How To Use Nearest In A Sentence
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If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex.
Goodnight Tweetheart
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Unless a guide is along for the ride, it's all too easy to overshoot the reef and find yourself in green water, 200 feet above the nearest marine life.
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Our nearest relatives, the chimps tend towards matrilinear, while patrilinear seems more prevalent in a majority of the different aboriginity groups in more modern times.
Discovered: the basis of human civilization.
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I'd chase along the street nearest the river, dodging out side streets to the riverbank.
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Have you failed to hear a word he's said since he swept you off your perfectly pedicured feet and into the nearest watering hole?
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Eggs were labeled with a permanent marker, candled to estimate the stage of development, weighed to the nearest 0.5 g using a spring scale, and measured (length and width) to the nearest 0.1 mm with calipers.
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He's the nearest thing to a film star I've ever met.
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A rain squall dimmed the ward, and he closed the two nearest windows.
THE OPEN DOOR
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Some of those nearest to him fell naturally into the habit of referring to him as “the King,” and in time the title crept out of the immediate household and was taken up by others who loved him.
Mark Twain: A Biography
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He urged any member of the community with information to contact the nearest police station.
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It is the soleras (nearest to floor) that contain the oldest brandy.
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He gripped the edge of the nearest inspection plate and ripped a quarter of it away.
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Three oldish men from among the high-somebodies stood nearest him, watching him as a magpie watches a cat.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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He jumped off the bus and made a dash for the nearest bar.
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With the hippogryph trailing her, Tyrande led Broll to the nearest of the dwellings.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
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By contrast, to reach our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, you'd need only twenty-five Milky Ways.
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He measured the distance to the nearest Antarctic coast, and onwards to the South Pole.
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The medial stripe, nearest the midline, which becomes the ventral region of the neural tube, gives rise to motor neurons, whereas the lateral stripes give rise to interneurons and sensory neurons.
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Some few of these ships had catapult-launched Hurricane fighters - the nearest equivalent to the suicidal Japanese kamikaze planes that Britain ever had.
San Andreas
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You know how it is, when you're sitting out in the dark, 50 kilometres from the nearest place of inhabitation, and you turn on the light, even the tiniest little three LED gizmo.
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When she discovered they were also out of half-fat coconut milk, the red mist descended and she let rip at the nearest shelf-stacker.
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‘So,’ she began turning to the nearest scryers, ‘What dreamscape are we going into next?’
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To-day I became strongly impressed with the idea, that the balloon was now actually running up the line of apsides to the point of perigee -- in other words, holding the direct course which would bring it immediately to the moon in that part of its orbit the nearest to the earth.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
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Anheuser has posted double-digit profit gains for 20 straight quarters, while its nearest competitors, Coors and Miller, have flatlined.
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This new website can book them a berth in a marina, get them an insurance quote and identify the nearest marine surveyor.
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The nearest distraction is probably the Concord Turnpike, a half mile north of the pond.
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Alex Ferguson picking up top coach last year was the nearest we've been to basking in any reflected tartan glory since Liz McColgan did the biz in 1991.
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Then get him a ride home, or failing that, plunk him on the nearest sofa.
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But then I needed their attentiveness, as I was collapsed and semi-conscious at the top of a frozen wasteland, the nearest settlement being miles down the mountain.
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One particular plant of the zellernut type grown in one of my city lots during the last season was very well filled with pistillate blossoms and not one catkin on it, and still it ripened a fairly good crop of perfect nuts, where the nearest plants filled with staminate blossoms was at least 30 feet from it.
Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
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I fed them myself," answered uncle Nathan, patting a white star on the forehead of the nearest animal, as he lay upon his knees half buried in the rich aftergrowth.
The Old Homestead
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But before anyone heads to the nearest hive, bewarned-scientific tests show that apian venom is not the bees' knees.
Times, Sunday Times
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'I was told – I was assured –' said Bellamy, 'that a mad bull was running wild about the country; and I thought it, therefore, advisable to send for a chaise from the nearest inn, that I might return this young lady to her friends.'
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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The farm is isolated; the nearest house is 30 kilometers away.
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Extending it out to 30 or even 50 or so light years which would then include nearest giants, Pollux - & its exoplanet "Polydeuces" (34 ly) Capella (42 ly)plus other sun-like F & G type dwarfs would be fantastic.
