Nearest

Examples

• It ended in her driving them both to the nearest station, more than three hours since. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Round two sides of it, the sides nearest to the interior of the church, ran heavy wooden presses, worm-eaten and gaping with age. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He had hired a lodging for the present in Covent Garden, and he took the nearest way to that quarter, by Snow Hill and Holborn. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Beneath the nearest lamp-post he glanced at his watch and saw that the time was close on eleven. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• None of those who were nearest answered; but from the outer ring there arose a shrill cry of ''Cause you're mad! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Your uncle is your nearest male relative, and the head of the family. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This was the nearest approach to a council of war I ever held. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The one nearest to and north of the North Anna and Pamunkey was taken by Wright, followed by Hancock. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But he became less confident, on looking, and directed the bearers to 'bring him to the nearest doctor's shop. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In the New York first district the nearest property available was a double building at Nos. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Very true, he replied; and I agree with you that in the best-ordered State there is the nearest approach to this common feeling which you describe. Plato. The Republic.
• Stealthily I approached the nearest sleeper. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I ran out, knowing the neighbourhood a little better than the rest of them, to fetch the nearest doctor's help. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• His nearest way lay through some fields. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Those nearest the gate stole out ashamed; there was a movement through all the crowd--a retreating movement. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Burnside's position now separated him widely from Wright's corps, the corps nearest to him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I had a steamer stop at the nearest point possible, and was carried to it on a litter. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The stake stood forty feet from the nearest tree. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I have called this fixation on the nearest object at hand an American habit. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He despatched a groom, on horseback, for the nearest medical man, Mr. Dawson, of Oak Lodge. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• On leaving the house we directed our steps to the nearest shade. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And I was that nearest person--brimful of comfort, charged to overflowing with seasonable and reviving words. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Pablo went over to the nearest tree and watched down the slope, across the slope and up the road across the gorge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He was walking now along the road to the nearest station. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• On the leveling strips at the extreme side of where the bed is to lie, a 3 x 1-inch maple strip is laid, widest side downward, with its finished one-inch edge nearest to the gutter. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• You are going home; my nearest road lies in the opposite direction. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I couldn't bring myself to look at the Sergeant--I looked at Mr. Franklin, who stood nearest to me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• His nearest way lay through the churchyard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Oh, of course you see only the Mingott side, his mother answered, in the sensitive tone that was her nearest approach to anger. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

Editor: Paula