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Sentences ending with nigh

But the hour of deliverance draweth nigh. [11]
You shall be allowed to return home in peace; but beware of remaining too long within my reach, lest the thought of the vengeance I owe my father's soul should rouse my anger, and your end draw suddenly nigh. [10]

Sentences containing nigh two or more times

You got the old doctor to go and see her when she come so nigh being bewitched with the magnetism and nonsense, whatever they call it, and the young doctor was so nigh bein' crazy, too. [6]

More example sentences with the word nigh in them

Y' been hurt, y'rself, 'n' the' 's murder come pooty nigh happenin'. [6]
At last it was nigh the hour when their Majesties should arrive. [10]
My own agony was nigh beyond endurance, my will swinging like a pendulum from right to wrong, and back again. [9]
Some insupportable coxcomb was boasting a marvellous run with the hounds nigh across Hertfordshire, and Miss Manners brought him up with a round turn and a half hitch by relating one of your exploits, Richard Carvel. [9]
I was nigh upon seventeen years old; Ann was past seventeen already, and I would have expressed my joy as freely as heretofore but that somewhat lay at my heart, and that was concerning my Ann. [10]
Little, dark-pencilled lines under the eyes were nigh robbing these of the haughtiness I had once seen and hated. [9]
It was nigh two-and-thirty year since he had been there last, and he did hear say there were great changes. [12]
Jen, clear-faced and true, invited him to sit and eat, and he, starting half-abstractedly, responded to her "Draw nigh, Sergeant Tom," and sat down. [11]
Bijah Bixby, over to Clovelly, comes pretty nigh it, too. [9]
Why, jest think--there's thous'n's and thous'n's that ain't nigh so well off. [5]
All we could then learn was that it was Ursula, and none other, whom the lad would still speak of as the She-devil, who had plotted the snare which had well nigh cost my other brother his life. [10]
Go 'long now, the whole kit and biling of ye; and don't come nigh me again till I've got back my peace of mind. [5]
She knew alone that it was nigh irresistible, and she grasped the back of the chair as though material support might sustain her. [9]
The "Ship" had stood in that place nigh on to three-score years, it was said. [9]
He used to stay in his room pretty much all day, but at night he would be off, walking, or riding on horseback, or paddling about in the lake, sometimes till nigh morning. [6]
And whereas I saw that she was nigh swooning I would not have her help; but she gave her help nevertheless, though she held her breath and half turned away her face. [10]
The Maid of Provence carried a handful of guns and a small but carefully chosen crew, together with Sainte-Helene, Perrot, and the lad Maurice Joval, who had conceived for Iberville friendship nigh to adoration. [11]
Weary of the pent-up life, longing for action, and starved for a good meal, the anger of his many followers against Clark and Harrod was nigh as great as his. [9]
Ay, the two of them were here at nigh dawn this morning, and Mr. Allen close after them. [9]
The reading over of papers, the renewal of remembrances brought back the pang of bereavement, and occasioned a depression of spirits well nigh intolerable. [14]
You've come purty nigh, missin' supper. [9]
Howbeit I am nigh upon eighty years of age, and how may I hope to win favor in the exercise of an act to which I am unskilled save in matters of business? [10]
They met again nigh to the road leading to the town. [10]
Who ever comes nigh me with true love and honest trustfulness? [10]
Her falcon eyes never gazed at the ground, but were ever fixed upwards or on the bystanders, and nevertheless her slender bare feet never went nigh the eggs in the wildest spinning of her dance. [10]
The barber soaped my face, and then took his razor and gave me a rake that well nigh threw me into convulsions. [5]
Hunger and external misery came not nigh them, still they had experienced a great change. [10]
According to the Memoirs, Stobo used daily to set out to reconnoitre with Wolfe on the deck of a frigate, opposite the Falls of Montmorency, some French shots were nigh carrying away his "decorated" and gartered legs. [11]
And forsooth, you look at a backwoods urchin, and are nigh to swooning. [9]
My new barn is pretty nigh done. [6]
As for me, I must have seemed well nigh half witted, and I told her at last that I had no skill in such matters, but that I had ever seen him of an evening in a white mantle with a peaked hood. [10]
Last night, when I came home with great gains from play in my pocket, I was nigh to put an end to the woes of this life. [10]
He'll never know how nigh he come to getting lynched. [5]
You brought her home when she come so nigh drowning. [6]
Eliab would give him fuller details; she herself had been well nigh dazed with weeping and anxiety. [10]
Why should not he be the Celebrity, who had taken this name and fled to this retreat to escape from the persecutions of kind friends, who were pricking him and stabbing him nigh to death with their daggers of sugar candy? [6]
Yet though we had not met those we sought, the forest was full of by-ways, by which they might have crossed us on the road; but nigh to the foot-prints of the maid and the old man were there three others. [10]
I had my gun along, but I hadn't shot nothing; it was for protection; thought I would kill some game nigh home. [5]
I come nigh getting caught, and I had to shove it into the first place I come to, and run--and it warn't a good place. [5]
Haven't I took care of him nigh on forty years, and small thanks and recompense I get for it except when you're here. [9]
Come purty nigh bustin' the stage on that road today, and now I'm a-goin' to hev an agent app'inted. [9]
Slowly she came back, as one willing but well nigh helpless. [5]
If indeed thou art nigh, Oh Serapis! [10]
Sellers was bewildered and well nigh paralyzed, himself. [5]
After nigh fourscore and ten years of life that Youth is nearer to me now than many things which befell me later. [9]
What be him and Mr. Grafton a-doing here, sir, plotting all kinds o' crime while the old gentleman's nigh on his back? [9]
It rained indeed and lightened and thundered, yet all was well till, nigh to Saint Linhart, the hail came down, beating on them heavily. [10]
Why not confess, after nigh threescore years, that break of day found me pacing the deserted dock. [9]
I should have a son pretty nigh as old as you if he'd lived, but they listed him for a so'ger--he come back home though, for all he had but one poor leg. [12]
Notwithstanding he was a fine lad, well-grown, and with a countenance of outlandish but well nigh perfect beauty. [10]

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