32 Nearby Stars
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A sweepstake was held among rugby scribes in Sydney for the final between Australia and some other mob, the money going to the correspondent predicting the correct score, or nearest.
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The first window -- _i. e._ the westernmost window nearest to the slype -- is a memorial to J. Francillon, Esq., a judge of the county court, who died in 1866.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
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Ellery wandered up and down, picking up shells and sea clams, and peering through the nets of the nearest weir at the "horsefoot crabs" and squid and flounders imprisoned in the pound.
Keziah Coffin
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He ambled over to the nearest tree - happily some metres from where I stood hidden, and turned towards the tower.
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The former Really Wild Show presenter "craved" fresh air, but the nearest natural light source was back at the surface - 12 hours 'climb away.
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With a curse, Adrina kicked her mount forward and leaned down to reach for the reins of the nearest beast.
TREASON KEEP
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Jules Galdea explained to us that these revolving fan-like wheels on top of the cars destroyed atmospheric pressure, or what is generally understood by the term gravitation, and with this force thus destroyed or rendered nugatory the car is as safe from falling to one side or the other from the single rail track as if it were in a vacuum; the fly wheels in their rapid revolutions destroying effectually the so-called power of gravitation, or the force of atmospheric pressure or whatever potent influence it may be that causes all unsupported things to fall downward to the earth's surface or to the nearest point of resistance.
The Smoky God, or: A Voyage to the Inner World
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In fact, you might just want to cut out the middleman and head on over to the nearest cemetery - your dream date may in fact have been skulking around the local sepulchres, and you never even knew.
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In search of a routine, he touched base with his launderette, his post office, his nearest market.
BABYCAKES
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When he came nearest to the scientific spirit of his time, in zealous observations of the life of nature, he characteristically concentrated on the sequence of various bird notes at daybreak and the flight of moths as the stars of twilight were kindled.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1923 - Presentation Speech
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Rudy grabbed him on the shoulder and propelled him towards the nearest fence post.
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-- The vulgar word humorsome comes nearest to the meaning.] -- And sings a sweet song, though it is somewhat of the longest.
The Monastery
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It's been bootlegged quite a lot though--check out your nearest record fair.
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With an economy three times the size of its nearest competitor (Japan), it still sets the global tone for consumption and growth.
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With the increasing of temperature, the degree of ion associate increases, the number of water nearest the ion decreases, and the multinuclear ions structure appears.
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That's the nearest approach to an apology you'll get from him.
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His eyes were shut, and he was in that hot borderland which is the nearest approach to sleep at noontide in Nigeria.
Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
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A large fat possum was caught in bright blue light, hissed and ran up the nearest tree.
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It's a beautiful cottage not more than five minutes from the nearest beach.
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With unemployment topping 12% in Columbia County, Greg Hinkelman, city manager of Clatskanie, the nearest town to St. Helens, said both coal terminals would be welcome, providing what he terms "living-wage jobs.
Coal Fuels a Fight in Oregon
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Where's the nearest bridge across the river?
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Each flower was dissected with the aid of a stereoscope and length of individual parts (sepals, petals, anthers, filaments, styles, and ovaries) was measured to the nearest 0.1 mm using an ocular reticle.
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Some one went off in the motor to the nearest chemist's shop and returned presently with two large pieces of bread, liberally dosed with narcotic.
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The nearest paved road is an hour away; in winter, the maze of rutted dirt truck trails hereabouts is nearly unnavigable.
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Which is the nearest fossil relative of a chicken: pterodactyl, tyrannosaurus or woolly mammoth?
Times, Sunday Times
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He measured the distance to the nearest Antarctic coast, and onwards to the South Pole.
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The world champion finished more than two seconds ahead of his nearest rival.
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The plan was to trek down the mountain, cut through the forest to the nearest town and then try to build a new life.
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A proposal known as stratospheric aerosol insertion suggests that chemicals - sulfur dioxide, in this case - sprayed into the Earth's nearest atmospheric levels could bind with other chemicals to reflect sunlight from the Earth.
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How montbretia, a native of the South Africa veld, became established – miles from the nearest garden – is a mystery, but its orange blooms, as incandescent as coal in a furnace, added a fiery hue to a hot afternoon.
Country diary: Durham coast
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The branches of the nearest trees practically touch our home, ever beckoning us into the hundred acre wood.
