How To Use Close at hand In A Sentence
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Though rarely seen, it appears always to be close at hand and never at a loss for means of locomotion and transport.
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In the meantime however, an unholy war looms close at hand.
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While studying, I keep an anthology of one or the other close at hand.
Christianity Today
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She had a solution close at hand.
Times, Sunday Times
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When seen close at hand the walrus is a very ugly monster.
Fast in the Ice Adventures in the Polar Regions
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Our guide kept moving at the same pace, and didn't turn back to face us, or give us any sign that our destination was close at hand.
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some people believe the day of judgment is close at hand
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Thanks muchly - my dad was in the Merchant Navy & my brother sails a 30 footer inshore Lunenburg, Nova Scotia but I didn't get the bug - tho' here its close at hand on all sides.
Quick crossword No 12,715
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I first attended the 2002 meeting in Palermo, Sicily, where the challenge of the mafia was close at hand.
Katherine Marshall: Creating Peace In War Zones: The Roman Catholic Community Of Sant'Egidio
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There are good cafes and a restaurant close at hand.
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Washington, the capital, was close at hand, and often visited, but the family was pre-eminently Virginian.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Every song sounds like a somewhat tuneless reprise, albeit not of itself; one is entitled ‘Nothing Will Ever Be the Same,’ although disproof lies close at hand.
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It makes for a book that kids will adore, grown-ups will pore over, and insipient illustrators will want to keep very close at hand.
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the town is close at hand
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Hark! what's that? — the monks intoning in the chapel close at hand?
The Voyage of Magellan
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Columbus thought that he smelled Oriental spices, which Marco Polo had described as abounding in Cipango; when he walked by the shore and saw the shells of pearl oysters, he believed the island to be loaded with pearls and precious stones; when he saw a scrap of tinsel or bright metal adorning a native, he argued that there was a gold mine close at hand.
Christopher Columbus
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Sometimes, when fishing alongshore with my Indian at the paddle, the canoe would push its nose silently around a point, and I would see the heron's heavy slanting flight already halfway up to the tree-tops, long before our coming had been suspected by the watchful little mother sheldrake, or even by the deer feeding close at hand among the lily pads.
Wood Folk at School
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She had a solution close at hand.
Times, Sunday Times
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The usual accompaniment of the chalk -- small "tufts" of foliage, that become spinneys when close at hand, dot the surface of the great plateau.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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Close at hand stood the familiar ruins of a half - burnt mansion, occupied by French soldiers, with lilac bushes still dark-green by the fence.
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W'y, Miss," answered Jack Molloy, who chanced to be sitting on a spare yard close at hand working a Turk's head on a manrope, "that's the steam-winch, that is the thing wot we uses w'en we wants to hoist things out o 'the hold, or lower 'em into it.
Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan
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Here and there, both on the river and in the fields, other lights were glimmering, whether close at hand or far away, the eye could not distinguish; they shrank together, then suddenly lengthened out into great blurs of light; grasshoppers innumerable kept up an unceasing churr, persistent as the frogs of the Pontine marshes; and across the cloudless, but dark lowering sky floated from time to time the cries of unseen birds.
Dream tales and prose poems
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Simply indulging in whatever pleasures are close at hand will ultimately bring one unhappiness.
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Thanks muchly - my dad was in the Merchant Navy & my brother sails a 30 footer inshore Lunenburg, Nova Scotia but I didn't get the bug - tho' here its close at hand on all sides.
Quick crossword No 12,715
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I think it’s just that Scott Brown’s Cosmo page gives teabaggers the impression that his teabag is close at hand.
Think Progress » Wall Street Investors Lavish Scott Brown’s Campaign With Money, Get Out The Vote Operations
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But keep your wits about you and your binoculars close at hand, for none of these birds is as accommodating as our own home-grown varieties.
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If you fancy yourself an amateur paparazzi, keep your camera close at hand.
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His letter "To the Stocking-Weavers" extended a radical boycott of taxed commodities to paper money, urging workers to keep their savings close at hand "in metal money": "Put it into no funds, no saving banks, no societies, no common stock; for, all these must, at last, rest upon the Paper System, than which a cobweb is not more fragile
William Cobbett and the Politics of System
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The lateral 'skeletonized' evolution of this fractal sequence suggests the final lower very lower high is close at hand.
Did Gladwell Libel Economists?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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I bought a ream of paper and kept it close at hand.
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You have both been most clever, and I will serve as justicer in a court-martial, but" the local Dramurian justicer will sit close at hand so that I may consult with him about local matters.
