Nighest

They may be close-fisted, hard-headed, and sharp-tongued with each other when well and prosperous; but let poverty, wreck, illness, or death overtake one of their number, and the "nighest" of them at a bargain will open heart and purse with an astonishing generosity. ❋ Fannie E. Newberry (N/A)

But it allus come out the nighest side-channel, an 'not bubblin' up an 'up.' ❋ Unknown (2010)

So they ran thither and would lay hands on them, but they stood on their defence well and manly, and long he remembered it who was the nighest to them; but in the end they were borne down by many men and taken, and bonds were set upon them, and they were cast into fetters wherein they sit night long. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Howsoever, he took her hand, and led her to a little mound on the other side of the ring, and bade her sit down there, and so did she, and from under the nighest of the stones he drew forth a pair of saddle-bags, and took victual and wine thence, and they ate and drank together like old companions. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Then she bathed her in the nighest pool of the brook, and went back into the house and made her breakfast on the bread and milk, and it was then about mid-morning. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But at last she clad herself in haste, and went stealthily from the chamber, as if she feared to meet anyone; and she stole up to the tower-top that was nighest, and looked through the door on to the leads, and saw no one there; so she went out, and stood by the battlement, and gazed long over the water, but saw neither boat nor burning mountain coming towards her. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And he led her into the cot, and set her down to eat and to drink, and through the open door she could see the children swarming, and they that were nighest thrusting each other this way and that to catch a sight of her. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Mr. Blount (as he was then) was nighest me, and he whispered, “Women and wine.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Wild as that, the nighest woodland of a deserted home in ❋ Unknown (2003)

Disdainfully doth the buffalo glance thereat, nigh to the sand with its soul, nigher still to the thicket, nighest, however, to the swamp. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The captain came forward and offered to escort her, saying, "The nighest house, Miss, is Tom Jones ', just on the risin' yonder," nodding his head to a slight elevation from the river. ❋ Unknown (1984)

This I heard, when this Lord was but in the ascent of his greatnes, and long before his fall: and afterwards conferring with some of his nighest Relations, I found the tradition was not disown'd. ❋ Various (N/A)

But he that being nighest to me, hearing me, opened his eyes, and perceiving my intent and upon what account I was coming, he endeavoured to rise to make resistance against me, but I prevented him by a blow upon his forehead which mortally wounded him. ' ❋ Rosalind Northcote (N/A)

De workshop wuz de nighest thing to a jail or a court dat anybody on our plantation knowed anything 'bout. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

Thet strings a feller with a claim up tu the nighest bough, ❋ Various (N/A)

Lord puts nighest to us, fur fear it's too big a thing fur us to manage. ❋ Various (N/A)

Thomas Ellman, of Shoreham, John's cousin, he also approved as a breeder of sheep, but it is John that stood nighest the Earl of ❋ E.V. Lucas (N/A)

Where the aim from the thicket was surest and nighest, -- ❋ Emma Look Scott (N/A)

Gossip was rife, and in the taverns 'twas bruited that my uncle's conjecture had come nighest to the bull's-eye. ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)