Thus satisfied, Chauvelin returned to the Abbaye. Hebert was safe and trustworthy, but Hebert, too, had been assailed with the same doubts which had well-nigh wrecked Chauvelin's triumph, and with such doubts in his mind he might slacken his vigilance.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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with lesson-books to be conned; emblems of a past that had sunk down and well-nigh vanished under the earth
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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From the foregoing account it will be seen that in Newspeak the expression of unorthodox opinions, above a very low level, was well—nigh impossible.