Adverb : The time draws nigh. ,nigh onto twenty years.    From Dictionary.com. 

Adjective : Evening is nigh. ,to take the nighest route. ,to be astride the nigh horse.    From Dictionary.com. 

Poor mortals, who crowd round it, nigh and nigher!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freedom, Truth and Beauty] Reference

For his love, but can aught than embrace be nigher?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

And the children draw nigher 'round hearth and fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [War Poetry of the South] Reference

Then he stayed his speech, and drew a little nigher to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Omar Khadr Ad Infinitum « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference

He made a step nigher, and discovered the scarlet letter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Letter] Reference

Granny Betty is nigher fourscore year than threescore and ten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

So he went up a little nigher, en he step thin ez a batter-cake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference

And nigher they drew and nigher, and their fear was fading away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference

But what comes nigher to the explaining the manner of introducing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)] Reference

She says, "My roving countrygirl, will you draw a little nigher.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dick the Joiner] Reference

Nears my parting fro, my love, nigher draws the severance-day, viii.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

The feast it was nigh, and the mass it was nigher, When before the fair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Talisman] Reference

And the white blades flickering nigher, and the quavering points of war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference

But now let us hold our peace of him till we be come nigher to his haunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

Says Rose, to Dennis drawing nigher, "I think the wind is getting higher;".    From Wordnik.com.  [Abroad] Reference

Merchauntes passe their outmost floude toward them, but thei maie come no nigher.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie] Reference

Yea, certes, said he, yet I doubt if thou wilt like it the better, the nigher thou art.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

The night remained clear and calm, and happiness itself came nigher and nigher unto him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference

"An inch nigher her brain, and it would have killed her!" exclaimed the mother in tragic tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference

Sigmund said that he had come no nigher to the aid of a man though the youngling were with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Volsungs] Reference

This change had brought them nigher to each other, however, while it altered their relative positions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference

Birdalone drew nigher, and spake loudly and said: Tell me at least, is it peace between us or unpeace?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

I did hear tell of him over to Pebbleridge; but not likely, so nigh to his own mother, and never come no nigher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Springhaven] Reference

Nay, lady, said Sir Aymeris, nor tomorrow, nor any day uncompelled; neither shall we go nigher unto it than now we be.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

I drew nigher without being perceived, and the light still holding, saw that 'twas a young stirk or heifer the man was disembowelling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border Ghost Stories] Reference

The knife rose in the air, and the black, in a cool, sneering tone, replied: 'Say your prayers 'fore you come ony nigher, for, so help me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference

Disdainfully doth the buffalo glance thereat, nigh to the sand with its soul, nigher still to the thicket, nighest, however, to the swamp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference

I shan't forget how he ketched 'old of my leg that day and knocked me over; so you'd better take care, and not go nigher than you can 'elp.    From Wordnik.com.  [J. Cole] Reference

Pebbleridge; but not likely, so nigh to his own mother, and never come no nigher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference

Ishmael drew nigher, and long contemplated his work in awe, though not in compunction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie] Reference

Messire Gawain and Lancelot, draw you back, and come not nigher the archers, for otherwise ye be but dead men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The High History of the Holy Graal] Reference

Once more Birdalone drew nigher, and spake loudly and said: Tell me at least, is it peace between us or unpeace?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

Nay, lady, said Sir Aymeris, nor to-morrow, nor any day uncompelled; neither shall we go nigher unto it than now we be.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

"But is this not fatal?" cried the amazed Middleton; "are you not bringing the enemy nigher to us instead of avoiding it?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie] Reference

Then he stayed his speech, and drew a little nigher to Birdalone, and then grinned, and said: Forsooth we can spare him, we twain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference

Middleton was glad to be silent; but the old man, who had listened to their words, drew a little nigher, and continued the discourse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie] Reference

When they made their beasts of burden kneel as day drew nigh and nigher, Then they mounted and the camels bore away my heart's desire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV] Reference