Quotes: N
509 quotations.
Nadir
The seventh century is the nadir of the human mind in Europe.
Nail
His nayles like a briddes claws were.
He is now dead, and nailed in his chest.
The rivets of your arms were nailed with gold.
When they came to talk of places in town, you saw at once how I nailed them.
Nake
Come, be ready, nake your swords.
Naked
Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Thy power is full naked.
Behold my bosom naked to your swords.
Patriots who had exposed themselves for the public, and whom they saw now left naked.
The truth appears so naked on my side, That any purblind eye may find it out.
All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
The very naked name of love.
Nakedness
Ham . . . saw the nakedness of his father.
Nale
Great feasts at the nale.
Namby-pamby
Namby-pamby madrigals of love.
Name
Whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
What men of name resort to him?
Far above . . . every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.
I will get me a name and honor in the kingdom.
He hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin.
The king's army . . . had left no good name behind.
The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities.
They list with women each degenerate name.
She named the child Ichabod.
Thus was the building left Ridiculous, and the work Confusion named.
None named thee but to praise.
Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the underlying dead.
Whom late you have named for consul.
Nameless
A nameless dwelling and an unknown name.
But what it is, that is not yet known; what I can not name; 't is nameless woe,I wot.
I have a nameless horror of the man.
Namely
The solitariness of man . . . God hath namely and principally ordered to prevent by marriage.
For the excellency of the soul, namely, its power of divining dreams; that several such divinations have been made, none can question.
Nap
I took thee napping, unprepared.
Narcotic
Nercotykes and opye (opium) of Thebes.
Narrative
But wise through time, and narrative with age.
Cyntio was much taken with my narrative.
Narrow
Hath passed in safety through the narrow seas.
The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world.
A very narrow and stinted charity.
But first with narrow search I must walk round This garden, and no corner leave unspied.
Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow.
Our knowledge is much more narrowed if we confine ourselves to our own solitary reasonings.
Nascent
Nascent passions and anxieties.
Nastiness
The nastiness of Plautus and Aristophanes.
Natal
Princes' children took names from their natal places.
Propitious star, whose sacred power Presided o'er the monarch's natal hour.
Nation
All nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues.
A nation is the unity of a people.
Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Nationality
The fulfillment of his mission is to be looked for in the condition of nationalities and the character of peoples.
Native
Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times.
Courage is native to you.
the head is not more native to the heart, . . . Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.
Nativity
I have served him from the hour of my nativity.
Thou hast left . . . the land of thy nativity.
These in their dark nativity the deep Shall yield us, pregnant with infernal flame.
Natural
With strong natural sense, and rare force of will.
What can be more natural than the circumstances in the behavior of those women who had lost their husbands on this fatal day?
I call that natural religion which men might know . . . by the mere principles of reason, improved by consideration and experience, without the help of revelation.
To leave his wife, to leave his babes, . . . He wants the natural touch.
The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God.
It should be borne in mind that the natural system of botany is natural only in the constitution of its genera, tribes, orders, etc., and in its grand divisions.
Naturalize
Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate.
Infected by this naturalizing tendency.
Nature
But looks through nature up to nature's God.
When, in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bonds which have connected them with another, ans to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal Station which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to the Separation.
Nature has caprices which art can not imitate.
I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Thou, therefore, whom thou only canst redeem, Their nature also to thy nature join, And be thyself man among men on earth.
A dispute of this nature caused mischief.
Oppressed nature sleeps.
Have we not seen The murdering son ascend his parent's bed, Through violated nature force his way?
A born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick.
That reverence which is due to a superior nature.
He [God] which natureth every kind.
Naught
Doth Job fear God for naught?
To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied.
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer.
Go, get you to your house; begone, away! All will be naught else.
Things naught and things indifferent.
No man can be stark naught at once.
Naughtiness
I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart.
Naughtly
because my parents naughtly brought me up.
Naughty
[Men] that needy be and naughty, help them with thy goods.
The other basket had very naughty figs.
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Nauseate
The patient nauseates and loathes wholesome foods.
Nauseous
The nauseousness of such company disgusts a reasonable man.
nay
And eke when I say “ye,” ne say not “nay.”
I tell you nay; but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
And now do they thrust us out privily? nay, verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay.
Nayward
Howe'er you lean to the nayward.
Ne
He never yet no villany ne said.
No niggard ne no fool.
Neap
High springs and dead neaps.
Near
My wife! my traitress! let her not come near me.
