nearabout

Example Sentences

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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 the two seemingly conversed for a long time, and I was left comparatively alone, until the soldier who had told us of General Herkimer's doings nearabout Johnson Hall, came up.

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

We could do that last if we pleased, for our boat is hidden among the bushes nearabout where Master Jones turned back.

From Corporal 'Lige's Recruit A Story of Crown Point and Ticonderoga by Otis, James

"Very well, but see to it that you heave to when coming nearabout, and remain until getting permission to proceed."

From Commodore Barney's Young Spies A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington 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