Sentence examples for come nigh from inspiring English sources
We have come nigh unto 2000 years to get away from those people, and it is a shock to realize that our neighbor's son has returned from Berkeley looking like Jesus - that Jesus, in a sense was in him all along, waiting to be let out... View Article John Updike contributed fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism to The New Yorker for a half century.
The compositions on "Worshippers Come Nigh," Brackeen's third album taken from a 1987 session in Dallas, follow a simple pattern--brief unison readings of the themes and then off on extended, free-wheeling improvisations.
One of the reasons may be related to the fact that single women are under less pressure to worry about their partner's opinion because traditionally and religiously the local Islamic society places constraints around dating and premarital sex "Nor come nigh to adultery: for it is a shameful (deed) and an evil, opening the road (to other evils"(Sorat Al Israa 17 32, The Holy Quran).
Stephen Albert's "Flower of the Mountain," an evocative expansion of a text by James Joyce Molly Bloomm's memory of Bloom's marriage proposal in "Ulysses"), was billed as a section of "Distant Hills Coming Nigh" but began life on its own.
But Hollands' plot takes increasingly baroque turns, springing Rhonda from jail, introducing us to a US general (Paterson Joseph) with a plan that just might save humanity, and sending Lowe on a trip round the world in the company of a comely nun as they try to find out whether the second coming is nigh.
It was expected that Rupert Murdoch would be the first proprietor to admit the twin stark truths that journalism is not free and that no good has come of the nigh universal pretence that it should be.
Now, with the 80th-anniversary season of the festival nigh, comes the celebratory documentary "Never Stand Still," which looks at Jacob's Pillow from its beginnings with the choreographer Ted Shawn.
Once Ms. Kidman in "The Blue Room" appeared on the cover of Newsweek, tickets to the show's limited run were nigh impossible to come by.
But the penultimate song is a softly undulant lullaby, for which Mr. Kushner has provided mildly melancholy lyrics that tell of the fears that come "when night is gathering nigh". The production is handsome without being flashy.
But the penultimate song is a softly undulant lullaby, for which Mr. Kushner has provided mildly melancholy lyrics that tell of the fears that come "when night is gathering nigh".
When it eventually did, the majority of two days had been used up and if England manage to do something similar, a draw will be a nigh-on certainty come Monday evening.
