"Nearby" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Nearby was the crib containing a baby of a few days, suffering with a congenital heart disease. The infant's lips were blue, so was the body blue, and the gasping for breath and heaving of the small ...
— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks
... jet As much as ten feet high, And all were soaked and nearly choked Who chanced to be nearby! ...
— The Slant Book • Peter Newell
... ocean. When she came back, she had hundreds of things to talk about; but the most beautiful, she said, was to lie in the moonlight, on a sandbank, in the quiet sea, near the coast, and to gaze on a large town nearby, where the lights were twinkling like hundreds of stars; to listen to the sounds of the music, the noise of carriages, and the voices of human beings, and then to hear the merry bells peal out from the ...
— Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen
... hurrying his captive toward a huge thoat that browsed upon the ochre vegetation of the once scarlet-gorgeous plaza. At the same instant a dozen red warriors leaped from the entrance of a nearby ersite palace, pursuing the abductor with naked swords and shouts ...
— Thuvia, Maid of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... continued more courageously, recalling the great Pharos of white marble which used to be one of the world's wonders in her day; the Museum, and the marvellous Library which took fire while Julius Caesar burned the fleet, nearby in ...
— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson
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