We were friends, good friends, but the time was drawing nigh when I had to lay my cards on the table. |
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Forbidden were men to draw nigh the plant, yet weaker were their still young and innocent minds to words of deception. |
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The third, John, hasn't seen the other two for nigh on 20 years, having started a family and taken on the responsibilities that go with it. |
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Because of the haphazard way events are patchworked together, it's nigh onto impossible to follow the flow of the season. |
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They range from the poor state of the roads to sheer recklessness on the part of some drivers who have nigh on abandoned all road safety rules. |
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Yes, the logistics of accommodating and transporting the world's best athletes for nigh on a month will mean disruption on a massive scale. |
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We spent a half an hour in the dealership, which is nigh unto an eternity when you have a small child. |
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Instead, with the match already nigh on a 7,000 sell-out, everywhere they look the stars will be on the other side of the field. |
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Trust me, this will be something that will be nigh unto impossible to break. |
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It permeates every corner of Northern Irish society, often unseen but nigh impossible to evade. |
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Thus, my look and in depth coverage of Roman cuisine draws nigh to a close. |
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But with Election Day drawing nigh once more, guess who is promising what once again? |
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Many and varied are the causes of homelessness and to try to document them in such a short space would be nigh on impossible. |
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They leak, they give the wine a plastic flavour, they are nigh on impossible to remove with a cork screw when you're squiffy. |
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Vapor phase coatings differ from platings in that it is well nigh impossible to plate aluminum or aluminum alloys from an aqueous bath. |
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Like Pandora's box, once opened, it is going to be well nigh impossible to put back the troubles and close down the lid. |
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This prevailing linguistic approach to the Classics meant that the study of Ancient History was well nigh ignored in the Public Schools. |
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They recognized that getting the nuclear genie back in the bottle was nigh impossible. |
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The wooden floor beneath Lord Anuru began to twist and distort, as well as the walls and the ceiling which was now nigh gone. |
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The time was barely ten o'clock at night, but chilly gusts of wind with a taste of rain in them had well nigh depeopled the streets. |
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The end is nigh for the Savoy in Broad Green as the bulldozers prepare to demolish the 1930s cinema to make way for a new housing development. |
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After the initial shock and awe passes, commanding his respect will be nigh unto impossible. |
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I think it is nigh on impossible to remove religious teaching from the classroom. |
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The single-player missions are frantic and the multiplayer clashes online both frenetic and nigh on impossible to survive. |
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With all deference to the bigger issues, it is nigh on impossible to quantify the potential economic effects of these events. |
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Look at Northern Ireland, he suggested, where IRA weapons caches had eluded detection for nigh on 30 years. |
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Schleiermacher is already famous for his Satie interpretations and he gives well nigh definitive accounts of the music on disc. |
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In this peculiarly modern mood of social pessimism, the end is believed to be nigh but never comes. |
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Chancellor Schroeder is badly winged now and facing a well nigh impossible task to get re-elected. |
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The wicked mix of an acerbic tongue and a winning smile means holding grudges is nigh impossible. |
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So perhaps you'd be so very kind as to be repeating now the tale you and he have been telling for nigh on six months? |
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The young man had been waiting for well nigh a quarter of an hour while his father ignored him. |
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The end of the world seemed nigh and I fancy I saw the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the starting stalls. |
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Writing one novel must be taxing, but writing a novel within a novel within a novel within a novel must be nigh on impossible. |
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This February the visitor tally is nigh seven thousand, a more than threefold increase of which I'm mighty proud. |
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I've been totally drained of energy, and this morning, for instance, I found it nigh on impossible to get myself out of bed. |
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The limestone dust in the air coats our throats and drives us nigh mad with need for a drink. |
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He wrote to me a twelvemonth since, two months after his banishment, and told me that he lived in the forest nigh eleven miles east from here. |
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This reviewer sadly is not, so conveying more than two-and-a-half hours of pure joy into 250 words is nigh on impossible. |
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It's nigh impossible for me to approach this in an objective and unbiased manner. |
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I had known him for nigh on forty years, known him too for the great character that he was, the true gentleman, the sportsman supreme. |
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In terms of musicals, he has been there for nigh on 20 years, colonising foreign cities with his chorus lines. |
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Only one girl had escaped the powerful net of her authority in her fifty year career, and that had been well nigh twenty years ago. |
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It is to my shame, then, to tell you that one fair morning, a ship drew nigh in the banner of the horizon. |
