"Close to" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... think so, of course we will, but remember it may cost us our lives. You still want to stay? Very good, then, come along, but stick close to me." ...
— A Bid for Fortune - or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta • Guy Boothby
... to my side, and wound a soft arm about my neck, and drew my head close to her heart, and kissed me many times; and when she had soothed me I looked up and found my mother gloriously glad that ...
— Doctor Luke of the Labrador • Norman Duncan
... believed that the three evangelists did not employ one original Aramaic Gospel. The agreement between the Greek words of the Synoptic Gospels is too close to be explained by the use of an Aramaic original. The real controversy, therefore, lies between the scholars who support theory ...
— The Books of the New Testament • Leighton Pullan
... you are old enough and grave enough to be our father. I always thought you a hundred years old, Harry, with your solemn face and grave air. I feel as a sister to you, and can no more. Isn't that enough, sir?" And she put her face quite close to his—who knows ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray
... moments before, a stout, healthy man, was nothing but an inanimate form. As the "black cap" was about being put on him, Sarah Ann Weaver, the youngest daughter of the murdered man, Adam Weaver, made her appearance inside the square, and quite close to the scaffold. She asked Captain Goodwin and Major Wiles the privilege of adjusting the rope around his neck, but they would not grant it. She is a young woman of about seventeen years, rather prepossessing ...
— Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive • Alf Burnett
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