan Sarai.
The end is bent close round the standing part till it forms a circle and a half, when it is securely seized at a, b and c, thus making a running eye; when taut round anything it jams the end.
Whether Archie did think thus or not, certain it is that presently he drew his chair close to his sister's, and laying one arm fondly on her shoulder.
It was a long, low, thatched building, close by a wood, a very humble dwelling indeed.
There is another potclose by the fire, and in this sweet potatoes are boiling.
The landscape was very wild, and very beautiful; but Archie got weary at last of its very loveliness, and was not one whit sorry when the afternoon halt was called under the pleasant shade of trees, and close by the banks of a rippling stream.
A moment more and the bull was tearing back towards the herd he had left, a stockman or two following close behind.
Somehow, I don't feel to need to pray so much, and to have the Lord Jesus so close to me.
It was one of the very villas he had often passed, in a beautiful place close by the water-side.
Elsie now took a footstool, and sat down close beside her invalid brother, stretching one arm across his chest protectingly; but she shook her head at Archie from her corner.
The men just lay down to sleep rolled in their blankets, with their arms close by their saddle pillows, two being told off to walk sentry in case of a sudden surprise.
The sunshine was so finding that they did not at first notice her in the shade there until they were close upon her.
After that, they spoke softly, as if one they had both loved lay dead somewhere close at hand.
She went round the house, walking softly, keeping close to the wall, to eavesdrop on the lovely, drowsy, kindly world.
That close bonnet can't be very comfortable when one's tired.
She rose from her bed and went to the window, and knelt down by it, pressing her face and the white bib of her apron close to the glass.
He held her close and kissed her and comforted her, and carried her over to the bed, entreating her to lie quietly and try to forget and sleep.
She cast down her eyes and stared at the floor so that none might see how close she was to tears.
He stood up and brought a close to the business interview, and was gripping Mr. Philip's hand, when a sudden recollection reddened his face.
But he wrested them away from her and closed them gently over her wrists, and forced her backwards towards the hearth, keeping his body close to her and shuffling his feet in a kind of dance.
The aeroplane began to close in with it, and Pariset suddenly became aware that he was closing in too rapidly, for the airship either stopped her engines or reduced their speed.
They were about fifty in number, at a distance no match for the machine gun, but if they were allowed to close up, especially if they got ahead, the occupants of the car would be at their mercy in the event of any sudden check.
In turning the horses for the journey back, Kenneth contrived to bring the drayclose against the wall, so that from his high seat he was able to look over.
Meanwhile one of the troopers had been edging his horse closeto the aeroplane.
Each time it wheeled he contrived to bring it close behind the rearmost horseman, like a sheep dog driving a flock, and Kenneth dropped a bomb to hurry the pace.
As it passed again over the causeway, Kenneth dropped another bomb, which fell close to the first.
Kenneth swerved to the right, and making a steep vol plane, swooped into the cornfield of a farmhouse close by the high road.
They might then close upon it and surround it without having to face that terrible machine gun again.
At the sight of this the three remaining men dashed to the open window and leapt out; the last of them, pausing to close the window, was winged by Pariset's flying shot.
Granger, standing close by the seat, lifted the revolver.
He learnt how the German infantry, covered by artillery, had advanced again and again in close formation, only to be hurled back by the fire from the forts and the trenches, followed up with the bayonet.
Next moment a small bomb fell close beside one of the lorries, throwing up a shower of dust and stones.
He boasted of a particularly cordial interview with the War Lord, who appears to take a close personal interest in underground operations.
Presently Joe's head appeared again as he climbed upon a boulder close to the edge of the cliff and peered around him.
Standing in plain view with the heavily-loaded shotgun ready, he awaited the charge, and at closequarters turned loose both barrels into the bear's chest.
Huddled in silent terror close to the farther wall of the little valley were about forty sheep, and near the beaten path were the remains of ten or a dozen carcases.
