"Nighest" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from Italy the world may yet await, Most glorious souls, to bear our name adown the ways of fate. Yea, I will set it forth in words, and thou thy tale shalt hear: Lo ye, the youth that yonder leans upon the headless spear, 760 Fate gives him nighest place today; he first of all shall rise, Blent blood of Troy and Italy, unto the earthly skies: Silvius is he, an Alban name, thy son, thy latest born; He whom thy wife Lavinia now, when thin thy life is worn, Beareth in woods to be a king and get a kingly race, Whence comes the lordship ...
— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil
... the evil nurse, The nighest that she durst: "Never saw I yet fair maiden Of drink so ...
— Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough • William Morris
... imperiously; "a pretty young girl like you can't live alone here in this lonesome place. Mother says it wouldn't be decent or safe. You'll want a home, and it had best be mine. Come, now. You'll never have a better offer if you've lost all your money. But your land lies nighest to my farm, and it's worth more to me than anybody else. It wouldn't be a bad bargain for me, Phebe; and I've waited five years for you besides. If you'll only say yes, I'll go down and face mother, and have it out with ...
— Cobwebs and Cables • Hesba Stretton |
