From the basketmaker-cooper's porch, a scar-faced woman glared as the column neared.

The column neared the distance until Anna could make out the dusty figure of a man seated on the cart seat.

As the column neared, a searchlight came on from one of the flanking towers.

The chill and darkness became more and more oppressive as the column neared the gentle crest in the high road.

As the small column nears the fighting from the south, Lorn can see his fears have indeed been realized.

The column neared the Sultanate of Damagaram early in April 1898.

By noon the purposeful column was nearing the walls of the town, but no one on either side fired arrows or launched spears.

After that, as the column neared the town, riders and farm wagons passed several times, almost always women, or even girls approaching womanhood.

"This place was called a gravel pit before the war," Brount explained as the column neared the mounds from the north.

As the column neared a crossroads, a woman stood, her ripped blouse streaked with ashes.