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A supervised pattern classification technique called nearest neighbor algorithm is finally performed in the lower-dimensional eigenspace for recognition.
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For more than a decade, the nearest university students came to rebellion was to sneak extra books out of the library so they could cram in some more studying.
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He picked it up and thrust it with a scowl into the hands of the nearest steward.
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In case of fire, walk quickly to the nearest door.
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The grandest, the undermanagers, overmen, engineers and surveyors lived nearest the colliery in streets with names: Thompson, Grant, West View.
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Now, alas, he is married and the nearest he gets to the fifties is his age - he's 45 and rising.
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By those who rest knowledge immediately upon sense, that explanation of human action is deemed to be the truest which is nearest to sense.
Theaetetus
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The nearest he got to a criminal act was the day he forgot his house keys and broke into his own home using a credit card with nonchalant ease.
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A metal bucket fell from the sky, braining the nearest bug.
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At the other end of the ‘globus intellectualis,’ nearest, not to earth and sense, but to heaven and God, is the personality of man, by which he holds communion with the unseen world.
Theaetetus
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When the previous government proposed cuts to the permanent collection of the British Library — the nearest thing we have to a national memory — it became clear how little this notion had registered with red-pencil types.
A Debate Over Books and Sequestered Nooks
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Dignity in Dying wants to make a clear separation from the term suicide, which does carry with it, among other things, suicide is a colossal act of aggression against the nearest and dearest.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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He ground his left heel into the nearest instep to send the youth hopping away, clutching his foot.
FINAL RESORT
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After each vision I would find the nearest church, seek sanctuary, kneel, and pray the rosary.
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A bar, and a liquor store were the auto shop's nearest neighbors.
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His face contorted in fury at the murder of his kinsmen, and with a shrill cry he leapt at the nearest of the ogrish guards.
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He beat his closest/nearest rival by 20 marks.
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Of all the cetacea, that which approaches the nearest in form to man is undoubtedly the dugong, which, when its head and breast are raised above the water, and its pectoral fins, resembling hands, are visible, might easily be taken by superstitious seamen for a semi-human being.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829
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Find out from your Local Council or recycling action group where your nearest collection points are for glass, metals and paper.
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Roo lifted one sleepy eyelid, then closed it again as she made her way to the padded bench in the nearest dormer.
THIS HEART OF MINE
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But the young man was prepared, and turning he ran with the swiftness of a hare toward the nearest tree, a huge, arboraceous fern towering upon the verge of the little clearing.
The Eternal Savage
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This paper presents a novel double-talk detector ( DTD ) based on ra nearest neighbor line ( NNL ) classifier.
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Thinking quickly, I grabbed Jared by the arm and ducked into the nearest classroom.
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Suddenly, he grabs her savagely by the arm and throws her at the nearest wall.
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What we term villages barely exist, and the nearest approach to them is a group of farms with a church in the neighbourhood.
Peeps at Many Lands: Norway
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People wishing to enroll in the study should request a referral from their doctors or call the nearest participating hospital.
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With unemployment topping 12% in Columbia County, Greg Hinkelman, city manager of Clatskanie, the nearest town to St. Helens, said both coal terminals would be welcome, providing what he terms "living-wage jobs.
Coal Fuels a Fight in Oregon
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The nearest bank is about half a mile down the road.
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The village is so far from the river that their water has to be pumped in from the nearest water supply.
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God takes up the argument begun by Elihu (who came nearest to the truth) and prosecutes it in inimitable words, excelling his, and all other men's, in the loftiness of the style, as much as thunder does a whisper.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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I ran pell-mell down the bleachers, forgetting about my supposedly sprained ankle, and grabbed the nearest fan.
The Dark Side of Innocence
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From Delhi, the nearest railhead to Bandhavgarh is Umaria, 35 km away.
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I also include the litter droppers and the tippers of rubbish in the nearest convenient place for them, the latter being outside of the park at the moment.
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A tall, lithe, rather rakishly clad coatimundi stood nearest the wagon, gesturing animatedly in the merchant's direction with a thin rapier.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson
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Here they re-live the life of a pioneer in the wilderness, when the nearest living soul was 20 miles away.
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Grab the nearest towel (a washcloth will substitute in a pinch) and frantically rub the shampoo up off the floor.
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They then aggressively charged the buildings and objects nearest them.
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Sky and water turned leaden grey and we headed for the safety of the nearest island.
