So the Nightingale pressed
closer against the thorn, and louder and louder grew her song, for she sang of the birth of passion in the soul of a man and a maid.
The shining object still lured him on and when he had come
closer to it his eyes went wide in surprise, for the thing they saw was naught else than the jewel-encrusted emblem upon the prow of a small flier.
Closer and
closer I came to it, but I had crossed but little more than half the chamber when the figure stirred, and, as I sprang, rose and faced me.
She clung the
closer to him, but neither lifted up her face, nor spoke a word.
But which one he could not know without
closer investigation, and so he waited, with the dogged patience of a beast of prey, until night had fallen.
With the coming of night in the mid-afternoon, the cries sounded
closer as the pursuers drew in according to their custom; and the dogs grew excited and frightened, and were guilty of panics that tangled the traces and further depressed the two men.
The boys shouted at the plaintive tone in which Rose repeated the words that offended her, and Will vainly endeavoured to explain that he only meant to tell her to wrap her cloak
closer, and tie a veil over the tempest-tossed feathers in her hat.
Closer and
closer it came until they could hear the great beast directly beneath them.
When she had first seen the anchored ship upon the quiet water, Jane Clayton's heart had beat fast with hope and thanksgiving, but as she drew
closer to the craft and saw that it was the Kincaid, her pleasure gave place to the gravest misgivings.
In transcribing his notes and fortifying their claim to attention by giving them something of an orderly arrangement, I have conscientiously refrained from embellishing them with such small ornaments of diction as I may have felt myself able to bestow, which would not only have been impertinent, even if pleasing, but would have given me a somewhat
closer relation to the work than I should care to have and to avow.
The frost was working out of the ground, and out of the air, too, and it was getting
closer and
closer onto barefoot time every day; and next it would be marble time, and next mumbletypeg, and next tops and hoops, and next kites, and then right away it would be summer and going in a-swimming.
Over the dark water there would gather a thin, transparent mist; and though, in the distance, night would be looming, and seemingly enveloping the entire horizon, everything
closer at hand would be standing out as though shaped with a chisel--banks, boats, little islands, and all.