Near about the yearly value of the land.
He served great Hector, and was ever near, Not with his trumpet only, but his spear.
She is thy father's near kinswoman.
A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! And still it neared, and neared.
Near beer
Near beer is a term of common currency used to designate all that class of malt liquors which contain so little alcohol (usually less than <frac:1_2/ per cent) that they will not produce intoxication, though drunk to excess, and includes in its meaning all malt liquors which are not within the purview of the general prohibition law.
Neat
Wherein the herds[men] were keeping of their neat.
The steer, the heifer, and the calf Are all called neat.
A neat and a sheep of his own.
If you were to see her, you would wonder what poor body it was that was so surprisingly neat and clean.
nebule
O light without nebule.
Nebulosity
The nebulosity . . . of the mother idiom.
Necessary
Death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
A certain kind of temper is necessary to the pleasure and quiet of our minds.
Necessitate
Sickness [might] necessitate his removal from the court.
This fact necessitates a second line.
The Marquis of Newcastle, being pressed on both sides, was necessitated to draw all his army into York.
Necessitous
Necessitous heirs and penurious parents.
Necessitude
Between kings and their people, parents and their children, there is so great a necessitude, propriety, and intercourse of nature.
Necessity
Urge the necessity and state of times.
The extreme poverty and necessity his majesty was in.
These should be hours for necessities, Not for delights.
What was once to me Mere matter of the fancy, now has grown The vast necessity of heart and life.
So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
Neck
These words, “bread and cheese,” were their neck verse or shibboleth to distinguish them; all pronouncing “broad and cause,” being presently put to death.
necklaced
The hooded and the necklaced snake.
Necromancy
This palace standeth in the air, By necromancy placèd there.
Necromantic
With all the necromantics of their art.
Need
And the city had no need of the sun.
I have no need to beg.
Be governed by your needs, not by your fancy.
Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes.
Other creatures all day long Rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest.
When we have done it, we have done all that is in our power, and all that needs.
Needful
The needful time of trouble.
All things needful for defense abound.
Needless
Weeping into the needless stream.
Needment
Carrying each his needments.
Needs
A man must needs love mauger his head.
And he must needs go through Samaria.
He would needs know the cause of his repulse.
Needy
Thou shalt open thy hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy in thy land.
Spare the blushes of needy merit.
Corn to make your needy bread.
Ne'er-do-well
The idle and dissolute ne'er-do-wells of their communities.
Negation
Our assertions and negations should be yea and nay.
Negative
If thou wilt confess, Or else be impudently negative.
Denying me any power of a negative voice.
Something between an affirmative bow and a negative shake.
There in another way of denying Christ, . . . which is negative, when we do not acknowledge and confess him.
This is a known rule in divinity, that there is no command that runs in negatives but couches under it a positive duty.
No wine ne drank she, neither white nor red.
These eyes that never did nor never shall So much as frown on you.
If a kind without his kingdom be, in a civil sense, nothing, then . . . his negative is as good as nothing.
The omission or infrequency of such recitals does not negative the existence of miracles.
Negatively
I shall show what this image of God in man is, negatively, by showing wherein it does not consist, and positively, by showing wherein it does consist.
neginoth
To the chief musician on Neginoth.
Neglect
I hope My absence doth neglect no great designs.
This, my long suffering and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.
To tell thee sadly, shepherd, without blame, Or our neglect, we lost her as we came.
Age breeds neglect in all.
Rescue my poor remains from vile neglect.
Neglectful
A cold and neglectful countenance.
Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it.
Negligence
remarking his beauties, . . . I must also point out his negligences and defects.
Negligent
He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
Negligible
Within very negligible limits of error.
Negotiate
He that negotiates between God and man Is God's ambassador.
Constantinople had negotiated in the isles of the Archipelago . . . the most indispensable supplies.
The notes were not negotiated to them in the usual course of business or trade.
Negotiation
Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies.
An important negotiation with foreign powers.
Neigh
Neighed at his nakedness.
Neighbor
Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors.
Buckingham No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel.
Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves?
The gospel allows no such term as “stranger;” makes every man my neighbor.
Leisurely ascending hills that neighbor the shore.
A copse that neighbors by.
Neighborhood
Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
Neighborly
Judge if this be neighborly dealing.
Neither
Which of them shall I take? Both? one? or neither? Neither can be enjoyed, If both remain alive.
He neither loves, Nor either cares for him.
Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king.
