nigh side

Example Sentences

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There ain't no opening on the nigh side of it, but that don't hinder Emily none.

From From Place to Place by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

But on my nigh side, only a little ways acrost from us sot the ponderous man I remembered on my journey thither who wanted to be a fly.

From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Holley, Marietta

I felt a movement on my nigh side and see that Josiah wuz leanin’ forward in deep interest, 130 and thinkses I, he is sorry for her folly, he has a noble heart.

From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Holley, Marietta

And actually I didn’t know the off from the nigh side of a hawss!”

From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by Brehm, George

The calf was playing on the far side of its mother, and so we could easily come up upon the nigh side without being observed.

From Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers by Foster, W. Bertram