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I threw a thunderflash firecracker within a few yards of them & all they did was to retreat behind the nearest bush.
Ancestral Passions
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Already Woods has been quoted at 5/2 for the title with Ernie Els and Vijay Singh the nearest challengers on 10/1 and 18/1 respectively.
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The leather nearest the butt and spine is the best on the hide.
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If any walls appear to lean, check by going back to the nearest upper window and drop a plumb line down.
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The Canaries were the nearest bits of dry land to us, but Mr Jellicoe, the third mate, reckoned that they were a good hundred and fifty miles away, and dead to wind'ard; so it was useless for us to think of reaching them in a boat with her gunnels awash, and not a scrap of food or a drop of fresh water in her.
Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru
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I wont tu ryde mi buy-cicle, I wont tu ryde mi byke, I wont tu ride mi buy-cicle, I wont o ride it to da nearest kitteh for a snorglefest!
Lolcat IRL - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Rolling over and stretching, she reached for the nearest curtain and threw it back, letting in a dark light, due to the overcast skies and rainy weather.
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I went to the nearest deli and came back with a ham sandwich and a large container of coffee.
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'If a prince of Eldorado should come, with a pedigree of lineal descent from some signory in the moon in one hand, and a ticket of good-behaviour from the nearest Independent chapel, in the other' --?
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
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The farm is isolated; the nearest house is 30 kilometers away.
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I calculated angles and distances and located the nearest exit.
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'Moat-cock' would be prettier, and characteristic; for in the old English days they used to live much in the moats of manor-houses; mine is the name nearest to the familiar one; only note there is no proper feminine of 'pullus,' and I use the adjective 'pulla' to express the dark color.
Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
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The pilot set the aircraft up for a diversion to the nearest suitable airfield.
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a distant lymphatic prematurely expels her ova; these act as emboli to the nearest lymphatic glands, whence ensues stasis of lymph, regurgitation of lymph, and partial compensation by anastomoses of lymphatic vessels; this brings about hypertrophy of tissues, and may go on to lymphorrhoea or chyluria, according to the site of the obstructed lymphatics.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
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Moreover, the animals and the plants inhabiting oceanic islands bear the greatest similarity to species found on the nearest mainland.
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He punched the guard nearest to him in the face and aimed an uppercut punch just below his jaw.
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Mr. Satterthwaite floundered wildly in Italian interspersed with German -- the nearest he could get in the hurry of the moment to Spanish - He was desolated and ashamed, he explained haltingly.
Autumn Maze
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It's a beautiful house but it's 20 miles away from the nearest town.
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They have no support workers to collect the rubbish that they gather; instead they carry their full dustpans across the busy streets to empty them in the nearest dustbins.
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Shoshonite nearest the contact with the overlying flow is scoriaceous and, being less weather resistant, has eroded back to form a conspicuous bench.
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The marchers distributed handbills to onlookers, pedestrians, commuters and motorists inviting them to the crusade at sites nearest to their homes.
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The nearest thing was an old church with a belltower, and we headed for that.
"THE WAR" -- EXCERPT FROM "GINNY BATES"
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This low coverage is, of course, largely due to the considerable distance of much of the population from the nearest registration office.
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He had handled his Indian scouts and dealt with the "bronco" Indians, the renegades from the tribes, in circumstances of extreme peril; for he had seen the sullen, moody Apaches when they suddenly went crazy with wolfish blood-lust, and in their madness wished to kill whomever was nearest.
The Rough Riders
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Where's the nearest supermarket?
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We are social creatures, and as well as taking responsibility for ourselves we are charged with the duty of looking out for our nearest and dearest.
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For Surrey to miss out on the title nearest challengers Glamorgan have to win their final two games against Surrey and Derbyshire, and even then Sussex would only need three points from their remaining match at Worcester next week to be crowned champions.
Cricinfo news from Cricinfo
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In my time, the nearest we got to a trophy was winning the old second division.
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[341] Catiline himself stood nearest the standard (eagle) with his most faithful followers, whose personal fate depended upon him; that is, the freedmen of his family and the tenant farmers of his estates.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
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The nearest common ancestor of man and the modern great apes died out about 30 million years ago.
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The angle of pinnation was found by placing a protractor along the central tendon and measuring the angle of an individual fiber to the nearest 0.5 degree.
