nearness

Other times, it brings hurt, because that nearness is not near enough.

If Prayers Were Horses, Grievers Would Ride - Her Bad Mother 2010

On the other hand, I feel so clearly a certain nearness, spiritually and psychologically, to Henry Stuart–well, I guess there is even an emotional counterpart, too.

Sonny Brewer - An interview with author 2010

But that nearness is better than farness I know: 122

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

It is, in short, nearness to God -- the blessed assurance which God Himself can alone give that He is there, whatever our cold doubts may say -- that the everlasting arms are around us, even when we do not feel their quiet and strong embrace.

Some Facts of Religion and of Life: Sermons Preached before Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland, 1866-76. 1823-1886 1877

(Jer 3: 1, 3; Eze 23: 35), is contrasted with his, who finds happiness in nearness to God (Jas 4: 8), and his delightful work the declaration of

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

The self-discipline that had kept her upright and functioning deserted her, as though his nearness was a drug so potent it robbed her bones of stuffing and reduced her to limp surrender.

The Rich Man's Royal Mistress Donald, Robyn 2006

The self-discipline that had kept her upright and functioning deserted her, as though his nearness was a drug so potent it robbed her bones of stuffing and reduced her to limp surrender.

The Rich Man's Royal Mistress Donald, Robyn 2006

With that animal instinct of nearness, which is neither sight, nor smell, my favorite broncho put forward his ears and whinnied sharply.

Lords of the North 1903

He was like a child coming back to the sense of an enveloping presence: her nearness was a breast on which he leaned.

The Touchstone 1900

He was like a child coming back to the sense of an enveloping presence: her nearness was a breast on which he leaned.

The Touchstone Edith Wharton 1899