Traveling a little west of north he might have reached the road at a nearer point.

Soon it passed from view, and she waited breathlessly, until it should appear at a nearer point.

Seen from the nearer point of view, the tittuping horseman seemed curiously out of harmony with his environment.

Etna cannot be seen from here, nor from a nearer point than a mountain six or eight miles distant.

There were no newspapers, that is, during the earlier history of the settlement, published at a nearer point than Albany.

A volley crashed ahead of them some half of a mile away and another volley answered from a still nearer point.

Fort Wood had in it twenty-two pieces of artillery, most of which would reach the nearer points of the enemy's line.