nigh side

Example Sentences

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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

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.

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

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