They alighted out of the coach
near a small foot-path in a field, and Glumdalclitch setting down my travelling box, I went out of it to walk.
The sudden near concussion, the last close upon the first, made my heart jump.
Simultaneously two other shells burst in the air near the body as the hood twisted round in time to receive, but not in time to dodge, the fourth shell.
I think, I may say, that for the next fortnight I was near to distracted.
I waited a week, and two weeks, and with much surprise and amazement I waited near two months and heard nothing, but that, being recovered, he was gone into the country for the air, and for the better recovery after his distemper.
I confess I now gave myself over for lost, and all that I had; the loss of my effects did not lie so near me, though very considerable, as the thoughts of falling into the hands of such barbarians at the latter end of my journey, after so many difficulties and hazards as I had gone through, and even in sight of our port, where we expected safety and deliverance.
In five days more we came to Veussima, upon the river Witzogda, and running into the Dwina: we were there, very happily, near the end of our travels by land, that river being navigable, in seven days' passage, to Archangel.
I soon found the place I was in was not fit for my settlement, because it was upon a low, moorish ground, near the sea, and I believed it would not be wholesome, and more particularly because there was no fresh water near it; so I resolved to find a more healthy and more convenient spot of ground.
sun, or thereabouts, which, in those countries, is near the setting.
Saying which, Captain Nemo went towards a piece of furniture standing near the left panel of the saloon.
"Near the Island of Santorin, sir," replied the Captain.
I wrote it before I went to bed, and went out and posted it; and again no one was
near me.
The man was older, dark, with an evil face made more forbidding by a long scar extending from
near the left temple diagonally downward into the black mustache; though in my dreams it seemed rather to haunt the face as a thing apart--I can express it no otherwise--than to belong to it.
I walked a long time, and when I thought I had nearly done enough, and might conscientiously yield to the fatigue that almost overpowered me--might relax this forced action, and, sitting down on a stone I saw
near, submit resistlessly to the apathy that clogged heart and limb--I heard a bell chime--a church bell.
Shaking off the sleet from my ice-glazed hat and jacket, I seated myself
near the door, and turning sideways was surprised to see Queequeg
near me.
