We passed many vessels, one a great four-masted barque nearing its port after six or eight months' voyage round the Horn from Liverpool.
Now, we are nearingthe city, there are more men at the way-stations.
Several days passed, and the four cabins were fastnearing completion.
The Princess was nearing her thirtieth year, when she treated love with contempt, and nothing had yet warned her of the imprudence of defying nature; so she believed herself well protected.
Mademoiselle had entertained at dinner all the princesses and duchesses then in Paris; and she drew the conclusion, knowing the Court and the courtiers, that her exile was nearing an end.
No person shall speak to the umpires, or distract their attention when the ball is near or nearing their goal.
Mr. Adams was nearing the end of his illustrious life, and a year later was stricken down in the seat which had been so graciously tendered him.
Thence we plunge into a shadowy belt of greenwood that fringes the waterside; nor until we are nearing Slebech do these woodland glades roll back, and give place to the more open scenery of Baron de Rutzen's beautiful demesne.
Then her stealthy hand turned the white china knob and released it so that it sprang backward with a click.
A younger figure than yours is getting to be wouldn't hurt the line any, you know.
Only, deep inside of me I was waiting and banking on you like--like poor little Cissie is now.
I stood on in the direction where I was to find Captain Levee, and could make out the Frenchman following me, and graduallynearing me.
Away to the eastward I noticed a heavy bank of clouds, but considered this of minor importance, as we werenearing the Equator.
I called the second mate as it was nearing eight bells, twelve o'clock.
For the next ten days the wind held steady, and one could see from the restlessness of the crew, particularly Dago Joe, that we were nearing land.
But the beast was at the end of the point, and nearing the end of his race.
They were nearing the high, rough rocks of the tip of the point.
The three of us were nearing the great hotel that rose yellow, with shuttered windows, in the early sunshine.
Also--the dawn was a lifting of inner veils from off his mind, rather than a brightening of the visible earth due to the nearing sun.
It was nearing midnight; sentries of the city, still under martial law, ordered him off the streets before he realized passing time.
He wrote that while he was coming from Crookston, Minnesota to where he had been working, and was nearing Wadena, Minnesota, the Spirit of the Lord told him to hurry to the bank before it closed and send Brother Susag five dollars.
On nearing his home I turned in to a grove I had to pass and kneeled down to pray for the brother.
It was nearing evening, and the red rays of the setting sun fell upon a young woman, humbly clad, sitting on a bench at the doorway, and cuddling upon her knee a little baby dressed in coarse, but spotlessly white garments.
They offered hope, too, that the period of famine was nearing its end.
It was evening, but not yet dark, when familiar landmarks told Shad that they were nearing the goal, and a little later they halted where the poles of Sishetakushin's lodge stood in the edge of the woods above the lake shore.
Faith, my own was heavy enough as I led Maisie through the West Vennel, shunning all but the darkest streets, for I knew not when I might be challenged and recognised, losing my way often, but nearing always to the outskirts of the town.
Yet I could not keep from the reflection that at this very time the day before I had been nearing the port of Leith in the Seamaw, expecting nothing save a pleasant homecoming, and thereafter a life of peace.
We were by this time nearing a black, inhospitable part of the land, where the road ran across a moor all covered with ferns and rushes and old trunks of trees.
When homeward bound and nearing their own shores they often lie at the bottom all night and wait for daylight before proceeding for fear of encountering English patrols or destroyers.
When they werenearing Habsheim, Lufbery glanced back and saw French shrapnel bursting over the trenches.
The Tempest Queen was nearing the Archipelago, after the stops at Penang and Singapore.
The embarkation of the troops then commenced, but took some time, and on the 18th, when the evacuation was nearing completion, news came that the French had landed near Cape Corso and were marching on Bastia.
The levatrice whispered that the good man had the pleurisy, and that, as she phrased it, he was nearing his last mile-stone.
On nearing the fair we were to form four deep and double through the fair.
On nearing the entrance-gate we formed closely in fours, and at a double charged down between the booths.
But the hands of the clock on the writing-table were nearing half-past eleven, and now it was she who referred to the lateness of the hour.
They were nearing Helensburgh when they came almost abruptly into clear weather.
It was nearing nine o'clock when Bullard's cab drew up at the magnificent entrance to Manchester House in New Broad Street, at that hour a well-nigh deserted thoroughfare.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nearing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
