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...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...
...Britain had made skeptical sounds about low U.S. golf scores (like Byron Nelson's phenomenal 68.3 average last year). The scores were phony, said this Briton, because they were made on easy courses, with the ball teed up on the fairway. No U.S. golfer could say him nay,*but somebody in Britain had to pay for saying...
...William O. Douglas read another majority opinion. This was the case: Should a man who refused to bear arms for the U.S., but who was willing to do noncombatant military service, be admitted to U.S. citizenship? Five Justices had ruled Yes. The Chief Justice and two others had voted Nay...