Wellnigh

Truly happy can those men be called, who are inclined by nature to those arts that can bring to them not only honour and very great profit, but also, what is more, fame and a name wellnigh eternal, and happier still are they who have from their cradles, besides such inclination, courtesy and honest ways, which render them very dear to all men. ❋ Giorgio Vasari (1542)

There were four of these steps, and she went up them, a step at a time, slowly, unwaveringly, and with so dogged certitude that it never entered my mind that her strength could fail her and let that hundred-weight sack fall from the lean and withered frame that wellnigh doubled under it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Concoct up 1 telephone on a in consumer forum urge wellnigh each rig relaxed 1000 or so views, with support 100 of those people visiting your site. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Some realms grant-in-aid player-versus-player disagreement wellnigh anywhere gold gold in the victim world. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“I had wellnigh met you at the palace,” said Hereward; while his heart throbbed almost as high as if he had actually had such a dangerous encounter. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If Heaven has allotted them a degree of bravery, which to other nations seems wellnigh preternatural, the Divine will has given to the ❋ Unknown (2008)

Both the unfortunate chiefs remained dead on the field, and Hereward and his brother had wellnigh shared their fate; but some Saxon inhabitants of the neighbourhood, who adventured on the field of battle, which the victors had left bare of every thing save the booty of the kites and the ravens, found the bodies of the youths still retaining life. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But, to my father, these formalities compose an august and serious solemnity, to which he has long looked forward, and my absenting myself at this moment would wellnigh drive him distracted. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Believe me, I was wellnigh thinking that we had done ill to take the cross — God forgive such an impious doubt! ❋ Unknown (2008)

Samuel to bring my horses at midnight, when I thought my frolic would be wellnigh over, to the place to which the bearer should direct him, and I sent little Benjie with an apology to the worthy Quakers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I had obtained a glimpse of the countenance of my new companion, as by the aid of a dark lantern the drivers opened the carriage door, and I was wellnigh persuaded that I recognized in him the domestic of the leader of this party, whom I had seen at his house in Brokenburn on a former occasion. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I made desperate efforts to find them, but without avail in that wellnigh impentratable forest. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It was considered as a state secret of the greatest importance; and for wellnigh four centuries it was unknown to the Mahomedans. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Champion of Scotland was saved in the desperate attempt, but I who fell among a heap of stones and rubbish, I the disobedient daughter, wellnigh the apostate vestal, waked only from a long bed of sickness, to find myself the disfigured wretch, which you now see me. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“I will do my best,” said Douban; “but your Majesty must consider, that we work upon a frail and exhausted subject, whose health seems already wellnigh gone, and may perhaps vanish in an instant — like this pale and trembling light, whose precarious condition the life-breath of this unfortunate patient seems closely to resemble.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

“Prisoner!” exclaimed Dalgetty, exerting himself with such force as wellnigh to shake off two Highlanders, who for some minutes past had waited the signal to seize him, and kept for that purpose close at his back. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Therewith he went up to the Black One and stooped adown over his head, and spake some words over him, but so softly that I heard not their import; and straightway the sleeper rose up so suddenly that he wellnigh smote against the Red Knight. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They have kept it up wellnigh a quarter of a century; and it is no disparagement to their zeal to say the tax upon them is becoming more of a burden than a pleasure. ❋ T. Thomas Fortune (2007)