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Meanings of very nick in English

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Usage of very nick in English
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But you have only arrived in the very nick of time, Umu.
Harry Escombe: A Tale of Adventure in Peru
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The doctor had come that night in the very nick of time.
The Junior Classics, Volume 6: Old-Fashioned Tales
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Then in the very nick of time this cheque comes along.
The Loudwater Mystery
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Isaac Mole himself, turned up in the very nick of time.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks / Book Number Fifteen...
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He saw Shadow dodge in the very nick of time.
Whitefoot the Wood Mouse
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Your statistics have reached me in the very nick of time, and are invaluable.
Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography
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We had indeed come about in the very nick of time to avoid disaster.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
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He arrived in the grey old capital of Scotland in the very nick of time.
Biographies of Working Men
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But it came at the very nick of time.
True to his Colours / The Life that Wears Best
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We had come in the very nick of time.
The Red Axe
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Now you appear in the very nick of time, just when I was almost in despair.
The Passenger from Calais
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They themselves had escaped the rising waters by some miracle in the very nick of time.
The Rains Came
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I know that rogue perfectly well, and he has come in the very nick of time.
Folk-Tales of Napoleon / Napoleonder from the Russian; The Napol...
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Mrs. Wilders tells me she has come up alone, and in the very nick of time.
The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood
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A most politic concession of the franchise checked all further disaffection in the very nick of time.
The Gracchi Marius and Sulla / Epochs of Ancient History
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Just in the very nick of time.
Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigands of Greece
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