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- (English adverb)
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 1, ch. 5, Aristocracy of Talent
- All England stands wringing its hands, asking itself, nigh desperate, What farther?
- (English verb)
- 1922, A. E. Housman, Last Poems XXXIX, lines 1-3, 31-34
- When summer's end is nighing
- And skies at evening cloud,
- I muse on change and fortune
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- So here's an end of roaming
- On eves when autumn nighs:
- The ear too fondly listens
- For summer's parting sighs,