Hadst thou been firm and fixed in thy dissent, Neither had I transgressed, nor thou with me.
When she put it on, she made me vow That I should neither sell, nor give, nor lose it.
Nemesis
This is that ancient doctrine of nemesis who keeps watch in the universe, and lets no offense go unchastised.
Nemorous
Paradise itself was but a kind of nemorous temple.
Neolithic
The Neolithic era includes the latter half of the “Stone age;” the human relics which belong to it are associated with the remains of animals not yet extinct. The kitchen middens of Denmark, the lake dwellings of Switzerland, and the stockaded islands, or “crannogs,” of the British Isles, belong to this era.
Neologic
A genteel neological dictionary.
Neoteric
Some being ancient, others neoterical.
Neoterize
Freely as we of the nineteenth century neoterize.
Nepenthe
Lulled with the sweet nepenthe of a court.
Quaff, O quaff this kind nepenthe.
Nephew
But if any widow have children or nephews [Rev. Ver. grandchildren].
If naturalists say true that nephews are often liker to their grandfathers than to their fathers.
Nepotic
The nepotic ambition of the ruling pontiff.
Nepotism
From nepotism Alexander V. was safe; for he was without kindred or relatives. But there was another perhaps more fatal nepotism, which turned the tide of popularity against him -- the nepotism of his order.
Nervation
The outlines of the fronds of ferns, and their nervation, are frail characters if employed alone for the determination of existing genera.
nerve
he led me on to mightiest deeds, Above the nerve of mortal arm.
nerveless
A kingless people for a nerveless state.
Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream.
Nervous
Poor, weak, nervous creatures.
Our aristocratic class does not firmly protest against the unfair treatment of Irish Catholics, because it is nervous about the land.
Nescience
God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine.
Nest
The birds of the air have nests.
A little cottage, like some poor man's nest.
The king of birds nested within his leaves.
From him who nested himself into the chief power.
Nestle
The kingfisher . . . nestles in hollow banks.
Their purpose was to fortify in some strong place of the wild country, and there nestle till succors came.
The children were nestled all snug in their beds While visions of sugarplums danced in their heads.
Net
A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet.
In the church's net there are fishes good or bad.
And now I am here, netted and in the toils.
Her breast all naked as net ivory.
Nether
'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires.
This darksome nether world her light Doth dim with horror and deformity.
All my nether shape thus grew transformed.
Nettle
The princes were so nettled at the scandal of this affront, that every man took it to himself.
Neuter
In all our undertakings God will be either our friend or our enemy; for Providence never stands neuter.
The world's no neuter; it will wound or save.
Neutral
The heart can not possibly remain neutral, but constantly takes part one way or the other.
Some things good, and some things ill, do seem, And neutral some, in her fantastic eye.
The neutral, as far as commerce extends, becomes a party in the war.
Neutrality
Men who possess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the interest of their fellow subjects.
Neutralize
So here I am neutralized again.
Counter citations that neutralize each other.
Neven
As oft I heard my lord them neven.
Never
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.
Whosoever has a friend to guide him, may carry his eyes in another man's head, and yet see never the worse.
And he answered him to never a word.
Ask me never so much dower and gift.
Nevermore
Where springtime of the Hesperides Begins, but endeth nevermore.
Nevertheless
No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness.
New
Steadfasty purposing to lead a new life.
Men after long emaciating diets, fat, and almost new.
New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace.
New from her sickness to that northern air.
Newfangle
So newfangel be they of their meat.
Newfangleness
Proud newfangleness in their apparel.
Newly
He rubbed it o'er with newly gathered mint.
And the refined mind doth newly fashion Into a fairer form.
News
Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
It is no news for the weak and poor to be a prey to the strong and rich.
There cometh a news thither with his horse.
Next
Her princely guest Was next her side; in order sat the rest.
Fear followed me so hard, that I fled the next way.
None could tell whose turn should be the next.
The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.
Nexus
Man is doubtless one by some subtile nexus . . . extending from the new-born infant to the superannuated dotard.
Nibble
Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep.
Instead of returning a full answer to my book, he manifestly falls a-nibbling at one single passage.
Nice
But say that we ben wise and nothing nice.
The letter was not nice, but full of charge Of dear import.
Curious not knowing, not exact but nice.
And to taste Think not I shall be nice.
Dear love, continue nice and chaste.
A nice and subtile happiness.
The difference is too nice Where ends the virtue, or begins the vice.
