We’ve got a section and a half, nearly a thousand acres, under wheat; we’ve got everything that money can buy in the way of improvements in machinery; we’ve got a home that might fill many a town-bred man with envy, and a mother who denies us nothing; and yet you aren’t satisfied.
— from The Hound From The North by Ridgwell Cullum

So that Paris was delivered up nearly a year before his so-called deposition was produced.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

"Pete never even found out what he'd done until nearly a year later.
— from Helen of the Old House by Harold Bell Wright

Dearest Mammy ,—I have deferred until now answering your kind letter that I might be able to announce to you a little circumstance which took place yesterday, and which, though not of any real importance, may give you and Papa pleasure.
— from The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton. Volume II by Barrington, Russell, Mrs.

We wrote him out a note which would explain his wanderings, got him to deposit us near a Y. M. C. A. tent, and bade him an uncordial “Good-bye.”
— from The Glory of the Trenches by Coningsby Dawson

The band pressed against the tree, and closely embracing it, yields a pretty firm support; while with the arms clasped about the trunk, and at regular intervals sustaining the body, the feet are drawn up nearly a yard at a time, and a corresponding elevation of the hands immediately succeeds.
— from Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville

"No, Mr Tinney, I can't say I do understand; not as you put it.
— from The Coward Behind the Curtain by Richard Marsh