McKiernan did not want to begin the fight at such close quarters, and he was confident that the bear would back down and attempt to return to the brush at the foot of the spur if given time.
The heavy charges of shot at close range smash the Grizzly's interior works in a deplorable manner and he dies right away.
The Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington Territory are full of bears, and as the inhabitants seldom hunt them, the animals are disposed to be sociable and neighborly and wander about close to the settlements.
It was a tough fight and a close call and old Jim was laid up in his cabin for many a day afterward.
The trees were so tall and so close together that you couldn't see the tops and the sun never saw the ground.
In doing so, he had to jump toward the bear, but he preferred close quarters in the creek bed, where the water was knee deep, to a scrimmage in the brush.
Willis said that he was sure bears were close around us, if we could only see them, and I proposed to climb a tree on the other side of the clearing and get a good view of the surrounding thickets.
McKiernan stooped to recover the rifle barrel with which to beat the bear to death, and in doing so his head came close to the bear's.
In fact we could get through the thick brush and chaparral only on the trails made by bears, and we had to go carefully for fear of running upon a Grizzly at close quarters.
The stock of the rifle broke in McKiernan's hands and the barrel fell close by the bear, which had fallen upon the very edge of a steep slope at the side of the spur or knob.
He soon learned to keep his hind feet well under him and his body close to the ground, which left only his head and fore-legs to be defended from the ropes.
At theclose of the discussion Leo's doom was sealed.
You may take your oath old granny yonder has an eye on your pretty widow; and the Purcells are too close to the Bolderos not to have a dozen opportunities of meeting, for one that you and your precious George have.
The Americans could close their ports to food and raw material, and stop half our food and a large part of our trade at one blow.
Prisoners spoke of peace as having been promised as close at hand by their officers.
These were examples close at hand, but sprinkled about the well-won area I saw the puffs from other British batteries which, after a nocturnal journey, morning found close to the firing-line.
If one had fought it out at close quarters with a German and got his man, he made the incident into a dramatic episode for your edification.
Adam sat close while Kate ate her supper, then he helped her unpack her trunk and hang away her dresses, and then they sat on the porch talking for a long time.
At its close she walked back to the hotel with some of the other teachers stopping there, talked a few minutes in the hall, went to the office desk for mail, and slowly ascended the stairs, thinking intently.
The time flew, each day a repetition of yesterday's dogged, soul-tiring grind, until some days Kate was close to despair.
Maybe you think I wasn't hanging pretty close around that neighbourhood, myself!
A party of four, going to board close the school, with a woman they knew about, invited Kate to go with them and because she was strange and shaken by her experiences she agreed.
You know our house isn't very large, and close relatives fill it to bursting.
Mrs. Holt looked at Kate from head to foot inclose scrutiny.
Mrs. Bates lifted her gaunt form to very close six feet of height, looking narrowly at her daughter.
Hadn't you better bring matters to a close if you can, and let the Director know?
He sat down close beside her and leaned toward her.
George, did you, Oh, did you, close the sluice-gate when you came home?
On coming from the building she saw that she would be forced to pass close by the group of girls she had deserted and this was made doubly difficult because she could see that they were talking about her.
I closethese answers to the questions with a practical word to everyone that is here.
The Assyrian myth of Sargon, which is, indeed, very close to the Hebrew, may be the oldest form of all; but the very fact that the Hebrews located their story in Egypt shows that they knew it to have a home there in some fashion.
This is the one that breaks open the cloister, and the close walls that learning had dwelt in till then, and shuts up the musty books, and bids that old droning cease.
But there is a close rim of conventionalities about us still.
When he was Lord Chancellor, he built Verulam House close by the pond yard, for a place of privacy when he was called upon to dispatch any urgent business.
In December I was to go to Montreux for a couple of months; in March I was to return to Maytham and close it before leaving it finally.
The two gold threads are turned at the edge of the pattern, and brought back close to the last, and fastened in the same way.