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We determined the phylogenetic position of this strain within the genus Wolbachia to ascertain its nearest relatives.
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But when Matthew simply stood there unresponsively, she pursed her lips together and gently led him to the nearest chair.
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To hang a Union Flag up correctly the thick white stripe should be at the top of the flag nearest the flagpole and otherwise at the top on the left.
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‘This is Shadowspirit, named after both his dam and sire,’ Lium said proudly, rubbing his hammy hand against the flanks of the huge horse nearest him.
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He ground his left heel into the nearest instep to send the youth hopping away, clutching his foot.
FINAL RESORT
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I didn't really care, and stuffed a gag in her mouth using the nearest cloth I could find.
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She pulled away from my grasp and leaned against the nearest tree, shuddering and gasping for breath as she sobbed into her hands.
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The fraction was then multiplied by 100 and rounded to the nearest half or whole number.
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We are told that each curtain needs to be the width of the track or pole, but this is only an approximate measurement as curtains are made to the nearest half width of fabric.
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On the other hand, it is possible to obtain potable water, filing a request with the community and paying a fee and purchasing a hose to connect to the community water supply to the property, connecting with the nearest neighbor.
Land for sale / Terreno en venta Tirio, Michoac�n
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The eight men on the ground, still four hundred yards from the nearest fires, made their next decision in double-quick time.
BARRACUDA 945
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It is an eight-day walk from the nearest town to the earliest gold fields, and the only way to bring in supplies is on the backs of native porters.
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No sooner did the nearest brig open her fire, and that within short canister range, than the ship and her consort hauled in again on the southern flank of the battery, the smallest vessel leading, and feeling her way with the lead.
The Crater
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We had a swimming pool while our nearest rivals were still jumping in puddles.
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Points to note. 'her' chair is code for 'the nearest chair to her desk'.
Army Rumour Service
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After weeks aboard a battlebus that ran on recycled cooking oil, Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, learned she had trounced her nearest Labour rival by 1,200 votes.
Observer Ethical Awards: Caroline Lucas, Ethical Politician Award
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She was 2 minutes faster than her nearest rival .
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You put the whole concatenation into the largest cauldron you've got, stir well, dance three times moonwise around the nearest deposit of nickel-zinc and ... but enough secrets, lad.
A Corridor in the Asylum
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He tried to open an account at the branch of his bank nearest to his workplace.
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The nearest university is a six to eight hours drive, so many of the children go on to work in a nearby factory doing menial labour.
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When the snapping feature is enabled it pulls your playhead to the nearest edit, or when dragging clips, "magnetically" pulls them together.
Doggdot.us
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People who need cataract surgery are taken by bus to the nearest hospital for surgery, and returned home the next day.
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The offices of the two ministers of the law were at about equal distance, and resort was had to a surveyor's chain, to ascertain which was nearest.
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I could tell that not being with in fifty miles of the nearest electrical outlet was driving her crazy.
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Then she pummelled Clare's pillow and kicked clumsily against the nearest wall with her booted feet.
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It is the nearest thing to a passive recipiency -- is it not?
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
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Hence, these items are either procured from the nearest "kirana" store or from the nearby "small vendors" at a higher frequency in a week.
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‘The moral being — I believe that’s the right expression — of this exemplary person, derived its highest gratification from anathematizing his nearest relations and turning them out of doors.
Our Mutual Friend
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Possibly a little bracing if your nearest stretch of coast is in Britain.
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Uncontaminated surface water run-off and rainwater from roofs shall be collected separately from slurry and shall be disposed of directly to the nearest drain, ditch, soakpit or watercourse.
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So I turned to the chelloveck nearest me on the big plush seat that ran right round the whole mesto, a chelloveck, that is, who was burbling away under the influence, and I fisted him real skorry ack ack ack in the belly.
Where's the show?
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Excuse me, which way is it to the nearest town?
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After the nurse stitched the wound with a sewing needle and cotton thread, the mother and baby were transferred and treated by Dr King and his colleagues at the nearest hospital.
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I have arranged for my branch to send a letter of credit to the branch nearest the hotel.
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And the nearest I come to a bonbon is the occasional after dinner mint, which I usually end up eating after breakfast, after lunch, after a mid-afternoon snack ...
McCook Daily Gazette Headlines
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The pitfall trap or the nearest pit for turtles at the fence was also recorded in order to calculate a minimum straight-line travel distance from the release point using the Pythagorean theorem.
