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Come near

verb

Almost do or experience something.

Move towards. Synonyms: approach, come on, draw close, draw near, go up, near. "They are drawing near" , "The enemy army came nearer and nearer"

Come near in time. Synonym: approach. "Approaching old age"

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"Come near" Quotes from Famous Books

... persons who are upon the rocks next the shore. These greater surges are probably to be accounted for by the fact that in the open sea waves produced by winds blowing in different directions may run on with their diverse courses and varied intervals until they come near the shore. Running in together, it very well happens that two of the surges belonging to different sets may combine their forces, thus doubling the swell. The danger which these conjoined waves bring is ...

— Outlines of the Earth's History - A Popular Study in Physiography • Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

... well as elsewhere?" asked Maggie. "I don't see any difference. But grandma needn't be troubled, for such things as men's boots never come near our house. It's a shame, though," she continued, "that we don't know anybody, either male or female. Let's go down to Worcester some day, and get acquainted. Don't you remember the two handsome young men whom we saw five ...

— Maggie Miller • Mary J. Holmes

... whole course of events a little further back still. For I desire to make it abundantly clear that I, whom they keep accusing of having forced my way into Pudentilla's house solely through love of money, ought really never to have come near that house, had the thought of money ever crossed my mind. My marriage has for many reasons brought me the reverse of prosperity and, but for the fact that my wife's virtues are compensation for any number of disadvantages, might be described ...

— The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura • Lucius Apuleius

... sir, was the finest rider that ever stepped on a horse's back. We've had nothing in our circus to come near her, since she went to Astley's. She was the wildest devil of an Irish girl—oh! I humbly beg your pardon, sir, for saying such a word; but she really was so wild, I hope you'll excuse it. She'd go through fire and water, as they say, to serve ...

— Hide and Seek • Wilkie Collins

... accepted Betty's arm; "and what think you?" he added, pausing that Corporal Palmer might hear his news. "She has been at Bowstead, and brings fresh tidings of our Aura. The darling is as fair and sprightly as a May morning, and beloved by all who come near ...

— Love and Life • Charlotte M. Yonge

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