no account

• “On no account could she agree to a step which might afterwards cause bitter rueing to her husband for his blindness in wedding her.”

  Tess of the d'Urbervilles

• “J.B. gave in, sulkily, and then in a moment he was off on another tack, telling Stevens that when he took Colonel Washington hostage, he must on no account forget to bring away Lafayette's pistol and Frederick the Great's sword, and see to it that Washington in person handed the sword to one of our blacks.”

  Flashman and the angel of the lord

• “Because ` Comber 'was a poor crater of no account - but Flashman, V.C., is anither kettle o' fish a'thegither!" cries he, becoming Scotcher by the minute.”

  Flashman and the angel of the lord

• “Magsworth Bitts family with the arsenical Rena takes no account of Penrod Schofield.”

  Penrod

• “But with respect to your question, Tess, I say between ourselves, quite private but very strong, that on no account do you say a word of your Bygone Trouble to him.”

  Tess of the d'Urbervilles

• “It seems tolerably plain that this collection must always have been undertaken locally, and the threefold partition of tithes which is spoken of in the so-called "Capitulare episcoporum" and which reappears in the "Egbertine Exceptions" takes no account of any bishop's share.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “But the stream did not know any more of that than you know of what happened to you before you were born, and could give no account of itself except that it crept out from under a great heap of rubble far up in the Cañon of the Piñon Pines.”

  Good Stories for Great Holidays

• “I feel sure Alick meant no irreverence; indeed, I know that his mind was not of a speculative, negative cast, and he would on no account have missed going to church on Christmas Day, Easter”

  Adam Bede

• “We had strict injunctions, however, on no account to pass the falls of Reichenbach, which are about halfway up the hills, without making a small detour to see them.”

  The Adventure of the Final Problem

• “The first message gave no account of what had happened or where they were, but Tyrwhitt said, “Knowing where they were supposed to be, I dashed off at full speed and a few minutes later we received their position from Cressy and part of a signal which ended abruptly and then there was no more.””

  Castles of Steel

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