nearabout

Example Sentences

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"It was nearabout midnight when we came into this place," Hiram replied to Harvey's question, as if still working out a problem in his mind.

From The Minute Boys of Boston by Otis, James

The main highway, which we traveled for a number of miles, was made of gravel, brought from a considerable stream which, I learn, runs somewhere nearabout.

From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Litsey, Edwin Carlile

There are others nearabout, Fitz Hamilton, who can also make a hurried march, and who knew the country better than do these under my Lord Cornwallis's command.

From The Minute Boys of York Town by Otis, James

"So far as I know, there are no settlers nearabout."

From On the Kentucky Frontier A Story of the Fighting Pioneers of the West by Otis, James

As I figger it, we had best bear off to the westward, strikin' the fort on that side nearabout where the fragment of a bush stands, than to push on for the main gate.

From The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley by Otis, James