Floyd had well-nigh stripped the northern arsenals. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
As it has been said, the painting is well-nigh finished. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Still on with courage high, tho 'strength was well-nigh spent. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
Springfield the death of Ann Rutledge well-nigh unseated his reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Before we reached our destination, our provisions well-nigh gave out. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
Abbey, or who had wronged and defrauded it, he is well-nigh as fierce as. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
A German following is a well-nigh certain inference from an English success. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Did you ever see a vessel whose fuel is well-nigh exhausted drag herself into port?. From Wordnik.com. [How to Cook Husbands] Reference
Father Mathew's heart was well-nigh broken with seeing the misery of his countrymen. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Although the recital of the story was well-nigh insupportable, I wished to hear it again. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The winter following Joel's death was unusually severe and to Persis seemed well-nigh endless. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
He came, as I have said, and was well-nigh upon you, when the form of Endora stood in the path. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Rhapsodies are well-nigh impossible unless the mood of the listener answers in some small degree. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
The next day, and from time to time, she came to Chios, until the painting was well-nigh finished. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Gradually his hardships, his exposure and the loneliness preyed on him until he was well-nigh insane. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
How could she tell the eager listeners that long neglect had made poor Sadie's case well-nigh hopeless?. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
He had been ailing so long in the old days, that he had got well-nigh accustomed to being a semi-invalid. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
At times the strength of this heavenly light so dazzled me that my mind and body were well-nigh overwhelmed. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
He concluded that it was "an evening whose mixture of sanctimony and incompetence proves well-nigh unendurable". From Wordnik.com. [Caledonia gives reviewers a 'hard left'] Reference
But it was Miss Asenath's way to make anything but good behaviour in her immediate vicinity well-nigh impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
Here he found two of the boys well-nigh recovered, but the third one was still unconscious, and Horace seemed even worse. From Wordnik.com. [That Scholarship Boy] Reference
I went with the King on that journey to Bayonne, when we were two years and more making the tour of well-nigh all this kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
That this Lord Mayor should utter the still more crimson falsehoods and fabrication of fairy folk, was well-nigh inconceivable. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference
Crusoe existence of the yeoman farmer, as depicted by Mr. Laing, has suffered so much invasion that it has well-nigh disappeared. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
The beauty of the spot abides, but the old-world faith in the waters has well-nigh departed -- gone with many another quaint credulity. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
The whole assembly well-nigh made these obliging remarks, though uttered so as only to be heard by the poet as a murmur of uncertain import. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It was more and worse than money or silver that he had dared to come for: it was to impose his love upon a woman whose heart he had well-nigh broken. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Nothing else was talked of, business was well-nigh suspended, and the newspapers neglected everything else to tell about the unparalleled natural phenomenon. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
The successful men become egotistic, and it is a common, well-nigh universal, practise for all sorts and conditions of men to speak harshly of the authorities. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Conscience tugging at his evil heart, had well-nigh dragged forth the truth, but the cold, low voice of the Mayor, drove it back again, even from his pallid lips. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
DANIEL SCHORR: Superpower America, which once regarded itself as well-nigh invulnerable, now enters a new stage of vulnerability with a gigantic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [Oil Spill Earns Place In History Books] Reference
It also enabled us to obtain forage for our well-nigh famished animals, and to prepare for fighting the enemy, who, I felt sure, would endeavor to interpose between my column and. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
His men were marched almost all night, almost all day the next day, and were well-nigh utterly exhausted when they reached a position in rear of the right flank of the left wing. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Gatling Gun Detachment] Reference
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