anigh
Americanpreposition
adverb
Etymology
Origin of anigh
Example Sentences
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Old Barbara hobbled among the rest,— Wrinkled and bowed was she,— And she gave a cry, as she fared anigh, "At last he is come to me!"
From Second Book of Verse by Eugene Field
One eve again a passer-by, He knew not what the radiance meant, And dared not come anigh.
From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various
So far dissension ruled the pair, Each turned on each a frowning air, When flickering from the bank anigh, A flight of martens met their eye.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson
We all know he was anigh here when your father died.
From With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga by W. Bertram Foster
Never but three, or may be fower, have I seen in my time to come anigh to her—man nor woman.
From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan
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