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- adverb
Close to;nearby .
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Examples
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Why, Pivarts a new name hereabout, brother, isnt it?
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The former, as it grows hereabout, is short and scrubby, with branches nearly to the ground, and looks like the dwindling remnant of a greater race.
Winter Sunshine John Burroughs 1879
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"Why, Pivart's a new name hereabout, brother, isn't it?" she said; "he didn't own the land in father's time, nor yours either, before I was married."
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot 1849
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"Knowest thou where he abideth, or if he doth attend the outpouring of the word hereabout?"
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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You see, hereabout memories of the Cod War are still raw.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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You see, hereabout memories of the Cod War are still raw.
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Most of his ilk hereabout and in society at large are too stupid or too dishonest to do so.
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Frol has satisfied me plenty, but I confess that there be three or four skirts hereabout I would not mind lifting.
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Villa would no longer recognize the countryside hereabout.
Chihuahua: on the trail of Pancho Villa, Mormons, Mennonites, waterfalls and turkeys... 2008
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Villa would no longer recognize the countryside hereabout.
Chihuahua: on the trail of Pancho Villa, Mormons, Mennonites, waterfalls and turkeys... 2008
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