nigh side

Example Sentences

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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 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 Adams, Nehemiah

There ain't no opening on the nigh side of it, but that don't hinder Emily none.

From From Place to Place by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

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

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