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as Navan that is new grain

In some parts of Northern India the festival of the new crop is known as Navan, that is, “new grain.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Ah nowadays that is no guarantee

Ah, nowadays that is no guarantee of respectability of character.
— from The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde

another now there is no getting

If you are, I don't know who will take you in; for people are so afraid of one another now, there is no getting a lodging anywhere.
— from History of the Plague in London by Daniel Defoe

all night there is no getting

You had better stay in the room with him all night; there is no getting hold of another bed, but——” “I shall do just as well without a bed,” Frank said; “since I landed at Marsala I have hardly slept in one; besides, I don’t fancy that I shall sleep much, anyhow.
— from Out with Garibaldi: A story of the liberation of Italy by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

as nineteen that is no good

No one jumping less than twenty-one feet has any chance in a first-class competition, and it would have done us as much good if Dick had done nine feet as nineteen; that is, no good at all.
— from At Start and Finish by William Lindsey

as Navan that is new grain

188 In some parts of Northern India the festival of the new crop is known as Navan , that is, “new grain.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12) by James George Frazer

A new town is now gradually

A new town is now gradually rising at the place; “so that,” says Mr. Juland Danvers, “when the dangers and difficulties of its infancy are passed, the whole scheme of establishing a port on the Mutlah will be in a more promising condition.
— from Rambles on Railways by Roney, Cusack P., Sir

are not there is no God

And if these things are not, there is no God.
— from An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by John Taylor

all night there is no great

Peat does not easily catch light and the fires are generally kept burning all night; there is no great flame such as you get with a coal fire, but still there is quite a nice heat.
— from Lessons on Soil by Russell, Edward J. (Edward John), Sir

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