"Anear" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... soon I heard a roaring wind: It did not come anear; 310 But with its sound it shook the sails, That ...
— Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... cool and we can hear the voicing of the kine come from the pasture lot anear the styes ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson
... ire she spake, adjusting disunitedly then her yoke At his own rebuke the lion doth his heart to a fury spur, 85 With a step, a roar, a bursting unarrested of any brake. But anear the foamy places when he came, to the frothy beach, When he saw the sexless Attis by the seas' level opaline, Then he rushed upon him; affrighted to the wintery wood he flew, Cybele's for aye, for all years, ...
— The Poems and Fragments of Catullus • Catullus
... anear; All the place [1] is holy ground; Hollow smile and frozen sneer Come not here. Holy water will I pour Into every spicy flower Of the laurel-shrubs that hedge it around. The flowers would faint at your cruel cheer. In your eye there is death, There is frost in your breath Which would blight ...
— The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson
... shall he kneel low, With the red-roan steed anear him, Which shall seem to understand, Till I answer, 'Rise and go! For the world must love and fear him Whom I ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester
... stealing anear, When things in the firelight look queer; And shadows the playroom enwrap, They never climb into my lap And toy with my head, smooth and bare, As they do with Mamma's shining hair; Nor feel round my throat and my chin For dimples ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... stars out-twinkled; and anear, a sordid lake, Like a miser, hugged the silver of their glitter to its breast; And it stayed within the closet of the trees and tangled brake, Lest some fortunate bold robber should steal from ...
— Stories in Verse • Henry Abbey
... for the gathering, which grow my path anear, The skies are fair, and everywhere the sun is warm and clear: I may have missed the wine of life, the strong wine and the new, But I have my wells of ...
— Verses • Susan Coolidge
... Carols each Christmas bell. What are the wraiths of mist That gather anear the window-pane Where the winter frost all day has lain? They are soulless elves, who fain would peer Within and laugh at our Christmas cheer: Ring fleetly, chimes! Swift, swift, my rhymes! They are made ...
— In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV) • Harrison S. Morris
... and thither through the hall. But the old crone took him by the hand, and led him up to the dais, and set him next to the midmost high-seat. Then she made as if she would do off his war-gear, and he would not gainsay her, though he deemed that foes might be anear; for in sooth he trusted in the old carle that he would not bewray him, and moreover he deemed it would be unmanly not to take the risks of the guesting, according to ...
— The Story of the Glittering Plain - or the Land of Living Men • William Morris
... out, children, from the mine and from the city— Sing out, children, as the little thrushes do! Pluck your handfuls of the meadow cowslips pretty— Laugh aloud to feel your fingers let them through! But the children say—"Are cowslips of the meadows Like the weeds anear the mine?[L] Leave us quiet in the dark of our coal-shadows, From your ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 • Various
... hands had fainted, and his shield had sunk adown, So thick with the Eastland spearwood was that rampart of renown; And hacked and dull were the edges that had rent the wall of foes: Yet he stood upright by Gunnar before that shielded close, Nor looked on the foeman's faces as their wild eyes drew anear, And their faltering shield-rims clattered with the remnant of their fear; But he gazed on the Niblung woman, and the daughter of his folk, Who sat o'er all unchanging ere ...
— Lyra Heroica - A Book of Verse for Boys • Various
... gold," O'er the dandelion-wold, We hunted afar and anear; And with shouts of delight We all greeted the sight Of the fully-blown flower Presaging the shower Of bright blossoms that brought us such cheer, Aye, the blossoms that ...
— Mother Truth's Melodies - Common Sense For Children • Mrs. E. P. Miller
... earl then discovered he was down in some cavern Where no water whatever anywise harmed him, And the clutch of the current could come not anear him, Since the roofed-hall prevented; brightness a-gleaming, Fire-light he saw, flashing resplendent. The good one saw then the sea-bottom's monster, The mighty mere-woman: he made a great onset With ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 2 • Charles Dudley Warner
... them, but even as to the days of the week. I have heard him protest: "Monday you says for me to come. Well, I dunno about Monday—if Tuesday'd suit ye as well? I wants to do so-and-so o' Monday, if 'tis fine. You see, there's Mr. S—— I bin so busy I en't bin anear him this week for fear he should want me up there. I knows his grass wants cuttin'. But I 'xpects I shall ha' to satisfy 'n Monday, or else p'raps he won't like it." Sometimes he takes a day for his own affairs, carting home hop-bine in his ...
— Change in the Village • (AKA George Bourne) George Sturt
... points of steel, and the horses shifting about 'Neath the flashing swords of the captains—then the silence after the shout - Sun and wind in the street, familiar things made clear, Made strange by the breathless waiting for the deeds that are drawing anear. For woe had grown into will, and wrath was bared of its sheath, And stark in the streets of London stood the crop of the dragon's teeth. Where then in my dream were the poor and the wall of faces wan? Here and here by my side, shoulder ...
— The Pilgrims of Hope • William Morris
... familiar scenes anear Disappear— Homestead, orchard, field, and wold. Moorish spires and turrets fair Cleave the air, Arabesqued on skies ...
