Citations:nigh


 * (English adverb)
 * 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 1, ch. 5, Aristocracy of Talent
 * All England stands wringing its hands, asking itself, nigh desperate, What farther?
 * (English verb)
 * 1922, A. E. Housman, Last Poems XXXIX, lines 1-3, 31-34
 *  When summer's end is nighing 
 *  And skies at evening cloud,
 * I muse on change and fortune
 * So here's an end of roaming
 * On eves when autumn nighs:
 * The ear too fondly listens
 * For summer's parting sighs,
 * For summer's parting sighs,