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Olivia, for no reason she could think of, sat in the nearest chair and wrote the word widowed on the napkin, under the name Rodriguez.
Starting from Scratch
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The Pilbara has boomed in recent years as China's voracious demand for iron ore to feed its construction-driven economy has put a premium on ore from the region, the country's nearest overseas source of high-quality ore.
Rio Tinto Plans $3.1 Billion Iron Ore Expansion
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They wandered off in the direction of the nearest store.
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In some of his trysts, he adopted the persona of his famous novel's protagonist; in a 1765 letter to "Lady P" he wrote, "There is a strange mechanical effect produced in [being] within a stonecast of the lady who engrosses the heart and soul of an inamorato - for this cause have I, Tristram Shandy, come forth from my lodgings to a coffee-house the nearest I could find to my dear Lady's house.
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He ambled over to the nearest tree - happily some metres from where I stood hidden, and turned towards the tower.
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The two women whose yards adjoined the Misses Marions 'yard came down to the separating fences and leaned their arms on the paling rails waitingly; the third woman moved up to the corner of her yard which was nearest the Misses Marion.
Sally of Missouri
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Woody stem diameters were measured with calipers to the nearest millimeter immediately above the root collar.
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For further assistance on how these changes can affect your clientele , please do not hesitate to contact your local RCI office nearest you.
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Rudy grabbed him on the shoulder and propelled him towards the nearest fence post.
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For the cording amount, add the measurements of the upper and lower shade edges and round up to the nearest 1/8 yard.
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Nearest store to buy an iPhone from South Bay BMW is on 182nd and Hawthorne Blvd.
I Phone vs Blackberry | South Bay BMW – LA Bimmer Insider
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Here in Denmark, most bike lanes have their own curbstone to separate them from the nearest car lane.
It’s crowded out there.
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The nearest Gould comes to the issue is: "He [Casey] did not approve those activities and he never expressed to North or anybody else his approval of those clandestine, illegal, delictual, immoral activities.
'Rewriting the Iran-Contra Story': An Exchange
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I dismount and thrust self and Trekkie behind the nearest maple.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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Which I most certainly am not, as nearest and dearest, and gangs of so-called friends will confirm.
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I'm told that I am crazy to think of moving to a really rural location, miles from the nearest town and the closest hospital.
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On the opposite side of the house, several hundred yards away, the country turnpike ran; and from this there now reached them the rumbling of many vehicles, hurrying in close procession out of the nearest town and moving toward smaller villages scattered over the country; to its hamlets and cross-roads and hundreds of homes richer or poorer -- every vehicle Christmas-laden: sign and foretoken of the
Bride of the Mistletoe
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An aircraft would only have to head for the nearest flying or gliding club of which there are six in this area.
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My uncle is my nearest relative.
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Until the doors of the new York Brewery pub opened, the nearest pint was served at the Huntsman Inn, Cattal, due to the strict nature of York's tied pubs.
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The nearest public conveniences in Chantry Lane do not have any disabled facilities.
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Deflection angles of terminal segments relative to the sub-terminal segments were measured to the nearest 2° with a protractor attached to the apparatus after each additional weight was added.
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She aimed at the woman nearest her, a skinny creature with beetroot burns beneath gold jewelry.
THE RHYTHM SECTION
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I brought the table measurements, the fabric, a roll of striped grosgrain ribbon and a rough drawing to the nearest upholsterer.
Decorating Dynamo: The Table Skirt
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Once the fish is hooked and the line comes tight the pollack will turn and dive for the nearest cover.
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There are then two unattached cords of some strength, called the pull line and the forked line, which latter is attached, when required for use, to the two staves nearest the birdcatcher, at the intersection of the top line.
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
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As Mike walked over to the nearest wall-mounted phone, I glanced nervously into the treatment area.
NIGHT SISTERS
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And so, as it appeared, Mr. Dallas was of that opinion, for the very next day he applied to Chancery for a brieve to get Charles Napier served nearest and lawful heir to his uncle; and as in legal warfare, where the judges are cognisant only of patent claims, there is small room for retiring tactics, Mr. White felt himself obliged, however anxious he was to gain time, to follow his opponent's example by taking out a competing brieve in favour of Henrietta.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII
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That's the nearest approach to an apology you'll get from him.
