He makes the following surprisingly penetrative comment on the nature and significance of Calvin's Latin style: "I considered how the author thereof had of long time purposely labored to write the same most exactly, and to pack great plenty of matter in small room of words, yea and those so circumspectly and precisely ordered, to avoid the cavillations of such, as for enmity to the truth therein contained, would gladly seek and abuse all advantages which might be found by any oversight in penning of it, that the sentences were thereby become so full as nothing might well be added without idle superfluity, and again so Nighly pared that nothing might be minished without taking away some necessary substance of matter therein expressed.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
We took a bit of mate with us and flint and steel, and many was the things that she taught to me on the road for a body to make herself Nighly as comfortable in the open air as in ever a house.
"The Drummer's Coat"
J. W. Fortescue
"It must have been Nighly a week after we started that General Craufurd tooked a different road from we; and we went on without mun.
"The Drummer's Coat"
J. W. Fortescue