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Thereabouts, Thereabout adv.

Near that place.

Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts. "Five or six thousand horse... or thereabouts." "Some three months since, or thereabout."

Concerning that; about that. (R.) "What will ye dine? I will go thereabout." "They were much perplexed thereabout."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thereabout" Quotes from Famous Books

... seen that from the 15 days' passage or thereabout, of the earliest Atlantic steamers, we had got down in the days of the Scotia to about 9 days; in the Britannic to 81/4 days, and, at the present time, we have got to 61/4 days, with seven ships afloat that have done the passage ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 • Various

... rmur say, "The folds at Hleidargard were attacked by a gray bear; many such beasts were there far and wide thereabout. Bjarki was told that it had killed the herdsmen's dogs; it was not much used to contending with men." This is still another harking back to the Hrlfssaga, and confirms what has been said on pp. 29 ff., that the monster in the saga is a cattle-attacking monster, not a hall-attacking ...

— The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf • Oscar Ludvig Olson

... between them grew lovely harebells, and at the foot of the knoll there were always in the season tall foxgloves, which had imparted a certain fear to the spot in my fancy. For there they call them Dead Man's Bells, and I thought there was a murdered man buried somewhere thereabout. I should not have liked to be there alone even in the broad daylight. But with Turkey I would have gone at any hour, even without the impulse which now urged me to follow him at my best speed. There was some marshy ground between us and the knoll, but we floundered through it; and then Turkey, ...

— Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood • George MacDonald

... times make friends apart from their fathers," said Mr Marshall with a smile. "I cannot say, Lady Lettice, that the name is quite unknown to me; yet cannot I, like you, lay a finger on any special thing I may have heard thereabout." ...

— It Might Have Been - The Story of the Gunpowder Plot • Emily Sarah Holt

... at his desk as he passed the teller's window and glanced through it, but he did not think much of that, for it was early in the day and the sprightly Roscoe might be in any one of a dozen places thereabout. He might be up in the Temple Camp ...

— Tom Slade with the Colors • Percy K. Fitzhugh

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