Only the summit mattered … when you feel the nearness of the summit, you feel that it's within your reach.

True religion felt the nearness of God without caring to see the mechanism.

And as he stirred ever so slightly he felt the nearness of two souls.

One feels the nearness of Marrakech at Fez, and at

They entered the laurel thicket, and the beast growled as he felt the nearness of his prey.

Julia sat down on the door steps and smelt the good smell of the earth and felt the nearness of it.

The bare willows wove a leafy veil above her head, and beside her she felt the nearness of youth and tempestuous tenderness.

The nearer they got to the hollow the less they could see but the more they felt the nearness of the actual battlefield.

Whatever premonition of his tragic fate he may have had, there is nothing to prove that he felt the nearness of the awful hour.

Her heart sank in the engulfing stillness, at that moment she felt the nearness of death, breathing on her and on the man with her.