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Sentences starting with nay

Nay and she might have done so if the little thing had not clung round my neck with its right arm that had no hurt, as lovingly as though it had been mine own and no kin to the shrieking old woman. [10]
Nay and even his voice, as he spoke, had a sharp ring in it, as though the bells had cracked which erewhile had tolled so sweet a peal. [10]
Nay and Eppelein's boasting of the gold his young lord had squandered in Paris, and wherewith he had filled his varlet's pockets, gave weight to this evil slander. [10]
Nay more. [10]
Nay more! [10]

Sentences ending with nay

These were they who had lost fathers and brothers; and now were going out alone with the shadow of the plague over them, for there was none to say them nay. [11]
Yea, and I was too full of care for the happiness of my brother and of my friend to be ready to think of my own; so I could only speak him fair, but say him nay. [10]
I say not this to cry him clown; I find my Shakespeare in his clown, His rogues the self-same parent own; Nay! [6]
And Eve, remarks the old philosopher of Radwinter--"Eve will be Eve, though Adam would say nay. [4]
Yet to the Junker's question whether she were plighted to another, and whether he were minded to wed her, Hans was forced in truth to say nay. [10]
Who can say him nay? [11]
Here at least he could be himself, he thought, here no one should say him nay. [11]
Inshallah, you are as free as a bird on the mountain top, to soar to far lands and none to say thee nay. [11]
But he replied: "Nay, nay. [10]
Nay, nay. [10]

Short sentences using nay

Nay, do not weep. [11]
Nay, you were too good. [11]
Nay, leave it so. [10]
Nay, I make no excuse. [9]
Nay, by no means! [10]
Nay, still loved him. [9]
Nay, 'tis folly, folly, folly! [5]
Nay, more, Cousin Dick. [11]
Nay, nay, hush! [11]
Nay, worse! [10]

Sentences containing nay two or more times

Nay, nay, be silent still, my brothers. [11]
Nay, nay, Leukippe, for the present all shall be left to my old woman. [10]
Nay, nay! [10]

