"Nicker" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on the eve of All-Souls, Through these arches dishallowed the organ rolls, Fingers long fleshless the bell-ropes work, The chimes peal muffled with sea-mists mirk, The skeleton windows are traced anew On the baleful nicker of corpse-lights blue, 40 And the ghosts must come, so the legend saith, To a ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... these milk-white steids, "That prance and nicker[119] at a speir; "And as mickle gude Inglish gilt[120], "As four of their ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott |
