nigh side
Example Sentences
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First we got ahead; then they scraped by us, crumpling our fender on the nigh side.
From Keeping up with Lizzie by Irving Bacheller
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 W. Bertram Foster
A big boulder was perched upon the nigh side of the road.
From Rimrock Trail by Joseph Allan Dunn
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 Marietta Holley
He called back, as he passed round the rear of his load to the nigh side of his team.
From The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) by Nehemiah Adams
