What is "nearside"

Usage examples of "nearside".

He had managed to keep ahead of whatever pursuers might be behind him, and there was the goal in sight, the log shack that guarded the nearside of the bridge.

With the right reprogramming, the satellite communications relay perched on the edge of nearside could be augmented for much more powerful transmissions.

That hillock had held the first line-of-sight relay antenna to the nearside array.

He should have realized that the protecting wall that shut him off from the rest of Nearside was made of steel, an excellent conductor of electricity.

Occasionally they glimpsed the flash of a sail far out in the middle of the river, an argosy or carrack heading for the war, and one day a machine circled the raft before rising up and flying straight toward the misty line of the nearside shore.

The reaction motor ran out of fuel just as the sun began to free itself from the band of blue haze that marked where the Rim Mountains stood, far beyond the nearside shore of the Great River.

While Tibor drove the pirogue steadily toward the nearside shore, he sat in the stern and leafed through the book he had risked his life to save.

It took a day and a night to paddle the rest of the way to the nearside shore, a patchwork of marshy fields, dense green woods and little villages.

The false sunrise had faded, but the pillar of burning smoke still stood at the vanishing point where the nearside and farside edges of the world seemed to meet, The cloud at its top was spreading out and its light was changing to a ghastly red, but it did not appear to be any dimmer.

The false sunrise had faded, but the pillar of burning smoke still stood at the vanishing point where the nearside and far-side edges of the world seemed to meet, The cloud at its top was spreading out and its light was changing to a ghastly red, but it did not appear to be any dimmer.

It struck the nearside curb and almost drove head-on into the oncoming traffic.

Somebody has to return the flashlight to the people still waiting to cross on the nearside, right?

Now there are three people on the nearside, including Edge, who alone dashes all hope of a seventeen-minute solution.

A vast ocean covered almost everything except the frozen polar caps and the single continent with its archipelago of volcanic islands trailing off to the west, and another, smaller, archipelago in the nearside hemisphere.

Quintaglios but smaller in stature and with yellow skin and eyes, living on an archipelago north of the equator on the nearside hemisphere of the Quintaglio moon.