More example sentences with the word nay in them

Nay, makers of your gods, Each day ye break an image in your shrine And plant a fairer image where it stood Where is the Moloch of your fathers' creed, Whose fires of torment burned for span-long babes? [6]
He places at your disposal--this time, at least, he was not economical--a sum which will take you to the healing springs four or five times, nay, oftener still. [10]
Nay, let the young, who have no wrongs to satisfy, let the young who have dreams and visions and hopes, rule; not the old lion of the hills, who loves too well himself and his rugged ease of body and soul. [11]
Nay, many a young Alexandrian, passing the group on foot or in a carriage, looked at her a second time, for that smile lent a mysterious charm to her pale, calm face. [10]
He looked like you, he spoke like you, he called the men as you do, nay he sat as you do when the road was too bad for his chariot, [The Mohars used chariots in their journeys. [10]
But I tell you there will be sensible men enough in every ward, every guild, nay, even in the council, and among the burgomasters. [10]
Each one, if you separate it from the whole and give it a careful examination, is worthy of inspection, nay, of admiration. [10]
Nay, my dears, you need not cry out, such was the custom of the times. [9]
Nay, I would write him that day. [9]
At first he wore the surplice, stole, and hood, took the eastward position, and intoned the service, and no man said him nay, but watched him curiously and was sorrowful--he was so youthful, clear of eye, and bent on doing heroical things. [11]
The scene was wondrously beautiful, but Xanthe had not gone to the spring to gaze at the landscape; nay, she scarcely knew that it was lovely. [10]
Nay, he interrupted Wolf with the assurance that, on the contrary, the Emperor on such days frequently relied upon solemn hymns to transport him into a fitting mood. [10]
He crept about with heedful care and never a word, prying as he went, and presently I could see that he shook his big head as though in doubt, nay, or in sorrow. [10]
Nay, if you will have the kindness to notice, Nature has not gifted my lady musk-deer with the personal peculiarity by which her lord is so widely known. [6]
Nay, and I will even pledge my word that I will tear asunder the subtlest web which Ursula may spin, in especial if I have Ann's keen wit to aid me. [10]
How dishevelled, nay, wild, Barbara, who was usually so well dressed, looked! [10]
Nay, what father whose two bright young sons had been murdered, but would have done as he did? [10]
The wench to whom he plighted his love was the daughter of a common craftsman, Pernhart the coppersmith, and when this came to my ears it angered me greatly; nay, and cost me bitter tears, as I told it to Ann. [10]
Meanwhile shouts and whistles were still heard; nay, when Tarautas came out on the arena in the highly decorated armor of a Roman legate, at the head of a troop of heavily armed men, and again greeted the emperor, the commotion began afresh. [10]
The pure brow, which seemed to him too high for a woman's face, wore an indignant frown; and though her mouth was beautiful in form, its outlines were often marred by a passionate tremor that lent the exquisitely chiselled features a harsh, nay, bitter expression. [10]
The tender smile which played on his features filled her soul with the certainty that he would vouchsafe to be gracious; nay, she could believe that he moved those marble lips and promised to grant her prayer. [10]
Never a soul, whether master or man, said her nay in the lightest thing, to my knowledge, and this was a plea for the one fault which had hitherto set me against her. [10]
Now, I thought, when this horrible woman represented the transformation into the spider with such repulsive accuracy, Hermon will believe that this is the true, and therefore the right, ideal; nay, I was deceived myself while gazing. [10]
Nay, if I were a man and could use a sword--" "Dorothy! [9]
Nay, he presently went to such lengths that our Franconian and Nuremberg nobles could but turn away their faces, inasmuch as he began so wild and unseemly a dance as was overmuch even for me, despite my youth and sheer delight in the quick measure. [10]
Nay, or ever we had ceased he had taken his foot from the stag's neck, and at length we walked with him back to the forest lodge, half amused, yet half grieved, with the mocking words he tormented us with. [10]
How many trees we climbed, what steep cliffs we scaled, through what crevices we squeezed to add a rare egg to our collection; nay, we even risked our limbs and necks! [10]
But the king watches over the laws, and guides the destiny cf this land, the king must blame you, nay perhaps punish you. [10]
Nay, her emotion was so vehement that the bright tears streamed down her fat cheeks. [10]
Though her voice was no longer so free from sharpness and harshness as in the old days, it by no means jarred upon the ear; nay, every tone revealed its admirable training. [10]
And yet there was in him something which attracted her; nay, and it nettled her that he should forget her presence. [10]
Nay, and I was fain to go to churches and chapels, inasmuch as I was secure there from the speech of man. [10]
