They shouted and sent bullets flying close to my head, the captain wrote.

They were now flying close to the railroad tracks.

The gull was flying close to us now, and a cold wind swept the sunny sea.

Holly skirted the hull of a passenger ferry, flying close enough to feel the engine's pulse.

A cannon ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse.

Looking up, a herdsman saw a bird flying close to the ground and then falling to earth.

That matched the account from the co-pilot of an Avianca plane flying close by at the time.

High winds yesterday prevented them from flying close to mountains, but today the weather was calm and clear.

The guns were excellently aimed, the seven shot flying close over our heads and passing through our sails.

From our frame of reference, time flows extremely slowly on a spaceship flying close to the speed of light.

They said helicopters were flying close over the top of the forest, where there is a network of roads.

I'm making a short movie about BASE jumping, with a focus on flying close to stuff in a wingsuit.

So their quasi-rococo ornament in St Gallen might be surprising, if it wasn't that we like flying close to vulgarity.

Troops of ducks were hastening back to Lake Barnett, flying close, although they knew it not, to Mrs Joliffe's saucepan.

We also did a lot of formation flying close to the ground which trained you to stay close together in formation.

Now he had been high and now low; now almost beyond hearing, now flying close to crashings and shouts and outcries.