As they neared the boat, so great was the crowd clambering on board that Dorothy would have been separated from her companion had she not clung to his arm.
As they neared the house they met one of the servants hurrying down the road.
As he neared the settlement he noticed lights ablaze in Bachelor's Row, and many figures flitting about with hurried movements.
As he neared the pit the White Lady appeared from the pit and looked at him with inexpressibly sad eyes, drew her hand thrice across her throat, and disappeared again in the pit.
The Duchess parted from her niece as they neared the house and proceeded to pay her first visit.
After this the combatants parted, and a brief truce followed, at the close of which the two vessels again neared each other, and a second duel, fiercer and more desperate if possible than the first, ensued.
After passing Sewall’s Point in safety, the steamer neared Fort Norfolk, then in the hands of the enemy.
As the steamer sped on her way and neared the scene of the apparent battle, hugging the shore closely, the view increased in splendor, and occasionally there came wafted over the water the low, hollow sound of a distant gun.
Creeping stealthily along the ground, they neared the spot where the man lay, and pushed the stretcher under him.
As they neared the field, our retreating troops sent up a loud cheer, prolonged by “Tigers!
The main body of the Confederates appeared to be advancing from the direction of the Chickahominy, and as they neared our lines, cautiously feeling their way, they opened fire with several field-pieces.
They were even more numerous than we had imagined, for huge dun-colored forms slunk off in all directions through the bush as we neared the water.
I hope Toma is all right," Dick said anxiously as they neared the cabin.
Swiftly they neared a point where the ravine widened out into a low walled valley, which was almost barren of vegetation.
London had already begun to disgorge its workers as he neared Putney Bridge; the ant-heap was on the move outwards.
She neared her father's house, driven this way and that, while all the time the Forsyte undertow was drawing her to deep conclusion that after all he was her property, to be held against a robbing world.
Those arcs and changing curves of the branches as they neared were sketching lines of pure horror whose meaning he still could not understand, save that they deepened in dreadfulness as he neared.
Walking delicately over the flowery grass, arrogantly luminous in the twilight, so that her body was the center and focus of any landscape she walked in, she neared her horribly eager god.
She could not have known by sight that they neared the well, but when they were within twenty paces of it she flung up her blurred head suddenly and tugged at his hand.
As we neared the village, I caught sight of Huron River, the Wrockumiteogoe of the Indians, meaning, "clear water.
The twinkling lights of the village looked very pleasant as I neared my destination, marking here and there the homes of its hundreds of inhabitants.
As we approached the coast a small boat neared us, and came close under our lee; the boat looked somewhat like those employed in bringing in heavy loads to New Orleans, but her sails were more tattered, her men more fair in complexion.
We neared the shore, but as before our would-be pilot could not recognize the land, and our captain had to search for the harbor where we now are, himself.
Our boat neared the rock, and went to the lee of it, and was absent nearly an hour, but could not land.
About ten a speck rose on the horizon, which I was told was the Rock; we sailed well, the breeze increased fast, and we neared this object apace.
We neared shore, and talked to them; for, they proving to be Sioux, and our captain being a good scholar in that tongue, there was no difficulty in so doing.
Now and then, as we crossed a hill and looked back over the sea, we saw our beautiful vessel sailing freely before the wind, and as she gradually neared the horizon, she looked like a white speck, or an Eagle high in air.
We now saw a schooner at anchor, and the country looked well at this distance, and as we neared the shore the thermometer, which had been standing at 44 deg.
As the rider neared the plaza, he reined suddenly in.
They growled a little as they neared the man, but a few sharp words of command put them in their places.
Just as we neared the summit I saw a Turkish woman climbing slowly and painfully up the track; but when we got to the shelter-house erected on the crest of the mountain, I lost sight of her.
As I neared the redoubts this assault was at its height, and this time the Turkish troops would not be denied.
As the sun neared the horizon, the clergyman took his place in the yard, Kenneth stepped forward, and waited.
As the company neared the door of the Clayton home, one little girl suddenly burst forth: "My maw says she won't let her childern go ter Bible school ter be learned 'ligion by a Gentile.
With this he rode on slightly ahead, and presently put his horse at a gentle canter which he did not increase as theyneared the place where the black men ambushed.
But as the physician neared the end of the roughly written record, the Captain interrupted him.
As heneared the oyster rocks, he slowed down the engine, and ran directly over the sunken part of the vessel.
Shortly after this their course was intercepted by a brook, and both horses having cleared it excellently, they kept well together again for a short time, when they neared a deep dyke which lay between them and the clump of trees.
With flying hoofs he cut in ahead of the herd just as they neared the face of the rock.
As he talked they neared the camp where Sandy's keen eye took in at a glance every detail of the scene before him.
As it neared the summit of the mountain, it took the form of a white dragon.
But when heneared Naniwa, the gods would not allow his vessel to enter the haven.
At last, far in the distance, rose the dim outline of a hill such as he had never seen before; and when he perceived a tree on its summit, Jofuku knew that he neared Horaizan.
As they neared Yedo, they left him, faint and weary, on the roadside.
As he neared the bear den which he had discovered during the day and identified by tracks, Tom moved very cautiously, making no noise, and, secreting himself between two rock masses, lay down to await developments.
The raging stream had grown much smaller now, as the caravanneared its place of beginning, and the next morning the corporal found a place at which he thought it safe to attempt a crossing.
The farmhouse of Donovan of Drummig was connected with the high road by the usual narrow and stony lane; as we neared the entrance of the lane we saw through the swirls of rain a baker's van bumping down it.
As I neared the Workhouse I recognised the deliberate footfall of the Quaker, and presently his long pale face entered the circle illuminated by my bicycle-lamp.
When David found a turnkey between himself and freedom, he did not hesitate to kill, though his remorse was bitter enough when he neared the gallows.
How long or what way we went I have now no clear idea, but at length we neared again the grapevine ferry.
He took a circuit, standing in his stirrups and calling orders to his teamsters, and as he neared me again he said very gently, "Good Lord!
As he neared the clump of trees he made the night shudder with still wilder and fiercer screams.
As they neared the ancient burying ground Mr. Allison, for he was one of the riders, became less talkative, and rode closer to his friend, a young man of about his own age.
At the appointed hour I repaired to the cavern: the door was partially closed; I opened it, hearing no answer to my knock, and walked gently along the passage; but I now heard shrieks and groans and wild laughter as I neared the rude chamber.
He neared the cave; he paused; he was within a few paces of me; I was about to rise, when another figure suddenly glided from the mouth of the cave itself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neared" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
