near,

Send round for our neighbours; my hour it draws near,

Letter 236 2009

I look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin -- I draw near,

even for a slow lover i am slow truepenny 2007

So the stories that were told, about events planned far and near,

Barack Obama's First 5 Months in Office 2009

Only there's something missing, it's only when you're not near,

Leslie Goldman: Jean + Morty = FOREVER 2008

He's pleaded with me, and of course I'd rather have him near,

Hamlet Adaptation (Act 1, Scene 2) 2008

And when the down of lips and cheeks began to sprout bards and poets sang for him far and near,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Going into this room one evening, when the holidays were very near,

Dombey and Son 2007

Heart, soul could seek, tongue ask — Away with words! draw near,

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 2007

Or, after I have become acquainted with the nature of vision, and know that it has the property of making one and the same thing appear smaller when far off than when near,

On the Improvement of the Understanding 2007

Having the old lady under her hand: in bed: with nobody near,

Vanity Fair 2006