Her mother, after watching her for some time without speaking, ventured to steal her withered hand a little nearer to her across the table; and finding that she permitted this, to touch her face, and smooth her hair.
The men waited, not breathing; the officers stepped a little nearer.
Dan'l stepped a little nearer Noll, and said in a low voice: "His eye is gone, sir.
He bent a little nearer, while her eyes met his steadily; and his hands dropped and gripped her arms above the elbows.
Before we approach a little nearer to this great sight, let us consider the human forgiveness in a more definite embodiment--as between a father and a son.
Let us look a little nearer, and see in what the inheritance of the saints consists.
The fugitive permitted them to come a little nearer, and he watched them out of the corner of one eye.
If he would only come a little nearer," grimly thought the young forest runner, as he reloaded rapidly, "he might by the loss of his own life save the lives of many others.
He let them come a little nearer, and, as the country was now more open they saw him and uttered cries of mingled rage and triumph.
The others were continually creeping a little nearer and a little nearer on their blankets, and the moonlight which found new openings through the trees showed three more pairs of eyes sparkling with excitement.
He moved his chair deliberately a little nearer, took her hand and raised it to his lips.
Then why don't you bring your chair forward and come and sit a little nearer to me?
See, there goes your young nobleman; call him a little nearer, and let me examine him.
She was, however, merely giving a friendly signal to her nephew, till she might get a little nearer to his ears.
Her father would now be a little nearer to the Pastor's garden, ploughing and harvesting, and she should see him the oftener.
He leaned a little nearer to her and stretched out his arm as if to put it round her.
With each soft step the camel took they went a little farther from Beni-Mora, came a little nearer to that liberty of which Domini sometimes dreamed, to the smiling eyes and the lifted spheres of fire.
She drew her horse to one side, a little nearer to Androvsky's.
This object would remain stationary for a moment, and be then withdrawn--to appear again at another point, a little nearer to the house.
On putting this question, she approached a little nearer to the sentry-- as she did so, drawing her jewelled hand within the cloak, and letting the hood fall back from her head.
In this way he drew a little nearer to Julian, who obviously feared at first to suffer condemnation at his hands, but, finding only geniality, lost his uneasiness and suffered himself to become more natural.
Again he came back, walking a little nearer to the houses.
As he did so, Valentine moved a little nearer, as if urged by a sudden impulse.
Now she obeyed him, and the obedience seemed to bring him a little nearer to her.
He began another round singing the same song, and danced a little nearer to the field, while the Wolves all stamped their feet.
The wolves danced their best and the Groundhog encouraged them, but at each song he took another tree, and each tree was a little nearer to his hole under a stump.
Go on," he said, pressing a little nearer to her, and offering his arm.
He smiled excitedly and meaningful at her, and came a little nearer.
She advanced a little nearer, menacing in her black dress.
The war had come a little nearerat last than the columns of the daily Press.
He crept out from his hiding-place, a little nearer, and a little nearer, and at last he couldn't keep quiet any longer.
But come a little nearer so that you can catch me when I jump.
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