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  • Says he, laughing a little at my words, but otherwise making no motion of having heard them: 'Nay,

    Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • He did not like to have this recalled, or, perhaps, thinking that I boasted improperly, resolved to have a witty stroke at me: 'Nay,

    Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Tim said, 'Thou's late starting wheriver to, Ben;' and Ben said, 'Nay,

    The Hallam Succession Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

  • More, and make of him for the time a Child of the Mist --- Nay,

    A Legend of Montrose 1871

  • 'Come, Cilla, or I shall indite a page in the diary, headed Faint heart -- Ah!' as her foot slipped on the stones, and she fell backwards, but with instant efforts at rising, such as assured her cousin that no harm was done, 'Nay,

    Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • -- 'The boy I believe wants me to swear too' -- 'Ay; do, Sir; take an oath not to disown me; and indeed indeed I'll die willingly to deserve your favour' -- 'Disown you' -- 'Nay,

    The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Thomas Holcroft 1777

  • Claim to the Jus trium Liberorum, or the Privileges which were granted by the Roman Laws to all such as were Fathers of three Children: Nay,

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

  • _ Oh Lord, sweet Sir, I hope you do not take me -- Nay,

    The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664

  • Whereto the lady portress added, “If thou bring anything thou art a something; if no thing, be off with thee, thou art a nothing;” but the procuratrix interposed, saying, “Nay,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Bess herself acknowledges Louisa’s superiority, although her sincerity is questionable: ‘Nay,

    Money, Matrimony, and Memory: Secondary Heroines in Radcliffe, Austen, and Cooper 2006

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