"Close together" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... surrounding symbols. If the consultant has a lucky number, and this appears with good signs, it promises much success. An unlucky number with gloomy signs predicts misfortune. A journey with a five near obviously points out that it will be taken in five days, or weeks, and so on. Ten dots, close together, means ten pounds or shillings, according to the size and number of the dots. Numbers with the symbol of a legacy show ...
— Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves • Cicely Kent
... uniform manner in which the immense mass of shaggy animals moved; there was constancy of action indicating a degree of intelligence to be found only in the most intelligent of the brute creation. Frequently the single herd was broken up into many smaller ones, that travelled relatively close together, each led by an independent master. Perhaps a few rods only marked the dividing-line between them, but it was always unmistakably plain, and each moved synchronously in the direction ...
— The Old Santa Fe Trail - The Story of a Great Highway • Henry Inman
... new-comer among those who walk with him in white, for they are worthy; and then they had that shout of triumph over another soul for whom Satan has struggled fiercely and whom he has forever lost." This said Abbie, as they nestled close together that evening ...
— Ester Ried • Pansy (aka. Isabella M. Alden)
... now going down pretty close together, and nearly on a level, presence and example giving to each nerve and endurance ...
— The Adventures of Don Lavington - Nolens Volens • George Manville Fenn
... called the Benson, where I had a more uninterrupted view, I was astonished at their appearance. They were flying with great steadiness and rapidity, at a height beyond gun-shot, and several strata deep, and so close together, that could shot have reached them, one discharge could not have failed in bringing down several individuals. From right to left as far as the eye could reach, the breadth of this vast procession extended, seeming every where equally crowded. Curious to determine how long this appearance would ...
— Stories about the Instinct of Animals, Their Characters, and Habits • Thomas Bingley
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