"I'm nigh dead for a drink," he whined.

He's nigh out of his wits!" Rajah pointed to the open door, but we could not see into the passage beyond the triangle of light thrown out from the gimbal-lamps in the saloon.

There is no good for little Pearl!" "Woman, I could well-nigh pity thee!" said Roger Chillingworth.

express'd The vice implanted in her youthful breast: Forth from the tent her elder brother came, Who seem'd offended, yet forbore to blame The young designer, but could only trace The looks of pity in the Trav'ller's face: Within, the Father, who from fences nigh Had brought the fuel for the fire's supply, Watch'd now the feeble blaze, and stood dejected by.

"While I'm runnin' this here ranch you're goin' to have manners, see?" "If manners was like your whiskers," said the unabashed Shorty, "it'd take me nigh onto thirty years to get 'em.

When we are old: That only serves to make us grieve With oft and tedious taking-leave, 45 Like some poor nigh-related guest, That may not rudely be dismist; Yet hath outstayed his welcome while, And tells the jest without the smile.

"I don' guess nothin' at all,I nigh abeout know!"

After she had taken the pork, she looked round a minute and said, "Wal, arter all, I nigh upon forgot my arrant.

And mother stirred round and made hot cream-biscuits for tea, and got the best china, and we sat up till nigh midnight, talking, and I had to tell everything John did and said and thought and looked, over and over again.

ef ye ha'n't been nigh abeout a hull year a-knittin' one pair uv socks!"

On the northern side, the steep hill, massive masonry, and deep fosse would seem to have offered well-nigh insuperable difficulties to an attacking force such as then could be brought against the camp; yet not only here, but in all the stations whose remains yet survive, there is unmistakable evidence that more than once has the garrison been driven out by a victorious foe, to re-enter and occupy it again at a later period.

Till horse and boy were well-nigh mad with glee, So often, summer and winter, home from school, And not found that out?

They put on various disguises as they went, Bertram appearing now in the guise of a holy Palmer, now as a wandering minstrel As he was sitting, despondent and well-nigh despairing, beneath a hawthorn tree, an aged monk came by, and on seeing the supposed minstrel's face of sorrow, said to him, "All minstrels yet that e'er I saw Are full of game and glee, But thou art sad and woe-begone; I marvel whence it be.

On the third night, worn with watching, he slept, and only awakened as dawn drew nigh.

Then the value of the slave will no longer protect him, and then the end will be nigh.

Ye tone a note of joy to me; Through the rough wind my soul sails free, nigh over waves that Autumn heaves.

"My dog is good to catch a hen, A duck and goose is vood vor men; And where good company I spy, Oh, thether gwoes my dog and I. "Droo aal the world, owld Gaarge would bwoast, Commend me to merry owld England mwoast; While vools gwoes scramblin' vur and nigh, We bides at whoam, my dog and I.

With an equal degree of lameness resulting in each case, the former will be well-nigh useless, but the latter still capable of performing much of his usual labour.

" Miss Jordan looked aghast at this startling intelligence; if Mrs. Roth and Mrs. Kinney withdrew their patronage and influence, her little school (the sole support of her mother and herself) would be well-nigh broken up.

The first time their class assembled the white children well-nigh dislocated their necks, in their endeavours to catch glimpses of the coloured scholars, who were seated on a backless bench, in an obscure corner of the room.

It is well nigh impossible to open a southern paper without finding evidence of this.

As nigh they drew, The town was emptied to its very babes, And spread as thick as daisies o'er the fields.

The national treasury is well-nigh exhausted in meeting their demands.

Alone as he is, in well-nigh all his opinions, behold how prettily he talks of "COMMON SENSE, the only sure foundation of any theory!" and says, "On this imperishable foundationthis rock of eternal enduranceI rear my superstructure, the edifice of scientific truth, the temple of Grammatical consistency!"Peirce's Preface, p. 7. OBS.

"Rather let such poor souls as you and I Say that the holidays are drawing nigh.