He's making a list, checking it twice. Gonna find out who's naughty or nice Santa Claus is coming to town.
Nicety
The miller smiled of her nicety.
The fineness and niceties of words.
Niche
Images defended from the injuries of the weather by niches of stone wherein they are placed.
Nick
To cut it off in the very nick.
This nick of time is the critical occasion for the gaining of a point.
And thence proceed to nicking sashes.
The itch of his affection should not then Have nicked his captainship.
Words nicking and resembling one another are applicable to different significations.
The just season of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved.
For Warbeck, as you nick him, came to me.
Nickname
You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke.
I altogether disclaim what has been nicknamed the doctrine of finality.
Nidificate
Where are the fishes which nidificated in trees?
Niding
He is worthy to be called a niding.
Niggard
A penurious niggard of his wealth.
Be niggards of advice on no pretense.
Niggardliness
Niggardliness is not good husbandry.
Niggardly
Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly.
Niggardous
Covetous gathering and niggardous keeping.
Niggle
Take heed, daughter, You niggle not with your conscience and religion.
Nigh
The loud tumult shows the battle nigh.
Ye . . . are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
He was sick, nigh unto death.
He drew not nigh unheard; the angel bright, Ere he drew nigh, his radiant visage turned.
Nighly
A cube and a sphere . . . nighly of the same bigness.
Night
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night.
She closed her eyes in everlasting night.
Do not go gentle into that good night Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
So help me God, as I have watched the night, Ay, night by night, in studying good for England.
What night rule now about this haunted grove?
Nigromancien
These false enchanters or nigromanciens.
Nill
Certes, said he, I nill thine offered grace.
The actions of the will are “velle” and “nolle,” to will and nill.
Nim
This canon it in his hand nam.
Nimble
Through the mid seas the nimble pinnace sails.
Nimiety
There is a nimiety, a too-muchness, in all Germans.
nincompoop
An old ninnyhammer, a dotard, a nincompoop, is the best language she can afford me.
Nip
May this hard earth cleave to the Nadir hell, Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat, If I be such a traitress.
The small shoots . . . must be nipped off.
And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip.
Nippitate
'T will make a cup of wine taste nippitate.
Nisus
A nisus or energizing towards a presented object.
Niter
For though thou wash thee with niter, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me.
Nix
The treacherous nixes who entice men to a watery death.
No
Let there be no strife . . . between me and thee.
That goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.
We do no otherwise than we are willed.
I am perplx'd and doubtful whether or no I dare accept this your congratulation.
There is none righteous, no, not one.
No! Nay, Heaven forbid.
No-man's land
That no-man's land of twilight.
Nobility
Though she hated Amphialus, yet the nobility of her courage prevailed over it.
They thought it great their sovereign to control, And named their pride nobility of soul.
I fell on the same argument of preferring virtue to nobility of blood and titles, in the story of Sigismunda.
Noble
Statues, with winding ivy crowned, belong To nobler poets for a nobler song.
Thou nobledest so far forth our nature.
Nobleness
His purposes are full honesty, nobleness, and integrity.
Nock
He took his arrow by the nock.
Nod
Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream.
By every wind that nods the mountain pine.
Like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down.
A look or a nod only ought to correct them [the children] when they do amiss.
Nations obey my word and wait my nod.
Noddle
Come, master, I have a project in my noddle.
For occasion . . . turneth a bald noddle, after she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken.
Noetic
I would employ the word noetic to express all those cognitions which originate in the mind itself.
Noise
The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived.
What noise have we had about transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood!
Socrates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages.
The king has his noise of gypsies.
All these sayings were noised abroad.
Noiseless
So noiseless would I live.
Nolition
A nolition and a direct enmity against the lust.
Nomadize
The Vogules nomadize chiefly about the Rivers Irtish, Obi, Kama, and Volga.
Nominal
A is the nominal of the sixth note in the natural diatonic scale.
Nominate
To nominate them all, it is impossible.
Is it so nominated in the bond?
Nomination
The nomination of persons to places being . . . a flower of his crown, he would reserve to himself.
Non obstante
In this very reign [Henry III.] the practice of dispensing with statutes by a non obstante was introduced.
Nonage
The human mind . . . was still in its nonage.
Nonce
The miller was a stout carl for the nones.
And that he calls for drink, I 'll have prepared him A chalice for the nonce.
None
There is none that doeth good; no, not one.
Six days ye shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none.
Terms of peace yet none Vouchsafed or sought.
