"Nighest" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... off, arter all; I needn't hardly mention That Guv'ment owed me quite a pile for my arrears o' pension,— I mean the poor, weak thing we hed: we run a new one now, Thet strings a feller with a claim up tu the nighest bough, An' prectises the rights o' man, purtects down-trodden debtors, Ner wun't hev creditors about a-scrougin' o' their betters: Jeff's gut the last idees ther' is, poscrip', fourteenth edition, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various
... with enthusiasm. "And we'll cement the friendship—the book fellers are always tellin' about cementin' friendships—with this supper of ours, eh? If we only had some of Isaiah's last batch of mincemeat we could sartinly do it with that; it was the nighest thing to cement ever I saw put on a table. I asked him if he filled his pies with a trowel and you ought to have heard him sputter. You remember Isaiah, don't you, Crawford? Tall, spindlin' critter, sails cook for Zoeth and me at the house down home. He ain't pretty, but his heart's in ...
— Mary-'Gusta • Joseph C. Lincoln |
