English citations of nigh

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  • (English adverb)
    • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 1, ch. 5, Aristocracy of Talent
      All England stands wringing its hands, asking itself, nigh desperate, What farther?
  • (English verb)
    • 1922, A. E. Housman, Last Poems XXXIX, lines 1-3, 31-34
      When summer's end is nighing
      And skies at evening cloud,
      I muse on change and fortune
      (...)
      So here's an end of roaming
      On eves when autumn nighs:
      The ear too fondly listens
      For summer's parting sighs,