nigh side

Example Sentences

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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

"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

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.

First we got ahead; then they scraped by us, crumpling our fender on the nigh side.

From Keeping up with Lizzie by Bacheller, Irving

On the nigh side was a coachman, with his bandy legs cased in white pants and yeller topped boots; and on the other—well, say! you talk about your polka dot symphonies!

From Side-stepping with Shorty by Ford, Sewell