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1 Once they came perilously near the Earl and his partner; nothing else.
2 Ernest saw that she was getting perilously near the facts and considered.
3 Their conversation was approaching perilously near the forbidden topic of de Courtois.
4 There were moments when they came perilously near loving the aggravating creature.
5 At the next heave a second bullet went zipping past, perilously near .
6 My lord threw, and his bowl stopped perilously near the shining mark.
7 From McClellan, Lincoln endured much condescension of a kind perilously near impertinence.
8 The afternoon was almost over and the sun perilously near the western horizon.
9 Time ceased and the beginning of things came perilously near to the end.
10 A flame sputtered as it burned perilously near a resinous twig.
11 Aunt Bell flounced on into the library, trailing something perilously near a sniff.
12 Weigall tugged powerfully, his own feet dragged perilously near the edge.
13 He was perilously near to being bowled over completely and literally.
14 Instantly a wild thrill passed through me, and I came perilously near blushing.
15 Two or three bullets whizzed past them perilously near their heads.
16 Harry leaped back, near, perilously near , the edge of the ravine.
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