None of their productions are extant.
Nones
At my supper and sometimes at nones.
nonextant
Its nonextant original was written on vellum
Nonplus
Both of them are a perfect nonplus and baffle to all human understanding.
He has been nonplused by Mr. Dry's desiring him to tell what it was that he endeavored to prove.
Nonrendition
The nonrendition of a service which is due.
Nonuser
An office may be forfeited by misuser or nonuser.
Nonvernacular
A nonvernacular expression.
Noodle
The chuckling grin of noodles.
Nook
How couldst thou find this dark, sequestered nook?
Nook-shotten
That nook-shotten isle of Albion.
Noon
In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.
Nor
Provide neither gold nor silver, nor brass, in your purses, nor scrip for your journey.
Where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt.
I love him not, nor fear him.
Where neither party is nor true, nor kind.
Simois nor Xanthus shall be wanting there.
Normal
Deviations from the normal type.
Nortelry
Nortelry . . . learned at the nunnery.
northmost
Northmost part of the coast of Mozambique.
Nose
We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master.
Lambs . . . nosing the mother's udder.
A sort of national convention, dubious in its nature . . . nosed Parliament in the very seat of its authority.
A train of cable cars came nosing along.
Nosel
If any man use the Scripture . . . to nosel thee in anything save in Christ, he is a false prophet.
Nostril
Methinks a man Of your sagacity and clear nostril should Have made another choice.
Nostrum
The incentives of agitators, the arts of impostors and the nostrums of quacks.
Not
Not one word spake he more than was need.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
The question is, may I do it, or may I not do it?
Notation
“Conscience” is a Latin word, and, according to the very notation of it, imports a double or joint knowledge.
Notch
And on the stick ten equal notches makes.
God is all sufferance; here he doth show No arrow notched, only a stringless bow.
Note
Whosoever appertain to the visible body of the church, they have also the notes of external profession.
She [the Anglican church] has the note of possession, the note of freedom from party titles,the note of life -- a tough life and a vigorous.
What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all !
The best writers have been perplexed with notes, and obscured with illustrations.
Here is now the smith's note for shoeing.
The wakeful bird . . . tunes her nocturnal note.
That note of revolt against the eighteenth century, which we detect in Goethe, was struck by Winckelmann.
Give orders to my servants that they take No note at all of our being absent hence.
The king . . . shall have note of this.
Small matters . . . continually in use and in note.
There was scarce a family of note which had not poured out its blood on the field or the scaffold.
No more of that; I have noted it well.
The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Every unguarded word . . . was noted down.
They were both noted of incontinency.
Noteless
Noteless as the race from which he sprung.
Nothing
Yet had his aspect nothing of severe.
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought.
'T is nothing, says the fool; but, says the friend, This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end.
Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed.
The influence of reason in producing our passions is nothing near so extensive as is commonly believed.
Notice
How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons!
I . . . have given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his duchess will be here.
This plant deserves to be noticed in this place.
Another circumstance was noticed in connection with the suggestion last discussed.
Noticeable
A noticeable man, with large gray eyes.
Notify
No law can bind till it be notified or promulged.
The President of the United States has notified the House of Representatives that he has approved and signed the act.
Notion
What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles.
Few agree in their notions about these words.
That notion of hunger, cold, sound, color, thought, wish, or fear which is in the mind, is called the “idea” of hunger, cold, etc.
Notion, again, signifies either the act of apprehending, signalizing, that is, the remarking or taking note of, the various notes, marks, or characters of an object which its qualities afford, or the result of that act.
The extravagant notion they entertain of themselves.
A perverse will easily collects together a system of notions to justify itself in its obliquity.
Notional
Discourses of speculative and notional things.
Notionally
Two faculties . . . notionally or really distinct.
Notoriety
They were not subjects in their own nature so exposed to public notoriety.
Notorious
Your goodness, Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious.
Notwithstanding
We gentil women bee Loth to displease any wight, Notwithstanding our great right.
Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous cures were so transported that their gratitude made them, notwithstanding his prohibition, proclaim the wonders he had done.
I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant. Notwithstanding, in thy days I will not do it.
They which honor the law as an image of the wisdom of God himself, are, notwithstanding, to know that the same had an end in Christ.
You did wisely and honestly too, notwithstanding She is the greatest beauty in the parish.
These days were ages to him, notwithstanding that he was basking in the smiles of the pretty Mary.
