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cried No no
Varin recoiled in terror, and cried: “No, no, I will not.”
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

contracts not negotiable
These cases show an order of development parallel to the history of the assignment of other contracts not negotiable.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

current Nôs n
than Nogio, v. to stop; to be restive Nol, v. to fetch, to bring Non, n. a stream, a current Nôs, n. night.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

constitution no need
For countless years I judged there had been no danger of war or solitary violence, no danger from wild beasts, no wasting disease to require strength of constitution, no need of toil.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

conception nor no
Pray heaven it be state matters, as you think, And no conception nor no jealous toy Concerning you. DESDEMONA.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

carefully noticing new
—Besides carefully noticing new words, try to form groups of cognates (i.e. related words ).
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

cf nempe nam
pe = a form of que (cf. nempe = nam-pe = indeed)
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

CHILD No nurse
NURSE: Do you remember when your mother was a little girl? CHILD: No, nurse.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

couple nothing new
In the arbour Cordula explained why she had not come before; but her account told the elderly couple nothing new.
— from In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 07 by Georg Ebers

career no name
No career, no name, no position, no fortune, no past, no future, no anything.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Cummings no need
"Oh, no harm been done, Cummings; no need of your flying in such a stew for nothing.
— from Jim Cummings; Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery by A. Frank Pinkerton

cases no Nonconformist
But in the other cases no Nonconformist could be buried except with the Burial Service of the Established Church.
— from A Short History of English Liberalism by W. Lyon (Walter Lyon) Blease

counted ninety nests
In one instance he counted ninety nests in a single tree."
— from Extinct Birds An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those Birds which have become extinct in historical times by Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron

chamber no news
And thus no further tidings penetrated to that chamber, no news of the siege of Paris, of the defeats on the Loire, the daily renewed afflictions of the invasion.
— from The Downfall (La Débâcle): A Story of the Horrors of War by Émile Zola

certain name not
And this reminds me of a certain name not Latin."
— from A Strange Discovery by Charles Romyn Dake

combat natural necessity
To attempt to combat natural necessity, is to represent the folly of Ctesiphon, who undertook to kick with his mule.—[Plutarch, How to restrain Anger, c. 8.]
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Critobulus need no
Women, and especially young women (like our two friends' brides, Niceratus' and Critobulus'), need no perfume, being but compounds themselves of fragrance.
— from The Symposium by Xenophon


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