And this," answered Alaeddin "is the sum of my wishes that I may be nearhand to thy Highness.
Whoever sitteth on this carpet and willeth in thought to be taken up and set down upon other site will, in the twinkling of an eye, be borne thither, be that place nearhand or distant many a day's journey and difficult to reach.
I felt nearhand as though I could have twisted Dame Elizabeth's neck for meat for those children.
They said he covered his face, and wept like the child he nearhand was.
And (which I had nearhand forgot) to the head of Saint Nicasius in the Cathedral, a crown.
I was nearhand driven out of senses that very morrow, so sharp [irritable] was she touching her array.
She was co-heir of the earldom of Gloucester, and his sword was nearhand his fortune.
I was nearhand in utter mishope [nearly in despair].
Sissot, when our daughters were babes, I was wont to think thou lovedst better Alice than Vivien, and I am nearhand secure that it was by reason she was the weaker of the twain, and pave thee the more thought.
No longer a bashful lad that was nearhand afraid to speak for himself ere he were bidden.
When Sandy's on for doin' something special, he nearhand aye mak's a gutter o't some wey or ither.
It wud be nearhand twal o'clock when I ran doon for them.
It gaed doon the wrang road, an' Sandy was nearhand chokit.
As I cudda tell'd afore he gaed up, he wasna there five meenits when he was nearhand at the fechtin' wi' the man aboot the wey he drave his horse.
There was a lad was born in Kyle," juist nearhandgarred Sandy jump aff his seat.
I can tell you, he nearhand sirrendered ane o' the bobbies wi' the spygless.
Ye've had a nearhand escape this time, sir," he said, after a longish pause.
But whether, when he should break his camp at Forney's plantation, he would go northward after Morgan and the prisoners, or cross the river at some nearhandford to chase our main, none of our scouts could tell us.
Do you think I’m forced to stand here to be jawed at; let alone ’at you rob me out o’ good money, nearhand as oft as you do a job for me?
But who is he that woteth not how hard it is, and nearhand impossible to a fleshly soul the which is yet rude in ghostly studies, for to rise in knowing of unseeable[52] things, and for to set the eye of contemplation in ghostly things?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nearhand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
