To the unimaginative man the life of the world of imagination is pretty nearly as unintelligible as to the bushman of Australian wilds would be the subtly refined distinctions of that now extinct monster, the London aesthete.
Time seems to be proving, however, that the amount of noise made over these theory-mongering romances is pretty nearly in adverse ratio to their worth.
In the study of literature approximations are apt to be pretty nearly worthless.
Assistant Secretary of War, Judge Campbell, is still furloughing, detailing, and discharging men from the army; and yet he thinks the country is pretty nearly exhausted of its fighting population!
When he got back to camp, Hugh said to him, "Do you know, son, that last antelope you killed is pretty nearly gone?
That's just what I was thinking, Hugh, that more than half of the things there were no good, and that you'd pretty nearly have to have an extra horse to carry it around with you.
I've the best of reasons for knowing that she starts pretty nearly out of her skin at every shadow.
I'll show her that I'm pretty nearly as good at trapesing through the woods at night as she is.
The polywog, of course, is pretty nearly a fish, with gills and tail, who breathes water.
Now an old rat is proverbial for wisdom; they laugh at cats, and it is pretty nearly impossible to get them to go near a trap, unless they are nearly starved.
I had a pistol and a gun, and popped at everything that stirred, pretty nearly, except the house-cat.
The river is pretty nearly a mile across here, but very shallow now.
Number Five is pretty nearly omniscient, and she and I are on the best terms with each other.
If there should be any suspicious characters about, they won't see us through these blinds; they're pretty nearly as good as shutters.
The fields along here are ploughed in ridges about 20 feet wide, and the angle of this species of roof is pretty nearly as sharp as that of some slated roofs of houses.
This madness, this blind eagerness to gain, is now, I hope, pretty nearly over.
The church has a Saxon Tower, pretty nearly equal, as far as I recollect, to that of the Cathedral at Winchester.
I hope it will become cohete during the time that Parliament is sitting, for otherwise it will have cohesion pretty nearly equal to that of the Marriage Act.
Pretty nearly all my life, and that's long enough, goodness knows.
The main thing is that you ARE up and must be pretty nearly starved.
When we come to the next creek I shall be able to make my guess still more certain, and by the time we get to Pensacola I shall have the whole march marked pretty nearly right on the map.
Here, look at it on the map; you see it's as straight a course as we could go even on land, or pretty nearly.
Just as he began to think that he must be pretty nearly out of the den, however, he came suddenly upon an obstruction.
You can ship this material in over the range at prices that will be pretty nearly prohibitory, or, as you suggest, it can be manufactured right here on the spot.
Pretty nearly all, except to tell you that your time is growing short, and you and those who are in with you had better begin to set your houses in order.
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