1 Nay, nay, Brother Stangerson," cried the other; "the question is not how many wives we have, but how many we can keep.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE 2 Nay, nay," said De Bracy, "let the fair sovereign's throne remain unoccupied, until the conqueror shall be named, and then let him choose the lady by whom it shall be filled.
3 Nay, nay," said Prince John, impatiently, "I promise thee he heard me; and, besides, I have farther occupation for thee.
4 For she was the widow would say him nay.
5 She felt angry with him for not having got clear of a Bertha Coutts: nay, for ever having married her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 17 6 Nay, nay, I entreat you; for one moment put down your work.
Mansfield Park By Jane AustenGet Context In CHAPTER XXXIV 7 Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
8 He would gain cheerfulness, and she would learn to be an enthusiast for Scott and Lord Byron; nay, that was probably learnt already; of course they had fallen in love over poetry.
9 Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge: that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done.
10 To a degree, I could contradict this instantly; but, when I began to reflect that others might have felt the same--her own family, nay, perhaps herself--I was no longer at my own disposal.
11 Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee say me not nay.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyGet Context In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His 12 It was a very dubious-looking, nay, a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold and cheerless.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag. 13 In the serene weather of the tropics it is exceedingly pleasant the mast-head; nay, to a dreamy meditative man it is delightful.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head. 14 But in most creatures, nay in man himself, very often the brow is but a mere strip of alpine land lying along the snow line.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 79. The Prairie. 15 But again the old Manxman said nay.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 126. The Life-Buoy.