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  • Gudrun says, “Nowise good are these dreams, yet shall they come to pass; surely thy sons are nigh to death, and many heavy things shall fall upon us.”

    The Story of the Volsungs 2008

  • Nowise to cast aside my hope of escape, nay, not even in that hour, said

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Nowise it so befell; they were no more come than was the Day of

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • Nowise had they bliss from their booty then to devour their victim, vengeful creatures, seated to banquet at bottom of sea; but at break of day, by my brand sore hurt, on the edge of ocean up they lay, put to sleep by the sword.

    Beowulf 2003

  • Nowise had they bliss from their booty then to devour their victim, vengeful creatures, seated to banquet at bottom of sea; but at break of day, by my brand sore hurt, on the edge of ocean up they lay, put to sleep by the sword.

    Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

  • Nowise had they bliss from their booty then to devour their victim, vengeful creatures, seated to banquet at bottom of sea; but at break of day, by my brand sore hurt, on the edge of ocean up they lay, put to sleep by the sword.

    Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

  • Nowise asserting this as a rigid formula, we may yet recognize that, while asceticism did gain ascendency in traditional

    PROBLEM OF EVIL RADOSLAV A. TSANOFF 1968

  • Nowise daunted, the reverend gentleman took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves and went to work with a will, making the vault re-echo with his blows.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

  • Nowise precipitate judgment -- too weighty the issue at stake!

    Graded Poetry: Seventh Year Various

  • Nowise convinced, she nevertheless obeyed the stern command, and acknowledged herself in the wrong.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

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