- Ishmael, however, is
haunted by a "nameless horror" so "mystical and
well nigh ineffable" that he
could hardly express; it was "the
whiteness of the...
-
mechanics and
Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made his
field a
well-
nigh finished theoretical structure".
Gibbs was born in New Haven, Connecticut...
-
moral justification. Rita
Kempley for The
Washington Post
called it "
well-
nigh unwatchable cruelty for its own sake". McCarthy, who
called the central...
- her gard. — Book III,
Canto XI The
lowest depths of
black mysticism are
well-
nigh as
difficult to
plumb as it is
arduous to
scale the
heights of sanctity...
-
called Frankenstein. In 1908, one
author said "It is
strange to note how
well-
nigh universally the term "Frankenstein" is misused, even by
intelligent people...
- his own in
determining the site for the
Temple at Jerusalem, and he had
well-
nigh succeeded in
proving by his
arguments that David, as a
descendant of Ruth...
-
typical usage in the
region where it was grown: The
chewing of
tobacco was
well-
nigh universal. This
habit had been
widespread among the
agricultural po****tion...
- the east nor of the west the oil
whereof [is so
bright that it]
would well-
nigh give
light [of itself] even
though fire had not
touched it:
light upon...
-
Truman Capote wrote: "…many
critics reviewing [the film]
remarked on the
well-
nigh plagiaristic resemblance between [Dean's]
acting mannerisms and [Marlon]...
- in a
letter dated 3
December 1929: "I must not
delay in
expressing my
well-
nigh delirious delight at The Tale of
Satampra Zeiros [Smith's
short story]...
