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The chair was close to the window.
They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.
1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:She looked fraught and close to tears.
Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
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fr proche de (near) · vi gần (near) · sq afer (near) · is nálægt (near) · ar بِالْقُرْب مِن (near) · pl obok (near) · la circiter (near) · ga achomair (near) · vi ở gần (near) · pt próximo de (near) · non við (near) · pl blisko (near) · es cerca de (near) · gd goirid do (near) · pt perto de (near) · ar بِجَانِب (near) · arz جنب (near) · fr près de (near) · gd faisg air (near)