Word: nay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creator of "the ingenious knight of La Mancha" was ingenious enough to give his guards a good deal of trouble. After one of Cervantes' daring attempts to escape, the Turkish commander remarked: "So long as I have the maimed Spaniard secure, my slaves and my ships, nay the whole city will be safe." But when Cervantes finally got back to Spain, he found nothing but poverty and idleness. He had a wife, a mistress, and an illegitimate child to support. Says Biographer Bell: "We may suspect that his life at Madrid at this time was not unlike that...
...This child of mine has been resolutely kept to the average intelligence of thirteen years . . . as though you and your sponsors believe the majority of listeners have only moron minds. Nay, the curse of his commercials has grown consistently more cursed, year by year...
...Gilead said unto him, "Art thou an Ephraimite?" If he said, "Nay" then they said unto him, "Say now shibboleth," and he said "Sibboleth" for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him and slew him at the passages of Jordan.-Judges...
...game, and should the banner of Green be unfurled Fair Harvard's buildings will not collapse. 'Tis no nuclear fission, no Hiroshima. Nay, no Shakesperian tragedy. The sun will shine as brightly Sunday--Lest perchance should rain come down like Niobe's tears...
Jack Cade: Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo...