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Example sentences for "drawing nearer"

  • Drawing nearer to her the crystal bowl, the old woman bent her head over it, and whispered incantations, as it seemed, over its contents.

  • During all this time the horseman is drawing nearer, though slowly.

  • It had not gone far, and is now returning--by little and little, drawing nearer to the dangerous spot.

  • On drawing nearer, he discovers them to be but coyotes; the film, refracting the moon's light, having deceived him as to their size.

  • Drawing nearer, Priscilla recognized me, and gave me a kind and friendly smile, but with a slight gesture, which I could not help interpreting as an entreaty not to make myself known to Hollingsworth.

  • Drawing nearer to Blithedale, a sickness of the spirits kept alternating with my flights of causeless buoyancy.

  • Drawing nearer, he recognized in the Rhetor a man he knew, Smolyaninov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an acquaintance--he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    became convinced; cheddar cheese; direct knowledge; drawing back; drawing himself; drawing near; drawing nigh; drawing room; drawing them; eight lines; feelings were; fought against; greatest length; know also; los cuales; necessary evil; ride from; said earnestly; seek employment; setting aside; stood erect; this effect; twenty fathoms; well shown; white swelling; wife came