As soon, therefore, as they had received from the chief of police all the information he could impart, they started toward home, neither nearer nor further from the object of their search.
The trees had long since fallen before the fiery blast; the derricks and buildings of the adjacent wells were consumed, while inch by inch the oil-fed fire creptnearer the town.
After paddling about for some time in evident suspense, they ventured to approach the boat, then came still nearer and shouted, and having caught a few beads which were thrown out to them, immediately retired.
When the day arrived we had the happiness to see the vessel still upright, but driven nearer the shore.
The men who had defended the hill all day were now fast asleep, most of them absolutely unprotected from the cold rain, so I made my fellows bring them nearer to the fire.
Throwing himself down on the coarse grass, he watched the black speck moving nearer and nearer, and as it emerged from the dark shadows of the Lyemoon Pass, he saw that it was followed by five others, the last three mere dots on the sea.
Our second shot, five minutes later, was still nearer the cruiser, but she made no attempt to move, and began firing single guns.
From the top of the highest tree floated the Canadian ensign, while nearer the house the ancient folds of the Union Jack were spread to the breeze.
Nearer and nearer approached the trenches towards the doomed city, which at intervals was subjected to a terrific bombardment from hundreds of guns.
I see,' she said timidly, 'that I amnearer the throne than I thought.
Tom, in the conning tower had a sight of the San Paulo as it drifted nearer and nearerunder the influence of the mighty wind.
In the pilot house, with its thick glass windows, Tom, his father and Captain Weston looked over the surface of the ocean, which every minute was coming nearer and nearer to them.
Nearer and nearer her blunt nose, with the electric propulsion plate and the auxiliary propeller, came to the creek, the waters of which were quiet now, awaiting the turn of the tide.
We'll slow up a bit now, and let them getnearer to us.
Let's go a little nearer the surface, and give them the best race they'll ever have.
At first the tones were not distinct, but as the lad drew nearer to the voice he heard an exclamation.
Each time the leaflet fell, it approached nearer to the nocturnal position than it did on the previous fall.
When the light was dim, and only a very little brighter on one side than on the other, the movement consisted of a succession of ellipses, directed towards the light, each of which approached nearer to its source than the previous one.
The ascending and descending lines stand nearer to one another than is usual with most plants, yet there was some lateral motion.
Most men thought that the design was a vain one, fomented only in the enthusiasm of family ties.
But the swell is heavier than ever, the timbers nearer to parting.
If languages and men too are imperfect, must we never make an effort to bring them a few steps nearer to what is preferable?
The stork chattering to her young on the house-peak may feel that her nest is lifted out of danger, but the croaking frog in neighboring bulrushes is nearer the stars than she.
Father, they are no nearer to a passage than the radiant girls who chant and tell their beads.
It seems to me that I do not know a bird till I have heard its voice; then I come nearer it at once, and it possesses a human interest to me.
Now they show their great humpbacks more plainly, as if they had drawn nearer to us.
Blue Yellow-Back he is called, though the yellow is much nearer a bronze.
But this forms a new aim too vast for my limited view; I have had to fix my eyes on objects nearer at hand.
When we look at the sun and imagine it to be immensely nearer to us than it really is, the error arises from the manner in which the essence of the sun affects the body, not merely from the exercise of the imagination.
Perhaps because the Masquer did not fire instantly, and perhaps because Maillard's mad action shamed them, the nearer members of the drinking party hurled themselves at the bandit.
Nearer at hand, however, he saw other buildings, and these drew his attention.
The wants of his army forced him in fact to raise the siege; but even success would have been fruitless, for he was recalled by trouble nearer home.
But as a statesman he was powerless in the hands of the Beauforts, and from this moment the policy of the Beauforts drew England nearer and nearer to the chaos of civil war.
But influences from without as from within drove him nearer to Lutheranism.
Edward had never forgiven Clarence his desertion; and his impeachment in 1478 on a charge of treason, a charge soon followed by his death in the Tower, brought Richard nearer to the throne.
Her colour is a sad slate-colour; I cannot get any nearer to it than that.
Another thing that has often struck me is this: the farther north you go in Scotland, and the nearer to the abode of the wild cat, the greater is the resemblance in head and tail, and often in colour, of the tame cat to the wild.
