"Close at hand" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was now close at hand; a boy in the stern sheets was the only officer, and a poor one plainly, for the men were talking ...
— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
... day, the perfect picture of a used-up little fellow, suffering from the sad effects of a night's carouse. But he is an honest bird, notwithstanding his late hours and his idle sleeping days; he is also domestic in his habits, and the father of an interesting family, close at hand, in a hollow white-birch, and he is ever ready to give them his ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various
... invariably be made for the previous state of the instrument during some days as well as hours, because its indications may be affected by remote causes, or by changes close at hand. Some of these changes may occur at a greater or less distance, influencing neighbouring regions, but not visible to each observer whose ...
— Barometer and Weather Guide • Robert Fitzroy
... known that the chimes were to play this year; and, when midnight was close at hand, Captain Monk volunteered a statement which astonished his hearers. Rimmer, the butler, had come into the ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 • Various
... were roused by a tumult of joyous and exultant voices. They thronged to the shore,— priests, soldiers, traders, and officers, mingled with warriors and shrill-voiced squaws from Huron and Algonquin camps in the neighboring forest. Close at hand they saw twelve or fifteen canoes slowly drifting down the current of the St. Lawrence, manned by eighty young Indians, all singing their songs of victory, and striking their paddles against the edges of their bark vessels in cadence with their voices. Among them three Iroquois prisoners ...
— The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century • Francis Parkman
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