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. 

Wild as that, the nighest woodland of a deserted home in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eothen] Reference

Where the aim from the thicket was surest and nighest.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the Flag Became Old Glory] Reference

Thet strings a feller with a claim up tu the nighest bough.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference

Lord puts nighest to us, fur fear it's too big a thing fur us to manage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories] Reference

Mr. Blount (as he was then) was nighest me, and he whispered, “Women and wine.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two on a Tower] Reference

Marse Joe and his fambly lived in sot in a cedar grove and Woodville was de town nighest de place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3] Reference

De workshop wuz de nighest thing to a jail or a court dat anybody on our plantation knowed anything 'bout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1] Reference

Gossip was rife, and in the taverns 'twas bruited that my uncle's conjecture had come nighest to the bull's-eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border Ghost Stories] Reference

"That's about the nighest scratch I remember ever havin had," was his remark, as the Antelope went away from the land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost in the Fog] Reference

Swear allegiance to what is nighest your thoughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [don't eat alone] Reference

"I doan, Marse Cap'n, but he mought be at dis nighest fiah.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Trembled] Reference

Mr. Blount (as he was then) was nighest me, and he whispered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two on a Tower] Reference

For tragic, in the very nighest sense, the story is throughout.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermits] Reference

So I cuts to the nighest station, and sees a pal o 'mine outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life] Reference

The two gentlemen nighest upon violently resenting his brutality to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference

Companions were mingled with the wild-men, was there amidst the nighest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Well at the World's End: a tale] Reference

"Tell Beaver to stop a bit," cried Joses; "you're nighest to him, my lad.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Canyon A Tale of the Western Plains] Reference

The two gentlemen nighest upon violently resenting his brutality to Duchess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

But it allus come out the nighest side-channel, an 'not bubblin' up an 'up.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Son of the Wolf] Reference

Then turns Thiodolf round to those nighest to him and says, but still softly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of the Wolfings] Reference

That one nighest in is the little man-o'-war, I suppose, and yon's the big one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witness to the Deed] Reference

If you stand at work in a shop I stand as nigh as the nighest in the same shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaves of Grass] Reference

If you stand at work in a shop, I stand as nigh as the nighest in the same shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems By Walt Whitman] Reference

Sound out, voices of young men! loudly and musically call me by my nighest name!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems By Walt Whitman] Reference

I'm most anxious about the farm lads, for they're nighest to where the enemy are.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War] Reference

All those who are nighest to him draw aback, and far are the English from fleeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade)] Reference

But your land lies nighest to my farm, and it's worth more to me than anybody else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cobwebs and Cables] Reference

"It is all arranged, then," cried my wife with great glee, bursting from the nighest room.    From Wordnik.com.  [I and My Chimney] Reference

But there ain't no nigh neighbors, and those that are nighest ain't on speakin 'terms with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights] Reference

I am fit to be a queen too, and the man who raises me nighest to a queen's estate gets my hand!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Dog] Reference

I would winter this year in Fareys, for they are the nighest place to Iceland that I may reach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Brighteyes] Reference

Deputy's the nighest name to indict me by: but yer wouldn't catch me pleading to that, neither. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference

She taketh Perceval by the hand and leadeth him to the windows of the hall that were nighest the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The High History of the Holy Graal] Reference

He draweth toward his land the nighest he may, and hath won back the kingdom of Oriande all at his will.    From Wordnik.com.  [The High History of the Holy Graal] Reference

Island is a little mite of a sand heap off in the bay, two mile from shore and ten from the nighest town.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Depot Master] Reference