Nounal
Verbs which in whole or in part have shed their old nounal coat.
Nourish
He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
Whiles I in Ireland nourish a mighty band.
Ye have nourished your hearts.
Nourished up in the words of faith.
Grains and roots nourish more than their leaves.
Nourishment
Learn to seek the nourishment of their souls.
Noursle
She noursled him till years he raught.
Nouthe
But thereof needeth not to speak as nouthe.
Novation
I shall easily grant that novations in religion are a main cause of distempers in commonwealths.
Novel
Some came of curiosity to hear some novels.
Novelty
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
Novene
The triple and novene division ran throughout.
Novice
I am young; a novice in the trade.
No poore cloisterer, nor no novys.
Now
I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago.
They that but now, for honor and for plate, Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.
The ship was now in the midst of the sea.
How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of honor?
Why should he live, now nature bankrupt is?
Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was a robber.
The other great and undoing mischief which befalls men is, by their being misrepresented. Now, by calling evil good, a man is misrepresented to others in the way of slander.
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past; But an eternal now does ever last.
Nowadays
What men of spirit, nowadays, Come to give sober judgment of new plays?
Noway
But Ireland will noways allow that name unto it.
Nowise
Others whose case is nowise different.
Noxious
Too frequent an appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotions.
Those who are noxious in the eye of the law.
Noy
All that noyed his heavy spright.
Noyous
Watch the noyous night, and wait for joyous day.
Nucleus
It must contain within itself a nucleus of truth.
Nudity
There are no such licenses permitted in poetry any more than in painting, to design and color obscene nudities.
Nugatory
If all are pardoned, and pardoned as a mere act of clemency, the very substance of government is made nugatory.
Null
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection; no more.
Nullify
Such correspondence would at once nullify the conditions of the probationary system.
Nullity
Was it not absurd to say that the convention was supreme in the state, and yet a nullity?
Numb
For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand.
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
Number
Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers.
Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage.
Of whom came nations, tribes, people, and kindreds out of number.
I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.
If a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
He was numbered with the transgressors.
Thy tears can not number the dead.
Numeral
A long train of numeral progressions.
Numerary
A supernumerary canon, when he obtains a prebend, becomes a numerary canon.
Numeration
Numeration is but still the adding of one unit more, and giving to the whole a new name or sign.
Numeric
Would to God that all my fellow brethren, which with me bemoan the loss of their books, . . . might rejoice for the recovery thereof, though not the same numerical volumes.
Numerosity
The numerosity of the sentence pleased the ear.
Numerous
Such and so numerous was their chivalry.
Such prompt eloquence Flowed from their lips, in prose or numerous verse.
Numskull
They have talked like numskulls.
nun
They holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration.
Nuncupate
In whose presence did St. Peter nuncupate it?
Nundination
Common nundination of pardons.
Nuptial
Then, all in heat, They light the nuptial torch.
Celebration of that nuptial, which We two have sworn shall come.
Preparations . . . for the approaching nuptials.
Nur
I think I'm as hard as a nur, and as tough as whitleather.
Nuraghe
The so-called nuraghi, conical monuments with truncated summits, 30-60 ft. in height, 35-100 ft. in diameter at the base, constructed sometimes of hewn, and sometimes of unhewn blocks of stone without mortar. They are situated either on isolated eminences or on the slopes of the mountains, seldom on the plains, and usually occur in groups. They generally contain two (in some rare instances three) conically vaulted chambers, one above the other, and a spiral staircase constructed in the thick walls ascends to the upper stories.
Nurse
The nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise.
Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age.
Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore.
By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion?
Nursery
Christian families are the nurseries of the church on earth, as she is the nursery of the church in heaven.
Nursling
I was his nursling once, and choice delight.
Nurture
A man neither by nature nor by nurture wise.
He was nurtured where he had been born.
Nutation
So from the midmost the nutation spreads, Round and more round, o'er all the sea of heads.
Nutriment
The stomach returns what it has received, in strength and nutriment diffused into all parts of the body.
Is not virtue in mankind The nutriment that feeds the mind?
Nutrition
Fixed like a plant, on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
Nuzzle
The people had been nuzzled in idolatry.
And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine Sheathed, unaware, the tusk in his soft groin.
He charged through an army of lawyers, sometimes . . . nuzzling like an eel in the mud.
Sir Roger shook his ears, and nuzzled along.
nymph
Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas?
Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered.
Nympholepsy
The nympholepsy of some fond despair.