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Examples
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Every inch and fibre of you, will – less, without yea or nay,
Peer Gynt 2008
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Every inch and fibre of you, will – less, without yea or nay,
Peer Gynt 2008
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It may be supposed she had well considered and resolved this already; nay,
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Perhaps you may succeed with those who are infinitely superior in fortune; nay,
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But I was interested in the preservation of the venison and the vert more than the hunters or woodchoppers, and as much as though I had been the Lord Warden himself; and if any part was burned, though I burned it myself by accident, I grieved with a grief that lasted longer and was more inconsolable than that of the proprietors; nay,
Walden 2004
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Josephus, as also the Book of Maccabees, tells us, that this was done about the hundred and forty-eighth year of the Seleucidae: and at that time, nay,
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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One said it was a woman, and the other he said nay,
Three Jolly Welshmen 1954
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One said it was a frog, and the other he said nay,
Three Jolly Welshmen 1954
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One said it was a barn, and the other he said nay,
Three Jolly Welshmen 1954
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One said it was a babe, and the other he said nay,
Three Jolly Welshmen 1954
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