nearabout

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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

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

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

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

General Arnold arrived at Stillwater nearabout three weeks before Colonel Willett rode into that place with the request that assistance be sent as soon as possible to Fort Schuyler.

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