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

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

From Keeping up with Lizzie by Bacheller, Irving

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

A big boulder was perched upon the nigh side of the road.

From Rimrock Trail by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)

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 Foster, W. Bertram