Alector's Choice
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His fervor echoed the outrage of Bishop Irenaeus—a reminder that here, in the shadow of the stark Red Sea Mountains, the early Christian world is close at hand.
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The electricians had contrived a catchment pool and a wheel in the torrent close at hand -- for the little Mulhausen dynamo with its turbinal volute used by the telegraphists was quite adaptable to water driving, and on the sixth day in the evening the apparatus was in working order and the Prince was calling -- weakly, indeed, but calling -- to his air-fleet across the empty spaces of the world.
The War in the Air
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Graduation day is close at hand.
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And when these had vanished in the distance Graham heard a peewit wailing close at hand.
When the Sleeper Wakes
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On a table next to his chair, close at hand, he kept his collection of tiny soapstone sculptures.
THE X FILES 3: GROUND ZERO
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For the _crop, crop, crop_ of the browsing animals had begun again from close at hand, and the comrades stood listening for some little time while the otherwise unbroken stillness once more reigned.
A Dash from Diamond City
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They palled up with booze and they kept their pal close at hand: a pint in the glove box, a flask on the hip, and most famously, the fifth in the desk.
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As we sailed on a light wind, small islands close at hand slid quickly past and behind them ranges stood immobile on the skyline.
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April air came up sweet and frore from the watermeadows of the Cherwell close at hand.
The Altar Steps
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Noteworthy is the commentary of Gaetano da Thiene, who illustrated much of Heytesbury's abstract reason - ing on uniform and difform motions with examples drawn from nature and from artifacts that might be constructed from materials close at hand.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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January examinations were close at hand, while others were "boning" steadily, doing their level best to stand well in their classes.
Frank Merriwell's Chums
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But keep your wits about you and your binoculars close at hand, for none of these birds is as accommodating as our own home-grown varieties.
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Darkness falls across the land, the midnight hour is close at hand. Creatures crawl in search of blood, to terrorize y'alls neighborhood.
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The tape player and the CD player are left of the phone, with pigeonholes for all the various storage items that Judy needs close at hand.
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It's nice to think that there are a few places, close at hand, where the natural world can live unhampered by man.
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The commanding general wishes to talk to her himself, but it is of low priority, with the fight so close at hand.
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There are more organic sights out back in the parking lot, where Traunfeld has planted raised beds with (currently winterkilled) herbs and greens, keeping his Herbfarm expertise close at hand.
Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue
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The vista's broad sweep was not of much interest to the boys; they were more concerned with details close at hand - a shiny rock, a fluttering bird, a lizard, or a chance to stir up an anthill with a stick.
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Line a second baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat, and keep it close at hand.
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There was a little "cole" or haystack of the smallest sort close at hand.
The Lilac Sunbonnet
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She had a solution close at hand.
Times, Sunday Times
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My father was sitting opposite him, a bottle of Muscadet close at hand.
COASTLINERS
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My hero was close at hand.
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Fortunately the church door was close at hand, but before he entered he was aware that the turncock had joined the throng with three bright instruments over his shoulder, as if his services were likely to be wanted toward the end.
Witness to the Deed
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W'y, Miss," answered Jack Molloy, who chanced to be sitting on a spare yard close at hand working a Turk's head on a manrope, "that's the steam-winch, that is the thing wot we uses w'en we wants to hoist things out o 'the hold, or lower 'em into it.
Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan
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The brickyard was close at hand on the flat beside the Sonoma Creek.
Chapter VIII
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The riders will now travel from stage to stage in comfy captain's chairs, with showers and refreshments close at hand.
Armstrong's tour of duty
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When the European legations were besieged in China's capital it was the Russians, with their garrisons and ships close at hand in Port Arthur, who did most in the raising of the siege.
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Polo had described as abounding in Cipango; when he walked by the shore and saw the shells of pearl oysters, he believed the island to be loaded with pearls and precious stones; when he saw a scrap of tinsel or bright metal adorning a native, he argued that there was a gold mine close at hand.
Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete
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Close at hand, too, there is a reliefless and relentless smell of pitch and turpentine; there is a ceaseless melancholy in their sighing and complaining foliage; one walks over a soundless carpet of beaten yellow bark and dead spines of the foliage till he feels like a wandering spirit bereft of a footfall; he tires of the endless tufts of needles and yearns for substantial, shapely leaves; he looks for moss and grass to loll upon, and finds none, for where there is no bark there is naked clay and dirt, enemies to pensive musing and clean apparel.
Roughing It
