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Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

William Hull

My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell us about growing up near the Irrawaddy river and how one brother was eaten by a crocodile.

Jamie Cullum

Once a bustling logging town, Sandpoint has embraced its natural beauty to become an amazing resort town drawing people near and far to enjoy its beauty and recreational possibilities. It's truly a small town with a huge backyard.

Nate Holland

The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.

Jerry Saltz

The outer bands of the tropical storm didn’t play as good of music as the inner bands near the eye did.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Maybe this is as near as we can come to forgiveness. Not the past wiped away, nothing undone, but some willingness in the present, some recognition and embrace and slowing down.

Aquarium

Mortals are odd creatures in that sense—flawed yet hopeful. One can study them through millennia and still get nowhere near full understanding of their nature.

Arabesque

Being with her was near impossible. But being without her… I didn’t want to think about it. -- Aren from Hunter's Moon

Hunter's Moon

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

Ham on Rye

Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.

Jane Eyre

She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.

Rumors

- How does it feel to have a daughter? - At times it's like holding a warm egg in my hand.

Near to the Wild Heart

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

An Object of Beauty

Tell me I'm not crazy," He said. I couldn't do that. I was nowhere near sane enough at the moment to advise anyone else on rational behavior.

Losing It

But was not an aesthetic criterion that Flashjack, as a faery, had terribly high on his list of priorities; it was well below and nowhere near .

Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

Pity that child who was born near Rouen, His only crime, to arrive deformed.

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

I make naked, and I make it by hand. I also make it using the rest of my body. Coming soon to a Walmart near you.

Xazaqazax

We’re only five years apart,” I said defiantly. “If you look at some of those dysfunctional vampyre relationships, we’re near normal.

Year of the Tiger

I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.

Cat Deeley

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

Candace Parker

I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house.

Gail Simmons