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Come near

verb

Almost do or experience something.

Move towards. Synonyms: approach, come on, draw close, draw near, go up, near. "They are drawing near" , "The enemy army came nearer and nearer"

Come near in time. Synonym: approach. "Approaching old age"

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"Come near" Quotes from Famous Books

... Chad saw Margaret, she spoke to him shyly but cordially, and when he did not come near her, she stopped him on the street one day and reminded him of his promise to come and see them. And Chad knew the truth at once—that she had never asked her father about him, but had not wanted to know what she had been told ...

— The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come • John Fox

... wenches skirl'd, "He's no' be here! His eldritch look gars us swarf wi' fear; An' the feint a ane will the house come near, If ...

— Spare Hours • John Brown

... cannot usually come near enough to do that, he generally attacks a giraffe with the help of one or two lionesses. For then they can all attack the giraffe from different sides; and as the giraffe cannot kick different ways at once, one of them is ...

— The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two • Prince Sarath Ghosh

... for her; the first meat, she told him, that she had tasted for weeks. On hearing it his heart grew hot. Why had not Vashti come and seen about her? She explained it partly, however, when she told him that every one had been sick at Cove Mills's, and old Cove himself had come near dying. No doctor could be got to see them, as there was none left in the neighborhood, and but for Mrs. Douwill she did not know what they would have done. But Mrs. ...

— The Burial of the Guns • Thomas Nelson Page

... was because I looked at it. If the keeper misses a deer, he swears at Master Perry! Oliver and Robert will not let me touch a thing of theirs; they bait me for a moon-calf, and grin when I am beaten for their doings. Even my mother quakes and trembles when I come near, and thinks I give her the creeps. As to my father and tutor, it is ever the rod with them, though I can learn my tasks far better than those jolter-heads Noll and Robin. I never heard so many kind words in all my life as you have given me since ...

— A Reputed Changeling • Charlotte M. Yonge

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