Her eyes like angels watch them still; Her brows like bended bows do stand, Threatening with piercing frowns to kill All that approach with eye or hand These sacred cherries to come nigh, Till cherry-ripe themselves do cry.
Thou, for thy part, hast been a rebel all thy days: I abhor to come nigh thee, or to touch thy garments.
No man of the sons of Aaron that hath a blemish was to come nigh.
Wherefore they stood at a considerable distance regarding Sir Launcelot and not daring to come nigh to him; and they stood so for a long time.
These two knights rode down toward the ford and when they had come nighto it he who was the bigger of the two drave down to the edge of the water and called across to Sir Gareth, "Who are you who dareth to blow so loudly upon our bugle horn?
So Sir Launcelot stood there in the midst of the way at the end of the bridge, and he waved his sword this way and that way before him so that not one of those, his enemies, dared to come nigh to him.
They call on men to change to a better mind, and declare that the Kingdom of God is come nigh.
The seventy are bid to say to those who rejected them, "Howbeit know this that the Kingdom of God is come nigh.
Perceval hath rowed until that he is come nigh a castle that was burning fiercely with a great flame, and seeth a hermitage upon the sea hard by.
He looketh and seeth coming from the forest two priests all afoot; and the first shouteth to him: "Sir Knight, withdraw yourself away from the cross, for no right have you to come nigh it.
He hath ridden so far that he is come nigh Cardoil, and findeth the land wasted and desolate, and the towns burnt, whereof is he sore grieved.
The squire broke her heart, and none of hers were let to come nigh her.
Well she might wander there, where she was let to pine and pine, and no one of all her own people let to come nigh her.
They said she grew pale and pale, but they wouldna let me come nigh.
And here I aided the Maid to climb, and we had the same ledge that night to be our refuge; and did sleep very happy and unharmed, and alway with our spirits set to warn us, if that harm did make to come nigh to us.
And I to assure her; and she to come nigh to me, and thiswise we to enter presently into the steam.
And I made to come nigh to that part; for there would be warmth from the chill of the Night Land, and mayhaps a place dry and convenient to my slumber.
No man of the sons of Aaron that had a blemish was to come nigh.
Heerd awful loud talkin' as I come nigh, and seen they was a big crowd 'round the door.
Come nigh to us our father and our king, and ye chaste ministers of him we serve: Come nigh, and feel that we are mortal like yourselves, and stop the rite.
Come nigh me, my friends," said he; "and read me what is to be done with this king of mighty conjurors now?
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