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589-592 Who, besides Temple (Pitt's Brother-in-law) confirmatory of Pitt, Bute negatory, and Newcastle SILENT, the other beautiful gentlemen were, I will not ask; but poor old Carteret,--the wine perhaps sour on his stomach (old age too, with German memories of his own, "A biggish Life once mine, all futile for want of this same Kingship like Pitt's!")— History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20
Altogether cold on that subject, her Imperial Majesty seems; regardless of Excellency Keith's remonstrances and urgencies; and, in the end, is flatly negatory: "Cannot do it, your Excellency; times so perilous, bad King of Prussia so minatory,"--not to mention, SOTTO VOCE that we have turned on our axis, and the wind (thanks to Kaunitz) no longer hits us on the same cheek as formerly Cannot?— History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17
Big Bang Theory is a negatory, unless space poop has been a running gag I've been unaware of.— Comments for Cultural Learnings
Finally, on Friday the 15th of July 1791, the National Assembly decides; in what negatory manner we know.— The French Revolution
Commissioners arch their eyebrows, with negatory sniff: who is this young gentleman with more wit than we all?— The French Revolution

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