Is i an aon bhean do ni an gul ag dol d’a fhios gu Cluain Fraoich, Ainnir an fhuilt chaise aille, nighean Mhaoibh ri ’m bitheadh laoich.
A nighean Fhorghuil nan each, A Eimhear oige na brigh binn, Is ann an éiric Chon nan cleas, thugas leam an nios na cinn.
Tabhraibh mo bhrat domh a mhnathan, is mi nigheanan Deirg ghraine, Noch cha dearnas de lochd, ach fios ri Fionn faobhar nochta.
No one will be coming ashore, and no freight; and there is no freight to go from here, and no one who wants the ferry unless it be yourself, Lora nighean Tormaid!
Not one of these Habost fishermen could sing a brisk song, but the nearest approach to it was a ballad in praise of a dark-haired girl, which they, owning the Nighean dubh, were bound to know.
For on the morrow she learned that the Nighean Donn had been run down in the mist, a mile south of Ithona, by an unknown steamer.
The sail of the Nighean Donn flapped, a dusky wing in the darkness.
It was on the third night after the sinking of the Nighean Donn that Mary walked alone, beyond the shingle beaches, and where the ledges of trap run darkly into deep water.
Mary knew what boat it was--the Nighean Donn, out of Fionnaphort in Ithona, the westernmost of the Iarraidh Isles.
There was no one visible on board the Nighean Donn, but a boy's voice sang a monotonous Gaelic cadence, indescribably sweet as it came, remote and wild as an air out of a dim forgotten world, across the still waters.
She knew who was there--that it was the little boat of the Nighean Donn, and that Angus Macleod was in it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nighean" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
