nearest

“In the melon bed, on the end nearest the wall, where the sun strikes nearly all day.

The end nearest the wall, you said?”

Then from the ruined wall nearest the jungle rose up the rumbling war-shout of Baloo.

But amidst your concern for the defects of your nearest relations, and your displeasure at this representation of them, let it give you consolation to consider that to have conducted yourselves so as to avoid any share of the like censure is praise no less generally bestowed on you and your eldest sister than it is honourable to the sense and disposition of both.