Emperor much nearer his own day, the Emperor of whom he had just written in the Ode à la Colonne de la Place Vendôme, that his spurs outweighed Charlemagne's sandals.
But Mérimée approaches nearer than this to tragedy proper, where the fateful element sinks deep into the character, mingling with it as a poison mingles with the blood.
Hugo's characters certainly approach nearerto real life, and for this reason, that events such as those represented in his plays had occurred in France in much more recent times than in Denmark.
Of course he is popular as King too, but as Prince of Wales he came nearer the people.
Mr. Dubourg has kindly taken charge of it--so that it is now much nearer to its future owner than it has been for seven years.
Life is all pleasure; or rather, a concentric series of pleasure—the outer circles seemingly quite as thickly crowded with happiness as those nearer the centre.
Nearer and louder it came; and out of an adjoining thicket rushed another bull, brother-like, equal at all points, and a worthy antagonist for such a hero.
These storms seldom occur far out in the open ocean, or beyond the tropics, or nearer the equator than nine or ten degrees.
Something nearer even than brother or sister, is what this heart-hunger craves now.
I knew they could not reach me with their frost-biting breath; and I unconsciously drew a bit nearer the fire, and wrapped myself more closely in the feeling of comfort that I had drawn about me.
They lie in the Pacific Ocean, much nearer to this continent than the other, and have become an important place for the refitment and provisioning of American and European vessels.
Since that period a new power has been introduced into the affairs of the world, which has for all practical purposes brought Texas much nearer to the seat of Government than Louisiana was at the time of its annexation.
Since March 23rd the tread of the Hun had been coming steadily nearer to Paris.
The Tories have come muchnearer to us, and we to them.
Well, the result is I have thrown away three weeks of my leave in taking a lot of trouble and we are no nearer than we were before.
Time and again they had sought to shake him off with brief outbursts of restless fury; but he held what he had won, and in the lull that followed the storm he had never failed to creep nearer to their citadel.
But as they approached nearer to the border between the waste and the cultivated bottom lands, no sounds reached their ears excepting the trampling of their own horses, and they began to hope that they had left their pursuers behind.
The beams of the morning sun bathed the rugged sides of Mount Hymettus and lightened the dark foliage that clothed the nearer wooded slopes of Lycabettus.
Work was resumed, and the long causeway crept nearer and nearer to the city.
Even Clearchus forgot his anxiety in the thought that he was drawingnearer to Artemisia, and the grim Leonidas had smiled more than once at the sallies of the light-hearted Theban.
There was a muttering of thunder, then a nearer crash overhead, and they saw the storm striding across the plain in a long, sweeping curve.
Every heart-beat brought her nearer to that glowing metal surface, whose terrible heat he could feel upon his face where he stood.
Every moment that you kept us behind that door brought you nearer to death.
The mole crept ever nearer to the wall, and Macedonian captains, cruising around the city, gazed hungrily at the battlements.
And the nearer we come to the conclusion of the drama, the more striking become Shakspere's satirical hits.
The tendency of the time was to turn away from mysteries and abstract notions, and to draw in art and poetry nearer to real life.
Though chimney-pots be all my views; 'T is nearer for the winging Muse, So I am sure she 'll not refuse To visit me.
I trust the wind will last, not only because it brings me nearer home, but also because without it the heat would be intolerable.
The clock downstairs gave the only sound I heard, as it marked the footsteps of the dark angel coming nearer and nearer.
So we drifted week after week upon the river, each time nearer and nearer to the harbour of confession.
As we drew nearer I could distinguish their forms but not their occupation, for they stood in a circle, intent on some object in their midst concealed from our view.
Paler and paler grew the heavens, nearer and nearer swept the chanting; and now the first pilgrim swung himself up into our view, quenched his torch and bowed in homage.
I set my teeth and crouched down nearerto the rock.
The same river:--but nearer the sea now-- nearer the infinite sea.
The air grew closer and the walls seemed to draw nearer as Jonathan's voice continued its drowsy tale.
I fear I interrupted your fencing lesson; but my stay in Chatteris is very short, and I was anxious to make myself known to my old fellow-campaigner Captain Costigan, and to see a ladynearer who had charmed me so much from the stage.
When a gentleman is cudgelling his brain to find any rhyme for sorrow, besides borrow and to-morrow, his woes are nearer at an end than he thinks for.
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