nearabout
Example Sentences
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I have seen soldiers nearabout New Orleans, therefore do I know that when foragers go out they take with them huge wagons to bring back such as may be found.
From The Minute Boys of York Town by James Otis
I knew of no one nearabout Benedict who would have rowed a boat against the current when she could have been handled so much more readily the other way.
From Commodore Barney's Young Spies A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington by James Otis
The main highway, which we traveled for a number of miles, was made of gravel, brought from a considerable stream which, I learn, runs somewhere nearabout.
From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey
"So far as I know, there are no settlers nearabout."
From On the Kentucky Frontier A Story of the Fighting Pioneers of the West by James Otis
As I figger it, we had best bear off to the westward, strikin' the fort on that side nearabout where the fragment of a bush stands, than to push on for the main gate.
From The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley by James Otis