Nay, he found very soon that the feeling of security, without any sordid worry, gave freedom to his imagination. [4]
It is not very polite of him to go off in this way without taking leave; nay, I could call it ungrateful, since I had proposed to tell him on our way home all about my brother Euergetes, who has arrived to-day with his friends. [10]
The prisoner, mounted upon a tall steed, had pressed him very closely; nay, the Eletto's victory was not decided, until a musket-shot had stretched the other's horse on the ground. [10]
It would be unnatural, nay, suspicious, if she did not sometimes long for the old freedom and her former companions. [10]
To have fallen under suspicion of heresy would have been the last thing Barbara expected, and she called it foolish, nay, ridiculous. [10]
Nay, Art serves Truth, and Truth with Titan blows, Strikes fearless at all evil that it knows. [11]
Nay, more, the traveler steps into a car--which is as comfortable as a house--in Boston, and alights from it only in the City of Mexico. [4]
I address myself to the company.--I believe in temperance, nay, almost in abstinence, as a rule for healthy people. [6]
Howbeit I had to put on a guise of content, nay of gladness, for the Royal pair had bidden me to their side and it was my task to explain all they desired to learn. [10]
You were born to power in a small way; I have won mine myself, and shall not rest until I am permitted to exercise it on a great scale, nay, the grandest. [10]
To die there, to perish there with her lover, did not seem hard; nay, she felt proud to think that she might await death in the noblest edifice ever raised to a god by mortal hands. [10]
Then he turned to Melissa and asked her: "Would you for their sakes be able to make up your mind to face bitter humiliation, nay, perhaps imminent danger? [10]
Nay, she appealed to me many times a day to know whether she had made any mistakes, and I began to drill her in my silly traditions,--gently, very gently. [9]
So many wished to look upon Elsie's face once more, that her father would not deny them; nay, he was pleased that those who remembered her living should see her in the still beauty of death. [6]
Colonel Carvel began to hum softly to himself:-- "'One said it was an owl, and the other he said nay, One said it was a church with the steeple torn away, Look a' there now! [9]
Nay, it seemed to Honora that the very animals knew him, and offered themselves ingratiatingly to be stroked by one whom they recognized as friend. [9]
It rather seemed to her that she was his, and he would no longer be the same if he were separated from her, nay, as if her very love was hers also. [10]
Massi had listened to her rapid words in warm; nay, he was thoroughly startled. [10]
I have merely to go out of my door; nay, I may stay at home at my chambers, and I shall have enough to do and enjoy. [6]
Nay, we cease to feel shame when we have lived to feel such profound contempt for the world. [10]
I am sorry to destroy the confidence of your youth, but whoever grows grey, with his eyes open, will meet persons who rejoice, nay to whom it is a necessity to injure others. [10]
Nay, I intended to cast all the weight of my maternal influence between Heinz and the Nuremberg maiden. [10]
At the same time, methought that for certain some new and terrible sorrow hung over us nay, never so clearly as then, after Abenberger's violent attack, had I perceived how much alone and without protection I stood in the world. [10]
The money they thus earned served to help maintain the poorer scholars, and to be sure, my brother was ready to forego his share; nay, and a great part of his own pocket-money went to those twelve, for among them were comrades he truly loved. [10]
Nay, when he thought over his conversation, he suspected him of more,--of the intention to marry Virginia Carvel. [9]
She felt as though everything which surrounded her was too small, the house, the apartments, her own chamber, nay, her very clothing. [10]
He knew her thoroughly, and was aware that her desire to follow the man she loved into the realm of death was sincere; nay, that it dominated her whole being. [10]
The creator of this work was not only one of the foremost artists of his day, nay, he had also been permitted to fathom the nature of the deity and to bestow upon it a perfect form. [10]
So soon as they reached Stephanus' cave, both turned their backs on Paulus with conspicuously marked intention; nay the acolyte signed his brow with the cross, as if he thought it necessary to protect himself against evil influences. [10]
They boast that they love death and hate life; and when they are the victors they will destroy lute and pipe, nay, if they could, would exterminate beauty and extinguish the sun. [10]
She would be there; nay, when he looked at the dial from a different angle, was there. [9]
Nay, what would the world be without her? [4]
I have reached the time of life which I have dreamed, nay even ventured to hope, might be the limit of the sentence which was pronounced upon me in my infancy. [6]
Henrica recognized in the speaker the musician Wilhelm, but only by his voice, for the morion on his curls and the blood-stained coat of mail gave the unassuming artist a martial, nay heroic air. [10]
Nay, it was the plume in Gotz's hat, towering above the throng, which showed us that they were come. [10]
