2332 examples of nighest in sentences

"Here is thy greatest danger, friend," said he, "for here we are nighest to that vile thief Robin Hood, and the place where he dwells.

Of all sounds of all bells(bells, the music nighest bordering upon heaven)most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

At this the alarm was instantly given and the mischief done, for presently there was a tremendous bustle through that part of the fleet lying nighest the vice-admirala deal of shouting of orders, a beating of drums, and the running hither and thither of the crews.

Had it not been for the armed galley the pirates might have got the galleon away with no great harm done in spite of all this cannonading, for the man-of-war which rode at anchor nighest to them at the mouth of the harbor was still so far away that they might have passed it by hugging pretty close to the shore, and that without any great harm being done to them in the darkness.

"For as victory was nighest, While I sang and played, With my lyre at lowest, highest, Right alike,one string that made 'Love' sound soft was snapt in twain Never to be heard again, "Had not a kind cricket fluttered, Perched upon the place Vacant left, and duly uttered 'Love, Love, Love,' whene'er the bass Asked the treble to atone For its somewhat sombre drone.

all otherwise they doo esteeme 85 Of th'heavenly gift of wisdomes influence, And to be learned it a base thing deeme: Base minded they that want intelligence; For God himselfe for wisedome most is praised, And men to God thereby are nighest raised.

"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.

" "The nighest, Thirkle.

The nighest has the stores, and the other the tackle.

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

"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.

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

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

Wilder held his breath, for the moment the stranger drew nighest, in the very excess of suspense; but, as he saw no signal of recognition, no human form, nor any intention to arrest, if possible, the furious career of the other, a smile of exultation gleamed across his countenance, and his lips moved rapidly, as though he found pleasure in being abandoned to his distress.

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

"Proximus finem, nighest the end."Ib., ii, 150.

There was a rush among some of the crowd who were nighest the scene to follow the prisoner into the room; and, sooth to say, the great Mountmeadow was much too enamoured of his own self-importance to be by any means a patron of close courts and private hearings; but then, though he loved his power to be witnessed, he was equally desirous that his person should be reverenced.

I'd ha' gone out by the last train to the nighest station, and it being summer

Pete had a small compass, a gimcrack affair hangin' to his watch-chain, an' we pulled by it west-sou'-west towards the nighest land, which we made out must be some one or another o' the Leeward Islands; but 'twas more to keep ourselves busy than for aught else: the boat was so low in the water that even with the Trade to help us, we made but a mile an hour, an' had to be balin' all day and all night.

Near and more near; till now the flags Run like a catching flame; And one flares highest, to peril nighest He means to make a name: Salvos!

CHAPTER V. Josiah wuz for goin' into the show by the entrance nighest to Miss Huff's, but I said, "No, that may do for other times, but when I first enter this Fair ground as a Observer" (for in our visit to the Inside Inn we wuz only weary wayfarers, too tired to observe, and the Sabbath we felt wuz no time to jot down impressions).

That is a monstrous big building with a great round dome on top, two broad flights of steps lead up into it, we clumb the nighest one and went inside.

Alwus come down by the nighest way.

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