In transferring old needlework it is necessary to cut away the ground close to the edge of the embroidery.
If that first crow gets away from you while it's dark, there'll be so many others to follow it that I shan't be able to close an eye for even a cat-nap.
She tried to close her ears to the boasts of her neighbors on either side of her, that they were going to win the first prize.
A radiant light fell on her face, but did not touch the Phantom; for, though close beside her, it was dark and colourless as ever.
The Chemist wentclose to him, for the first time, and took the purse, and turned him by the arm, and looked him in the face.
Redlaw, keeping her close at his side, turned his face towards the speaker, and there was sorrow in it.
She visualized the hurried run for safety to camp, the swift disposal of the treasure in the river because of the close pursuit.
The atmosphere was oppressively closeand warm, and the oilskins that Moya wore seemed to weigh heavily upon her.
She had taken a chair at the far end of the long parlor close to a French window opening upon a porch.
We guessed the hold-up would be close to the bank, because the treasurer of the association might take any one of three streets to drive in from the fair grounds.
Across the river two fishermen could be seen working down stream close to the opposite shore.
You passed close to me Wednesday night at the fork of Rainbow above the J K ranch.
Never before had they come so close to its raw, ugly seams.
To create a diversion she whipped back her line for a cast so that the flies snapped close to his ear.
After a short sharp fight he drew the fish close enough to net the struggler.
A little tremulousness of the tongue when protruded may often be detected before the close of the first week.
At the close of the war the sale of army horses distributed the infection widely through all the States, North as well as South.
Cutaneous affections of a non-specific character are sometimes observed to result from vaccination; that is to say, they follow close upon its performance, without any other known exciting cause.
The eruptive fevers are always readily distinguishable at the period of invasion from typhoid fever, and the mistake of confounding them with the latter disease may generally be avoided by a close study of the character of the pyrexia.
Toward the close of an epidemic the character of the disease usually undergoes a change.
The skin is generally hot and dry, except toward the close of bad cases, when it may be cool and bathed in a profuse sweat.
Toward the close of the year 1837 the disease broke out anew in Pali, and raged until the spring of the following year.
A return of natural appetite is one of the best signs toward the close of any acute attack of illness.
The kidneys commonly act regularly and normally during the first days, any serious impairment of their functions being rare before the close of the first week.
Upon post-mortem of patients who had died of rubeola these germs were found in the lungs and liver, and, particularly, close to the walls of the capillaries.
The rash of measles begins to fade at the close of the third or in the fourth day after its appearance, that of scarlet fever not till from the sixth to the eighth day.
Toward the close of the attack the cough becomes less urgent and loses its spasmodic character.
Hiccough is occasionally observed toward the close of grave cases, and is justly regarded as a bad symptom.
Meanwhile the watcher outside glides close to the wall of the building, listening here and there, as he, too, approaches the huge hay pile.
This looks like business;" he began, dragging a chair forward, and seating himself close to me.
The buggy was directly before the gate and so close that it could not have been opened, as it swings outward.
The man, who probably drove close to the fence for that purpose, could see him quite distinctly, and from his attitude and occupation knew him to be alone.
He is still in a condition to need close attention and careful medical aid; with these, we think, he will recover.
He or they drove quite close to the fence and stopped the horses, so that they were hidden from the view of any one who was nearer the house.
Suppose Bethel to have stood on the steps outside, was the gun fired from behind that evergreen just beyond, and close to the gravel walk, or from some other point equally distant?
I passed in and added myself to the large group of men huddled closetogether near the middle of the long store, and talking earnestly and angrily, with excitement, fiercely, or foolishly, as the case might be.
By-and-by I close the book and replace it upon the table.
System's the word," said Carnes, jerking his chair close to the table, upon which he planted his elbows.
As she leaned to the right of the urn, to look squarely at her father, her face was close to Mrs. Mitchell, who noted its pallor and an ominous curve in the thin lips.
