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Example sentences for "came close"

  • Princess Mary lowered her eyes and, tripping over her skirt, came close up to them.

  • He slipped in between the officers, came close to Denisov, and said: "Let me kiss you, dear old fellow!

  • When he came close, Wesakchak saw that he carried mud in his paws and on his broad, flat tail.

  • When he came close to them, he saw they were fairies, and that they had been turned to stone.

  • As he came close to it, the hot rays began to burn his back, but he kept on, and began to chew the cords, which bound it.

  • We came close to the cave where my clothes lay.

  • I came close to her, and then my confidence departed.

  • In another second I had leapt from the tree, and then ran along by the wall until I came close to the place where the bower had been placed.

  • They all knew him when he came close up, but none of the troopers raised their pieces or thought of stopping him.

  • As we came close, out walks old Crib, and smells at us.

  • I came close to them in a thick growth of spruce.

  • One season in Alaska I came close upon a party of seven mountain goats in the head of a little canyon.

  • They quickly gave it up, for in each case the bear early discovered the trap--came close to it and then avoided it.

  • When he came close, his mouth assumed the bell shape, and he began to cough violently.

  • He came close to the large doors, one of which stood slightly ajar, and looked in.

  • A slight flush had mounted his cheek by the time he had run the gauntlet between these women; but, passing on through the chancel arch, he never paused till he came close to the altar railing.

  • The noise approached, came close, and a figure was apparently on the point of gliding past her when some- thing tugged at her skirt and pinned it forcibly to the ground.

  • Our canoe was, as I have said, ahead of all the others, when suddenly a canoe, which was crossing the river from the left bank, came close to us.

  • Each Ashira, as if by instinct, came close to me for protection.

  • He came close to me, and whispered the word ngego (leopard).

  • The noise approached, came close, and a figure was apparently on the point of gliding past her when something tugged at her skirt and pinned it forcibly to the ground.

  • But when he came close to her he broke down.

  • He came close to her, trying to decipher her face in the moonlight.

  • He came close to her, laid his arm timidly round her shoulders, bent his cheek to hers.

  • He came close to her again and pleaded, by the memory of her child, of their father--that she would yield, and go away with him at once.

  • He had the eyes, nose and brain of a fox, while perhaps the rest of him, heart and soul, came close to being just plain hog.

  • With his finger upon his lips, his air surcharged with mystery, he came close to her.

  • Without more ado he came close to the rock upon which she sat looking down at him with demure eyes, swept her off into his arms and kissed her before he put her down.

  • He came close up to the dauntless four, and then, to their amazement, he passed straight through them and reappeared on the other side.

  • Presently it came close to him again, and in the centre he saw a grinning old hag, upon whom he seized.

  • He came close to Cynthia and handed the fruits to her.

  • As I came close to the Bo's'n's heels I saw him leap aside, as if he had been stung, and strike into the wood with a howl as if in anguish.

  • At last, after a couple of hours that were the most pleasurable we had passed for many days, we came close to the island, and could see that the colonists were all crowded together upon the beach, waiting to receive us.

  • When we came close enough we saw that the island seemed in all respects to be a more delectable spot than that island on which chance had first cast us.

  • She was looking out at the island when I came close, and there was so much noise aboard and beyond that she did not hear my coming till I stood beside her, and called her name into her ear.

  • It takes a long time to tell, but the thing itself took longer to happen, for it must have been fully an hour after we first noted the raft before it came close to the shore of our island.

  • The house looked respectable at a distance—a large square building, cased in blue slates to defend it from storms,—but when we came close to it the outside forewarned us of the poverty and misery within.

  • When I came close to the houses, I could not but regret a want of loveliness correspondent with the beauty of the situation and the appearance of the village at a little distance; not a single ornamented garden.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    between citizens; came about; came alongside; came and; came around; came ashore; came close; came down; came from; came hither; came near; came running; came rushing; came straight; came thither; came towards; came unto; criminal lunatic; hath turned; livestock products; making signs; many young; open sight; the tents; westerly winds; widely known