nigh side

Example Sentences

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"Broke my new aut'mobile," carelessly replied my host, flicking a fly off the nigh side of his horse.

From Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Eddy, Arthur Jerome

To reach the ground on the nigh side of the coach Ann Hicks would have to climb over a couple of boys.

From Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm What Became of the Raby Orphans by Emerson, Alice B.

Not so hard on the nigh side there.

From The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings : or, Making the Start in the Sawdust Life by Darlington, Edgar B. P.

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

He found he could step from here to a narrow path upon the nigh side where at this point the two walls came almost together.

From The Web of the Golden Spider by Fisher, Harrison