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name is not to

(Calling one's self merely Somebody, without giving a name, is not to be taken as an example of the ill-breeding of the rural world: it springs from a refined modesty, of which townspeople, with their cards and announcements, have no notion whatever.)
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

ngábil ilhánang nanaway The

Lambì ang ngábil, ilhánang nanaway, The lower lip is sticking out, a sign that he is criticising you.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

need is needful to

When ye are willers of one will, and when that change of every need is needful to you: there is the origin of your virtue.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

names in neighbouring tribes

This taboo naturally produced a plentiful crop of synonyms in the Maori language, and travellers newly arrived in the country were sometimes puzzled at finding the same things called by quite different names in neighbouring tribes.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Numinahun inuminar numinahan ta

Numinahun (inuminar, numinahan) ta siya pagkasarhintu, Let’s nominate him sergeant-at-arms.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Neither I nor thou

Neither I, nor thou, nor any man upon the earth.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

now I never turn

I hear,--for now I never turn to look-- Too sure to hear his cane tap down the steps; He seats himself:--with gentle raillery He mocks my tapestry that's never done; He tells me all the gossip of the week. . .
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

name is now throughout

could she but fully, truly, know How her great name is now throughout abhorr'd:
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

nothing in Norfolk to

The sisters, handsome, clever, and encouraging, were an amusement to his sated mind; and finding nothing in Norfolk to equal the social pleasures of Mansfield, he gladly returned to it at the time appointed, and was welcomed thither quite as gladly by those whom he came to trifle with further.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

nature is not to

The great error of our nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable acquirement; not to compound with our condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable pursuit after more.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

no is nothing to

Whether Cæsar seduce this minx or no is nothing to me.
— from The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

now is not to

I say nothing of the great trade driven here from Holland, back again to England, because I take it to be a trade carried on with much less honesty than advantage, especially while the clandestine trade, or the art of smuggling was so much in practice: what it is now, is not to my present purpose.
— from Tour through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 by Daniel Defoe

nature is not too

But a great work of art which is also a great record of nature is not too common—and this is what it is.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

nature is not the

(3) The thesis: causality according to the laws of nature, is not the only one from which the phenomena of the world may be deduced, but these may be explained through a causality in freedom; and the antithesis: there is no freedom, but every thing in the world happens only according to natural laws.
— from A History of Philosophy in Epitome by Albert Schwegler

nation is not to

No! the high and glorious aim and true function of the German nation is not to try to conquer by the “mailed fist” either on land or sea, but to show how the world may be dominated by proving to mankind the grand results which accrue to civilization when a nation has both the power and the determination to carry out its high ideals.
— from The Right Honourable Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe P.C., D.C.L., F.R.S. A Biographical Sketch by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe

now is not the

But if now is not the time the branch churches can wait for the favored moment to act on this subject."
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 by Various

new is not true

If any one attempt to change your opinions you cry, What is new is not true, What is true is not new, and you rudely pull his hand from the subject.
— from Vikram and the Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu Devilry by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

noseband is necessary to

This little noseband is necessary to keep the bit called an “upper jaw bit” in its place: namely, under the upper jaw, just as the regular bit is upon the under jaw.
— from Riding for Ladies: With Hints on the Stable by O'Donoghue, Power, Mrs.

ny is not to

ny is not to your mind."
— from The Pagan's Cup by Fergus Hume

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