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Yet this is at best difficult, if not nigh impossible, to fully reconcile with environmental protection and social justice. |
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It has used that rage mostly effectively for nigh on 50 years now, since Barry Goldwater. |
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And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. |
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Groups such as the Diggers and the Levellers believed that after the execution of Charles I, a biblical monarchy was nigh and that Jesus would be the king. |
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The time is nigh for the resurrection of these long-forgotten principles. |
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Once the company had stopped fiddling about with three-wheelers and converted post office vans, it developed a recipe that served it well for nigh on 30 years. |
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The kitchen door was on one of those springs to prevent it slamming shut, as a result of which it was well nigh impossible to close it with any kind of speed. |
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I spent nigh on two years slobbering over him, and got nowhere. |
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For nigh on 47 years, Kitty has been part of the post office structure. |
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Heaven knows why this has been a search item for nigh on 18 months now. |
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The only thing close to getting the media coverage that race relations has been getting for nigh on two months was what to do about superannuation. |
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The drifting snow obliterated lesser landmarks and covered the boundaries of roads and ditches with a covering several feet thick, making normal travel nigh on impossible. |
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As the new year draws nigh, this is a good time to show your appreciation for those who provided great service with a cash gift or small present. |
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For nigh on 20 years, he has held the nationalist standard in the threshing rooms and bars of the STUC all over the city. |
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For us to disentangle the persecution incidents from the rest is nigh on impossible without a body. |
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You'd reckon, at first glance, that Rupert Murdoch's own game of thrones was well nigh over. |
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Since starting this project, my life has been opening up in well nigh miraculous ways. |
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After all, it is nigh on impossible to prove that something is not the case and far easier to prove that something is the case. |
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Several times I have found myself in dangerous situations where I was facing firearms and knew the end might be nigh. |
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Indeed, the really threatening alternative is a nigh hopeless guerrilla war. |
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Abortion is such a standard gynaecological practice that it is nigh impossible to specialise in that field and refuse to carry out abortions. |
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Adequate information can be difficult or even well nigh impossible to carry out in the context of a constant work overload. |
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Getting the politics right is well nigh impossible in present circumstances. |
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The Court accepted that the so-called one way encoding of personal information could be carried out with a degree of certainty making decoding well nigh impossible. |
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With more power than most players, she dictates rallies and though her radar can go astray from time to time, when it is set right, she is nigh unbeatable, especially on grass. |
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Incidentally all 56 members of this field are wearing green skullcaps, which might make identifying who is doing what in the swim nigh on impossible. |
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At the time of signing the agreement, employers and union bosses insisted widely on the value of the social partnership that has reigned in the watch industry for nigh on 70 years. |
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Meanwhile golden oldie Kurt, 51, will finally make an honest woman of Goldie, 57, after an on-off relationship of nigh on 20 years. |
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After turning 80 in February, my wee dad Bobby Harvey has proven nigh on impossible to pin down as he's galavanting up and down the country. |
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In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts. |
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I have cried for many friends who have died in pain and agony from untreated illnesses as there was no medical care, and I have mourned the loss of friends who were secretly killed in the nigh because they were too stubborn. |
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We pulled every string we could for nigh on a year and a half. |
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A GROOM whose wedding was nearly banned over a stag night bust-up has claimed the court case had made his nigh cl cca ca marriage stronger. |
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The German Neue Kunst Gallery presented a painter who is obsessed with paper bags, his first artistic medium with which he has been working for nigh on 20 years. |
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People were convinced that the end of a corrupted world was nigh. |
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I thought now the jig was mighty nigh up with me, but I determined to keep a stiff upper lip. |
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And yet through that same flitch of bacon, He in a sack was well nigh taken By the quickhanded farmer's wife, And barely came off with his life. |
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It was nigh noon, and we had stopped at the cabin to unsaddle and bait. |
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I am a comparative youngster in Fandom, having been a fake-fan for nigh unto 2 years I cannot say that I remember the first issues of any of the above-mentioned editor's mags. |
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They went on very well with their work until it was nigh done, when there came the second epistle to Noah's fresh, and away went their mill, shot, lock, and barrel. |
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By these and many histories more, it is most evident, that the more nigh salvation and deliverance approach, the more vehement is temptation and trouble. |
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