She stood with her hands folded on her breast, so close to him that he noted how wan and drawn the young face had grown, how measureless the misery in eyes peering hopelessly into futurity.
His handsome face, radiantly happy, bent close to hers, but she shrank away from him.
It will not be so hard if I can look into your face once more, and know that your dear hand will close my eyes as I go down into my grave.
Eglah, you chance to have the fruit I covet close to your hand.
Waiting one day until the nurses left the room, he drew from his pocket a photograph of Leighton, leaned down, and held it close to her.
The purple curtain, caught back only during service, hung over the arch; but at one side a narrow aperture, close to the gilt organ pipe in the oratory, admitted outside light.
He took her face in his palms, bending close his handsome head, and a mist dimmed the sparkle in his magnetic eyes.
Close to him, having him apparently within touch, yet conscious always that a transparent obstacle divided them.
These mobile bastions wavered for a few seconds, filled up the breaches, and then returned to the charge in the same close formation as before.
All his comrades were not so fortunate, and at the close of the day the majority of the officers engaged, notably those of the second and third battalions of the 1st Regiment, were hors de combat.
We will closewith these simple, soldierly words, more eloquent than the most brilliant harangues.
A special compact was required, a peculiar state of grace; the miracle was only possible as the outcome of a close communion, and, to use the proper word, of a true spiritual fraternity between men and officers.
Pertus fell first, his leg shattered at the moment when he was carrying a group of farms close to Keyem; Lieutenant Hebert was sent with the eighth company to support him.
The Abbe had been asleep for an hour or two, when he was awakened by shotsclose at hand.
Shells were bursting quiteclose to our inn, the front of which was peppered with bullets.
It will require close application, and a great deal of sober thinking, to gain a clear conception of the nature of the relative pronouns, particularly the compound relatives, which are not easily comprehended by the young learner.
Before I close this subject, however, it is necessary farther to remark, that some transitive and intransitive verbs express what is called a mental or moral action; and others, a corporeal or physical action.
A mask never seems but a dirty face, and no matter how close you go is still a work of art; nor shall we lose by staying the movement of the features, for deep feeling is expressed by a movement of the whole body.
It is well to be close enough to an artist to feel for him a personal liking, close enough perhaps to feel that our liking is returned.
As poetry can do neither, the voice must be freed from this competition and find itself among little instruments, only heard at their best perhaps when we areclose about them.
Besides all this, the army of the sciences hath been of late with a world of martial discipline drawn into its close order, so that a view or a muster may be taken of it with abundance of expedition.
He hired a tailor to stitch up the collar so close that it was ready to choke him, and squeezed out his eyes at such a rate as one could see nothing but the white.
In winter he went always loose and unbuttoned, and clad as thin as possible to let in the ambient heat, and in summer lapped himself close and thick to keep it out {147b}.
Thomas Warton observes on the following passage its close resemblance to the speech of Panurge in Rabelais, and says that Swift formed himself upon Rabelais.
A hissing thunderbolt fell before the mill close by.
Are you so jealous of your comrade then, your own close companion?
Nor did they attack the man, peacefully squatting there, but when quite closeto him, stood still.
The two herdsmen recognised one another, as well as their horses, and quickening their trot drew close together.
A single, glorious June day is close to the full measure of our capacity for joy; but the heart can hold a month of melancholy and still ache for more.
Only folk of twenty and close to twenty live in Arden.
Here is one close to my face, out at the tip of a slender grass-stem, holding on with its fore legs and kicking out backward with its hind legs a tiny skein of web off into the air.
But I can plough--while the blackbirds come close behind me in the furrow; and I can be the spring.
Down this intestine, their points sticking through the slot, moved the tacks in single file to a spring-hammer close to the floor.
He could not comprehend this effort at all, and retired before the closeof the piece.
I will close my store, and then conduct you to Madame Morin, a lady who rents chambers.
He did notclose his eyes during the night,” said she to herself, “and he leaves me at this early hour.
