Sentence examples for the nigh from inspiring English sources

The off steed wore his nails bright blue and red, the nigh steed wore his bright blue and green.

In bringing new sensuality and self-awareness to Rose, Ms. Peters breaks the Merman mold, but without distorting the nigh perfect shape of a show assembled by the magical team of Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim.

Russell Hall, who collected the nigh on £600,000 winning prize, first came across Collier Hill as a £5,500 recruit, one which got home in a Catterick bumper.

And she does so without cracking or distorting the nigh perfect shape of what may be the greatest of all American musicals, a show assembled by the magical team of Arthur Laurents (book), Jule Styne (music) and Stephen Sondheim (lyrics).

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.

Others have tried to make a similar stand over the years – Finland in 1982, for example, with the nigh legendary Eurovision clanger Nuku Pommiin (aka Don't Drop That Neutron Bomb on Me), which scored nul points, and Portugal with the 1974 effort And After the Farewell, which finished last but became famous for helping to incite the Carnation Revolution in its homeland.

The nigh-on perfect picturebook for very young children.

Both developments have put the war debate on far more favorable terms for Republicans than was the case before the nigh-catastrophic 2006 elections.

Mum Natasha, in her early 20s, admits that they've never eaten a home-cooked meal in their lives; a fact which the nigh-tearful Jamie Oliver is finding hard to digest.

Instead, it took hip-hop, reggae and jazz and gently caressed them into the deep house mould, achieving the nigh-on impossible task of making 10-minute saxophone solos sound like fun.

As his footnotes, which take up at least half of all but a few pages, make clear, Alter is profoundly steeped not just in the linguistic details of Hebrew but in the nigh-overwhelming amount of previous commentary, including the Midrash of rabbinical interpreters going back to the early centuries of the Christian era.