Nay, I accuse the noble Althea of withholding from Nike, in her personation, her special ornament--her swift, powerful wings. [10]
The leaders of the mutineers were standing on the wall of earth between the field-pieces, and amid the foremost rank, nay, in front of them all, her son was addressing the crowd. [10]
Nay, even in the midst of the silent dwelling of the speechless Sisters, right merry laughter might be heard during the hours of rest, and in spite of the thick walls of the class-room it reached the nuns' ears. [10]
To her father the loss of his house, nay, perhaps of his wealth, would seem almost unendurable, yet even were he beggared, provision was made for him and his daughter. [10]
To see even the least of them surpassed by another vexed her; and to behold in yonder woman a form which she could not deny was no less beautiful, enraged, nay, pierced her to the heart. [10]
The shouts of the guards, the rattling of the chain, his wretched companions in misfortune, nay, all that surrounded him, could not fail to recall the fate awaiting him. [10]
Under such circumstances the gods themselves cannot separate the individual from the multitude; nay, even the innocent animals share the penalty. [10]
The pupil, nay the friend of the learned Groot, the young wife who had grown up in the society of highly educated men, the enthusiastic patriot, felt that she was capable of being more, far more to her husband, than he asked. [10]
Every member of the five hundred was provided with a copy; nay, nearly every member was personally appealed to, to appear and speak for the measures. [9]
He still relished the draught from the beaker of homage proffered by his fellow-citizens; nay, it seemed as if it could not lose its sweetness for a long time. [10]
Fleischmann, Hellfeld, nay the Dominican prior himself--what are they? [10]
She must know the day and hour when he had cast anchor there, wherefor he had chosen to lodge in the Genoa Fondaco, when I last had seen him, nay, and of what stuff and color his garments were made. [10]
Nay, she had the best of all; for Katterle, Eva told him, would soon arrive. [10]
Nay, more than that, it could have no sympathy with him. [4]
Nay, the thought that Wolff owed his life to him aided her always to be kind to her father-in-law, no matter how much he wounded her, and to tend him no less carefully than she had formerly cared for her invalid mother. [10]
Nay, what was that which obscured its outline, in shape like a human figure? [6]
Nay, and since that time he has shot many a fiery glance at me. [10]
For she felt that she could turn to Starling; he alone, apparently, had measured the full depth of her trouble; nay, had silently predicted it from the beginning. [9]
Nay, they declare that all this country west of the mountains, too, will be broken off and set up into a republic, and allied with that most glorious of all republics, France. [9]
Children betray their tendencies in their way of dealing with the breasts that nourish them; nay, lean venture to affirm, that long before they are born they teach their mothers something of their turbulent or quiet tempers. [3]
Both were equally tall and well formed; the features bore witness to their Greek origin; nay, they might have been taken for brothers, had not the architect's whole appearance seemed sturdie and plainer than that of his companion, whom he called "Dion" and friend. [10]
Nay, her heart swelled with grateful joy because she had been so patient and suffered nothing to divert her from the arduous duty which she had undertaken in nursing the old man, who regarded her with such disfavour. [10]
Nay, she was surprised to find now that she had actually hoped for these. [9]
Herdegen, to be sure, was likewise famed in Nuremberg as a doughty champion; yet it is ever the way in Franconia, nay, and in all Germany, to esteem outlandish means more highly than the best at home. [10]
Nay, I was sure from the troubled look of his face that he knew of it. [9]
Every movement was subdued; anxious, nay, fearful expectation was written on many faces, and on others impatience and disappointment. [10]
I have behaved strangely, nay unbecomingly, and now that which is hard to endure is hanging over me, something strange-which will perhaps drive you from me back to your mother. [10]
It is the spirit that stoopeth the shoulders, I ween, and not the weight; for armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.... Nay, but me no buts, offer me no objections. [5]
During the journey, sometimes in a peasant's cart, sometimes in a freight wagon, she had thought often of little Juliane, and always with a quiet, nay, a contented heart. [10]
Surprise, unrest, nay, some little jealousy had been mingled with her delight at Gorgo's singing. [10]
Nay, she went so far as to tell how she came by me. [9]
Nay, I shall smile: The wine is drunk, the flower it is gone, One weeps not when the days no more beguile, How shall the tear-drops gather in a stone? [11]
With a deep sigh she raised her eyes and hands to heaven, and in her longing to prove her love to every living being, nay to every created thing, her spirit sought the mighty and beneficent Power to whom she owed such exalted happiness. [10]

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