Word: nigh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to all the confident expectations and fond hopes of General Nigh Phonnoforque, this demonstration did not go to impress the Great Man with the loyalty, fastidiousness, and devotion of his lieutenant, but rather served only to make him feel that his own judgment was not worth two onions, and that a subordinate might all too easily and without any just cause, overstep his duties and rights...
...would not acknowledge her. Expert reporter of Negro dialect, Au thoress Peterkin can get the authentic ef fect even in an indirect transcription : "After his lawfully lady left him, he looked so down in the heart, she offered to do his washing and cooking. ... He stayed out late mighty nigh every night and came in looking all whipped down. . . . When she asked him where he went he made power ful good excuses, for he had a mighty glib tongue. He swore to God the first night that the holy spirit had fallen on him so heavy during the sermon...
...which are not his own. Borrowed or purchased notes are regarded as a perfectly legitimate aid, not to night-before cramming, but to methodical review. The only reason why more men do not use tutoring bureau outlines is that they are so inadequate and inaccurate as to be well-nigh useless...
Astronomy is a science that trains the imagination and stretches one's powers of conception to the breaking point. The exactitude of measurement achieved in some parts of the field is well nigh incredible...
...particular, Dr. Kuhn pointed to one volume, in the first exhibition case, which was a well-nigh perfect imitation not only of the manuscript writing and illumination but also of the binding. It would be impossible for the casual observer to distinguish it from the genuine article: the binding was of old, dried leather, the clasp of tarnished brass, and the pages of real-looking vellum...