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Examples
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It should be of that nature his business, which volens nolens he must necessarily undergo, and without great loss, mulct, shame, or hindrance, he may not omit.
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One day it will take my in its complete grip and then I will have to sit down and write it, nolens volens.
Where Do Little Stories Come From, Mummy? Sharon Bakar 2005
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The result to me is that, nolens volens, I must go up to Estes Park, where I can live without ready money, and remain there till things change for the better.
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“Jim,” nolens volens, dragged me along with a patience and skill, and withal a determination that I should ascend the
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Heremon, nolens volens, brood our pansies, brune in brume.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Flext vnum genu tanquam homini: tunc innuit quod ambo flecterem, quod et feci, nolens contendere super hoc.
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Natura opprimi nolens, excessus huius expulsionem conatur.
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The counter-trick is to say: “I beg your pardon; but, with your penetrating intellect, it must be very easy for you to understand anything; and it can only be my poor statement of the matter that is at fault”; and then go on to rub it into him until he understands it nolens volens, and sees for himself that it was really his own fault alone.
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Baatu in reditu nostro præceperat ei, quod transferret se de illo loco vltra Etiliam ad Orientem, nolens nuncios Saracenorum transire per eum, quia videbatur sibi damnosum.
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Baatu in reditu nostro pr鎐eperat ei, quod transferret se de illo loco vltra Etiliam ad Orientem, nolens nuncios Saracenorum transire per eum, quia videbatur sibi damnosum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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