nearabout

Example Sentences

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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 Otis, James

Mother knew from our conversation what it was we gazed at, and remained nearabout the fireplace striving to choke back the sobs of grief and sympathy which shook her frame.

From On the Kentucky Frontier A Story of the Fighting Pioneers of the West by Otis, James

"It was nearabout midnight when we came into this place," Hiram replied to Harvey's question, as if still working out a problem in his mind.

From The Minute Boys of Boston by Otis, James

There are others nearabout, Fitz Hamilton, who can also make a hurried march, and who knew the country better than do these under my Lord Cornwallis's command.

From The Minute Boys of York Town by Otis, James

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 Litsey, Edwin Carlile