Word: yea
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Home from collecting in South and Central America for the Museum of the American Indian, A. Hyatt Verrill of Manhattan related of Indians living inland from Oldbank, Panama, that they employ the Elizabethan expressions "Gadzooks," "forsooth," "marry," "yea," "nay," "thee," "ye." Explanation: in 1680, Buccaneer Batholomew Sharp sailed to Panama with 350 lusties in The Most Blessed Trinity. They looted, killed, burned out the Spaniards, founded Oldbank, where today live many a Sharp, many a Coxon, Hawkins, Ringrose (names of Sharp's lieutenants...
...were famed, beginning with Kate's interpretation (at the age of 9) of knockings heard in the Fox house at Hydesville, N. Y., in 1848. Margaretta concurred in her sister's decision that the ghost was a murdered peddler. They translated one knock for "no," two for "yea," pointed at the alphabet to enable the spirit to spell out words. At Maria's home in Rochester, Kate and Margaretta established contact with deceased relatives, spread their fame, went to Buffalo where their public seances, first of the kind in history (excepting necromacy, etc.), were packed...
...With all such as may desire to filch these gifts we wish to live in peace and harmony, yea, even in open sincere amity, as without them we also cannot live a life of progress or rise to that greatness and glory which do honor to the sons of men. This is the substance of my ideas. It interprets all my proposals, all of which you know. Peace." (Signed) "ABD-EL-KRIM, El Khattabi...
...Government, but, instead, each party preserved its liberty of action by supporting a one-party Cabinet; thus each held the Government in the hollow of its hand. M. Briand sought to end this state of affairs by forming a coalition Cabinet. The Unified Socialists decided that before giving a yea or nay they must consult their National Council. It was presumed, however, that if the Unified Socialists refused to join the Cabinet, M. Briand would move to the Right and form a Government that would seem sure to pass muster with the Senate...
...true student cannot be bound by such restrictions. He will see in Emerson the model of what his attitude should be. "If there are conflicting evidences, why not state them? If there is not ground for a candid thinker to make up his mind, yea or nay,--why not suspend the judgement? . . . . I neither affirm nor deny. I stand here to try the case. I am here to consider...