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Example sentences for "come nearer"

  • To come nearer yet, our own parents by their offences, indiscretion and intemperance, are our mortal enemies.

  • In fact, while they were standing together near the conservatory, she crossed the front hall from one room to another, and cast a watchful glance back at them, as if she would have liked to come nearer, but hesitated to do so.

  • Come nearer, my son, that I may bless you, for I feel that I am dying.

  • Come nearer, pale face, for if you would flee I will dive in after you.

  • Come nearer, come nearer," she replied, "I cannot see you plainly.

  • But the stranger beckoned her faintly to come nearer, and said in tones of real gratitude, "Thank you a thousand times, Mistress Emily; I never thought to need such kindness at your hands.

  • Come nearer, come nearer," was the answer.

  • Boxall; "don't come nearer; we can easily reach you.

  • Come nearer, dear Kramer," said the countess.

  • Come nearer, dear Countess," said the queen.

  • Irma halted and beckoned to Baum, who had been following her, to come nearer.

  • The Chemist entreated Milly, by a gesture, to come nearer to him; and, as he listened looked in her face, as if to find in it the clue to what he heard.

  • Come nearer, 'Dolphus, and let me ease my mind, and tell you what I mean.

  • Come nearer, now, and let us shake hands.

  • They came within about a stone's cast, and then stopped, gazing at us with a look of vacant astonishment: Tupia exerted all his eloquence to prevail upon them to come nearer, but without any effect.

  • And the Soul answered, 'Come nearer, that I may speak with thee, for I have seen marvellous things.

  • Osman perceived this, and motioned to him to come nearer to his couch.

  • He slowly raised his hand, and beckoned to them to come nearer.

  • Come nearer, ye slaves, and seat yourselves behind that clump of rose-bushes.

  • My men,” said Martin Alonzo, raising his powerful voice, “come nearer.

  • Diego beckoned him to come nearer, and began in Latin, Juan listening attentively and with as much respect, almost, as the natives.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    civil administration; come about; come across; come again; come against; come alive; come among; come away; come back; come bride; come close; come forward; come hither; come quickly; come round; come soon; come tell; come through; come true; come uppe; comes down; comes from; depreciated paper; external force; hear what you have; speak evil