You mighty nigh scared me out of a year's growth," grumbled Pap, hitching vainly to throw his chair back into position.

I think the Continental line's pretty nigh played out.' He heaved a sigh and glanced in the direction of his empty glass.

"When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

Who, for her apathy, would lose The sacred power to weep? Tho' in a thousand objects, pain, And pleasure tremble nigh, Those objects strive to reach, in vain, The circle of her eye.

So pleaseth she whoever cometh nigh her, She gives the heart a sweetness through the eyes Which none can understand who doth not prove.

Beside him rode Hippolita the queen, And Emily attired in lively green, With horns, and hounds, and all the tuneful cry, To hunt a royal hart within the covert nigh: 230 And as he follow'd Mars before, so now He serves the goddess of the silver bow.

Sickness, debt and loneliness oppressed him, making creative work well-nigh impossible.

"But suddenly a silence came About the Table Round, For up the hall there walked a dame Bent nigh unto the ground.

Retreat was impossible, and with their horses failing one after another, they toiled on, desperate and well-nigh hopeless.

The result is something not quite so meagre in quantity or staccato in style, though even now less full than I should have liked to make it, had it been other than the work of an unknown writer telling the story of a small archipelago which is at once the most distant and well-nigh the youngest of English states.

Another draweth nigh; his brow is crowned With coronet of gold; he is the King, Their royal father, and he lays his hand In blessing on their heads, and names them both His joy, his dearest treasure.

The large eastern promontory, well-nigh as long as the northern portion, is nearly cut in half by two deep bays, which, starting from opposite points on the south-eastern and north-western coasts, almost merge their waters in the center of the peninsula; the Bay of Ragay, and the Bay of Sogod.

Taking out his watch again, he put it in the passive hands of the astonished priest, saying, "Time me," cleared his throat, and began: "Fourteen years ago there was a ship cruisin' in the Pacific, jest off this range, that was ez nigh on to a Hell afloat as anything rigged kin be.

Their misty meadows flicker nigh, No singing with the spray is borne, All that is long gone by.

Now, when you have chosen those three knights, we four will take hiding in some wood or glade nigh to the place of combat, and when you are most busily engaged, and when you begin to be hard-pressed, then we will come forth and fall upon the flank of the party of the King of North Wales with intent to throw them into confusion.

Glorious wicked nigh'.

The father, Aaron Lyon, was a godly man, beloved by all his neighbors,"the peacemaker," he was called,who died at forty-five, leaving his little family well-nigh helplessno, not helpless, because the mother was of the same material of which Eliza Garfields are made.

D ark frowning clouds obscure thy sky, E ach future prospect fades; B ut there's a kind protector nigh,

Philomel, with melody, Sing in our sweet lullaby, Lulla, lulla, lullaby; lulla, lulla, lullaby: Never harm, nor spell, nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh; So good night with lullaby.

The Queen goads the high-minded Bourbon nigh unto madness, and at length breaks out into open insult.

the wicked fox! was all the cry; Out from his house ran every neighbour nigh: The vicar first, and after him the crew, With forks and staves the felon to pursue.

A green-wood grave-yard hid from ken, Where sweet-fern flings an odor nigh Yet held in fear for the gleaming ghost!

TRIUMPH The months go bybleak March and May-day heat Harvest is overwinter well-nigh done And still I say, "To-morrow we shall meet.

The large eastern promontory, well-nigh as long as the northern portion, is nearly cut in half by two deep bays, which, starting from opposite points on the south-eastern and north-western coasts, almost merge their waters in the center of the peninsula; the Bay of Ragay, and the Bay of Sogod.

He had seen Lady Sue standing beside a young man whose personalityto say the leastwas well-nigh as romantic as that of the exiled scion of the house of Orléans.