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And a young woman, 19-year-old Daryna Kovalenko, held her little terrier, Tim, close upon arriving at Kyiv’s train station, after leaving her home in Chernihiv through a humanitarian corridor.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 21, 2022
First a radio station picked her up, then a Fargo dinner club, then the Benny Goodman Band, and solo records followed close upon.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2014
Now, in that cemetery in Padua, where they will lie forever, the Italian earth will close upon David Raikes and his fellow flyers.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2013
After the death of his mother in 1968, following close upon the death of his father, Mr. Selman moved into a small apartment in Greenwich Village with the help of an uncle, Murray Schaul.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2013
“Then they’ll be here when the bad thing comes. You must listen to me, Hazel. Believe me, something very bad is close upon us and we ought to go away.”
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
