But,' Jal-Nish said inexorably, 'we are in sore need of labour to haul our clankers to the nearest node.

They needed to move the machines more than six leagues to the field of the nearest node, and already man and beast were exhausted.

The nearest node lay not too many leagues to the south.

She looked back at the nearest node, reestablishing contact.

It is the next nearest node in the Empire.

She 'II have to pull power from the nearest node just to Heal herself,he thought, as he felt his way along the submerged path.

And the nearest node - the Monolith's controller, or immediate superior - is 450 light-years away.

Instead, the message is routed towards the physical nearest node that makes progress in the virtual ring.

Elspeth sensed him fumbling a little in his attempt to find the nearest node; she solved his problem by linking him to it herself.

Consider a node which is searching for the nearest node storing an object .