Nearhand

We are nearer hand to the great coal districts, and there is a tendency for the men to go there. We are nearer hand to the great mining centres than are those that Mr. Scott represented

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But whether, when he should break his camp at Forney's plantation, he would go northward after Morgan and the prisoners, or cross the river at some nearhand ford to chase our main, none of our scouts could tell us.

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The person discovering the fire will immediately endeavor to extinguish it by the use of the nearest means at hand, such as suffocation by blankets or other material, use of w7ater, or the nearest hand fire extinguisher or pyrene outfit

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And when I was nearhand the house, I met Menie, her daughter, and she told me that they had heard word from Sandy that morning [...].

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