De big fine house what Marse Joe and his fambly lived in sot in a cedar grove and Woodville was de town nighest de place.
Folks would form lines from de nearest cisterns and wells and pass dem buckets of water on from one to another 'til dey got to de man nighest de fire.
Her'n is the nighest house, an' Doctor Sowers says he must be taken ter the ve'y nighest place.
King Harald's son Magnus steered the ship which lay lowest in the river-mouth and nighestout to the lake.
All those who are nighest to him draw aback, and far are the English from fleeing.
Who is now then so unreasonable, so despiteful, or envious, as to abhor him that doth all his diligence to hit the prick, and to shoot nighest it, though he miss and come not nighest the mark?
I crossed the garden, and went into the lime-walk; the nighest way to the servants' hall took me through the shrubbery and past the dry well.
Now I say that Grettir has nought to do with the case of the slaying, but let him take up the blood-suit, who is nighest of kin by law.
Thorstein sent forthwith a messenger to Wick to Flosi, and so to thenighest farm-steads.
But when Grettir heard that all men fared to the Thing, he made a plot with his friends; for he was in goodwill with those who dwelt nighest to him, and for them he spared nought that he could get.
I war three hundred miles from the nighest fort, in the very heart of the Comanche country, an' in the dead of winter, with the snow two foot deep on a level.
Next morning, while the day was yet young, they rode together, all of them, the nighest way to the Tofts, for they knew the wood right well.
Then turns Thiodolf round to those nighest to him and says, but still softly: "Hear ye a word, O people, of the wisdom of the foe!
Lucifer, though described as nighest to God, belonged only to the third rank of the hierarchies; just as Orange, though first among the Dutch noblemen, and next to Philip II.
Belial: They are the nighest God, their refuge sure And Father: they upon His breast have lain: Now lies a lesser one more close than they.
His crescent light, the first and nighest God, 80 Shall ne'er grow dim.
She taketh Perceval by the hand and leadeth him to the windows of the hall that were nighest the sea.
When it was fallen into decay, many folk of the lands and islands that were nighest thereunto marvel them what may be in this manor.
He knelt down the nighest he might to the coffin, as it had been to worship the image, and set his race and his mouth to the stone of the coffin, and sorroweth for her right sweetly.
He draweth toward his land the nighest he may, and hath won back the kingdom of Oriande all at his will.
So those two knights proceeded along that golden strand, all in the shining sunlight, until, by and by, they came to a certain part of the lake that was nighest to the castle.
Then, after a while, she sent for Sir Bors de Ganis, who was the nighest of kin to Sir Launcelot of all those then at court.
This feller nighest us is crippled and left behind.
Then his heart failed him, when he knew that he no longer desired her as she did him, and he said within himself: 'Would that she had been of our nighest kindred!
And now it were well if these thy folk were to dight our dinner for us in some green field the nighest that may be, and thither shall all the Host be bidden by sound of horn.
That's about the nighest scratch I remember ever havin had," was his remark, as the Antelope went away from the land.
What gods can exceed these that clasp me by the hand, and with voices I love call me promptly and loudly by my nighest name as approach?
This I heard, when this Lord was but in the ascent of his greatnes, and long before his fall: and afterwards conferring with some of his nighest Relations, I found the tradition was not disown'd.
But I will lead you the nighest way to where the venison is easiest to be gotten.
And of al the other lines that is euer the greatest, that is nighest to the line, which passeth by the centre.
Then draw lines betwene euery two prickes that benighest togither, and ther wil appear rightly drawen the figure, of fiftene sides, and angles equall.
Five mile from Eastboro Center, sixteen from Denboro, and two from the nighest life savin' station.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nighest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
