nether

• But if we stãd and continue in dissemblinge / thẽ is the light of the truithe put owt / nether is there any cõfession made indede They bringe in also the examples of Zacharie / Iohn the Baptist / the virgin Marie / and Ioseph / which in the corupted and infected tymes whẽ they lyued dyd cõme vnto the seruice of God in the Tẽple of the Iues / The same thing maye be permitted to thẽ (they thincke) and that yt is as lawfull for thẽ to partake ãd vse the ceremonies in the popish churche be they neuer so corrupt. —  A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger
• He didna say muckle, but I'll swag he gey Pottie a neg on Teysday nicht that he'll no forget in a hurry--nether will Mistress Mollison Mind ye, I didna think Sandy was so deep. —  My Man Sandy
• It all made so much noise I scarcely heard a voice behind me say I'll lay a golden Louis his coat is of as queer a cut as his nether garment--whatever its outlandish name maybe Done," said another voice I gave no heed, thinking they meant not me, until a dapper little chap, all plumed and belaced, stepped in front of me with a most lordly air Hey, friend, who is thy tailor?" —  The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV
• Miss Anne was as sweet and gentle a lady as you'd wish to see; but her will was as hard as the nether millstone There's nothing like a death for showing up what a family is made of There isn't. —  The Farringdons
• Therefore Alan's desire to help the poor, and to make them happier, struck the dominant chord in her nature; but unfortunately when she raised her eyes, full of sympathetic sympathy, to his, she encountered that look in the latter which had frightened her at the beginning of the excursion; so she again clothed herself in her garment of flippancy, and hardened her heart as the nether millstone. —  The Farringdons

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