— The Poems of Emma Lazarus - Vol. I (of II.), Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic • Emma Lazarus
... a youth, in woe a man, Sad Brewster, scarred by sorrow's blighting ban, Looks, panting, where his captive sister sleeps, And o'er his face the shade of murder creeps. His nostrils quiver like a hungry beast Who scents anear the bloody carnal feast. He longs to leap down in that slumbering vale And leave no foe alive to tell ...
— Custer, and Other Poems. • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... Anear the centre of that northern crest Stands out a level upland bleak and bare, From which the city east and south and west Sinks gently in long waves; and throned there An Image sits, stupendous, superhuman, 5 ...
— The City of Dreadful Night • James Thomson
... slumbers in His manger, Where the horned oxen fed; Peace, my darling; here's no danger, Here's no ox anear thy bed. ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various
... sirs, bound to yon town am I; No bridge anear, I sit and sit Until these waters have run dry, So that afoot I get to it." "A living parable behold, My friend!" quoth I. "Upon the brim You, too, will gaze until you're old, But never boldly ...
— In the Heart of the Vosges - And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" • Matilda Betham-Edwards
... Don Juan de Palafox [105] in his treatise on the virtues of the Indians, was written from very remote experience; and they were carried away by the holy zeal of their defense as they were deceived [106] by their remote knowledge of the object—as [in viewing] the hills and mountains, which anear are green, but afar are blue. Gold conceals from the sight the degree of its fineness; and one must crush [107] the rock himself, and frequently, in ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 • Francisco Colin
... roaring wind: It did not come anear; But with its sound it shook the sails, That were ...
— English Songs and Ballads • Various
... leave them here, unbroken, Close beside the garden walk; Look!" she said, to Cousin Mary, "Just anear ...
— Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad • Various
... foemen his blunted sword he threw, And, laid like the oars of a longship the level war-shafts pressed On 'gainst the unshielded elder, and clashed amidst his breast, And dead he fell, thrust backward, and rang on the dead men's gear: But still for a certain season durst no man draw anear. For 'twas e'en as a great God's slaying, and they feared the wrath of the sky; And they deemed their hearts might harden if awhile they should ...
— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs • William Morris
... coals we peer, And musing at the luring flames, We watch each isle of crystal green. Anear the billows swirl with rage, 'Mid lashing waves that cope king Fear To strands and sands where elfin games Make rich each midnight's fleecy dream That some Mad wand'ring, goblin sage, Provoked from coffers of each brain, Gleam in each tossing ...
— Betelguese - A Trip Through Hell • Jean Louis de Esque
... the Mosses, and what Mr. Tulliver's done for 'em," said uncle Pullet, who became unusually suggestive where advances of money were concerned. "Haven't they been anear you? They ought to do something as well as other folks; and if he's lent 'em money, they ought to be made to ...
— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot
... said a war-bronzed soldier standing by, who looked doubly grim from the blood trickling down his powder-blackened cheek from a scalp wound received during the morning skirmish. "I stood anear him when he fell, an' God knows I'd rather the bullet had struck me; my fighting days will soon be over, anyhow. But we'll avenge his death afore the day is done. They call us the green tigers, them fellers do, an' there's not a man of ...
— Neville Trueman the Pioneer Preacher • William Henry Withrow
... the whole world sing, Afar, anear, aloud, alow: "What to us will the New Year bring!" Ah! would that each of us ...
— Poems: Patriotic, Religious, Miscellaneous • Abram J. Ryan, (Father Ryan)
... hall; and I will lie near to thee, father, and the wounded friend, lest I be needed to help thee in the night; and thou, Baron of Sunway, lie thou betwixt me and the wood, to ward me from the wild deer and the wood-wights. But thou, Swain of Upmeads, wilt thou deem it hard to lie anear the horses, to watch them if they be ...
— The Well at the World's End • William Morris
... of the sisters, as you see— Another fellow's sister is so very dear to me! I love to work anear her when she's making over frocks, When she patches little trousers or darns prosaic socks; But I draw the line at one thing—yes, I don my hat and take A three hours' walk when she is moved to ...
— Songs and Other Verse • Eugene Field
... swiftness here and there among them. At a sharply curved bight of the river the man could see a little vermilion flame flickering about, and above it a thin blue veil of smoke hanging in the air, and clinging to the boughs of the willows anear; about it were a dozen menfolk clear to see, some sitting, some standing, some walking to and fro, but all in company together: four of were brown-clad and short-skirted like himself, and from above the hand of one came ...
— The Roots of the Mountains • William Morris
... lamp that is lighted, We behold them anear and afar, But not many among them, my brother, Shine steadily on, ...
— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various
... him the speech of the eddies seemed to grow greater as other voices failed. Then arose the wind, and went through the long grass and talked in the crannies of the rock-wall of the Flood as the waters spake below; and none came anear, nor might he hearken any foot of man, only far-off voices from the steads of a barking dog or ...
— The Sundering Flood • William Morris
... besides those contained in the list above, are (or have been) occasionally employed in English as prepositions: as, A, (chiefly used before participles,) abaft, adown, afore, aloft, aloof, alongside, anear, aneath, anent, aslant, aslope, astride, atween, atwixt, besouth, bywest, cross, dehors, despite, inside, left-hand, maugre, minus, onto, opposite, outside, per, plus, sans, spite, thorough, traverse, versus, ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown |
