But the Tree cried to the Nightingale to press
closer against the thorn.
But each time the smaller won reluctant consent from the other, and so they came
closer and
closer to the last line of workers toiling between the enclosure from which they had come and the hill where Gahan of Gathol lay watching, and then suddenly the smaller figure struck its companion full in the face.
On and on I swam, my heart growing lighter at every stroke, for I knew that I was approaching
closer and
closer to the point where there would be no chance that the waters ahead could be deeper than they were about me.
But even when all these were put up on the masts to catch the wind, the boat did not go nearly as fast as the pirates'--which kept coming on behind,
closer and
closer.
For more than ten years an interminable lawsuit coiled itself
closer and
closer round the place, sequestering it from human habitation, and even from human approach.
When he came
closer he saw it was a Serpent to all appearance dead.
In his uneasiness Huck found himself drawing
closer and
closer to the alley; fearing all sorts of dreadful things, and momentarily expecting some catastrophe to happen that would take away his breath.
Omer; 'to see the way she holds on to him, tighter and tighter, and
closer and
closer, every day, is to see a sight.
Now they were
closer to his village than they had been for years, yet safe enough from discovery owing to the uninhabited nature of the intervening jungle and the fear and enmity of Kovudoo's people for The Sheik, who, in time past, had raided and all but exterminated the tribe.
That night, when supper was finished and they sat on the oblong box and pulled at their pipes, the circle of gleaming eyes drew in even
closer than before.
"The wind is south-south-west, and we can have her up four points
closer to the wind, and still be six points off the wind.
The woman shrank
closer to the man in terror-stricken anticipation of the horrors lying in wait for them in the awful blackness of the nights to come, when they should be alone upon that wild and lonely shore.