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Example sentences for "nary"

Lexicographically close words:
naru; narus; narves; narwhal; narwhals; nas; nasal; nasals; nasce; nascent
  1. The old lady har keeps nary a thing, but we can get the raal stuff close by.

  2. Howsumdever, thar's nary a thing I wouldn't do for you--you knows that.

  3. Oh yas; nary one but darkies war round, and dey wouldn't hole him.

  4. Haint got nary a fip o' change," she said, as she took it.

  5. I didn't rescue that scalawag because I had any Christian sentiments, nary bit.

  6. Nary a word could I git from him, till I began ter get savage.

  7. And nary a hoss in sight," exclaimed Steve.

  8. I've knowed a man fall heavier and farther by far than that, and have nary a scratch ter show fer it.

  9. We've killed seven of 'em, and the others won't dare to go back to their wigwams with sich a tale, and with nary a scalp to show.

  10. Nary mind the half-hearted lot," said Noah Webster, at this juncture putting his spoke in the wheel.

  11. Give 'em goss, an' let nary a one go back to tell the story!

  12. Nary a soul shall look upon it, I guess, till that thar b'y opens it hisself.

  13. Nary a bit, strangers," was the answer, and the two men laughed heartily.

  14. No stone heads, and no Phantom Mountains--nary a one.

  15. We’re bound to obey orders, but don’t ask nary one of us to come here agin.

  16. I know nary one of ’em hain’t dead,’ replied Sanders.

  17. They ain't nary a one of 'em would gorm up their paws on a job like that for you, Lanpher," Alicran stated in no uncertain tones.

  18. You seem to keep forgettin' you ain't got any ropes on me--nary a rope.

  19. I went out of the shop with my ord'nary 'ead, conscious of the fact that I had made a poor impression on the hatter.

  20. Now your 'ead is what you may call an ord'nary 'ead.

  21. He don't know that there's such things as privateers afloat, and he ain't seen nary cruiser to warn him.

  22. Nary freshening," replied the mate, with a hasty glance around the horizon.

  23. Sure, how kin a Frinchman expect to bate us whin nary ground-hog nor baver, the aither av thim, is theer in his counthry to tache him how to work wid earth an' timber?

  24. The tide of life ag'in flows onward to the eternal sea, an' nary ripple.

  25. You go down there to the penitentiary and count those prisoners and I'll bet you don't find nary one that don't know how to read and write.

  26. I'd just be a bawlin' too I'm tellin' you but he never hit me nary a lick.

  27. He'll buttonhole you by the hour, Boardman, and palaver and make his soft speeches; but nary a word does he say to me if he can help it.

  28. Now it looks like a young man wants all the women and ain't satisfied with nary one.

  29. Still they has been times when I ain't had nary a cent an' couldn't get my hands on a dime, but I is made it out somehow.

  30. The slaves didn't get nary thing give 'em in the way of land nor stock.

  31. Ain't nary one there that had ought to be there; nary one but the help.

  32. There ain't nary one to come and live with me.

  33. Me and Thorpe sent a couple of shots after them, that scattered the devils for a minute; but we hadn't hit nary one, because it was too dark yet to draw a bead on them.

  34. He stated that this was the first time since his return from New Mexico that he had allowed himself to drink whiskey, and when the whiskey was in him he had 'nary sense.

  35. Den de time gwo by fur a yar or two, but master neber git nary dime out ob Cale fur his half.

  36. Nary an inch, mister," responded one of the men.

  37. Nary flour, nary anything for trade, stranger, but I'll give you a sack o' the best flapjack flour that ever came out a store.

  38. But it wouldn't nary lil' darky would go near that stud-horse but me.

  39. De boys jes sits and looks at me and dey don't say nary a word, dey jes looks at me.

  40. I've seen seven camps in a string, wi' maybe a thousand men in each an' nary a woman in the lot!

  41. He's seen women come in with nary one o' their men-folk left alive.

  42. The flakes o' metal stays put, an' shows nary a sign o' tarnishin'.

  43. But in a boom camp that white folks have given up an' quit, if Johnny Chink comes in, he won't let nary a white come back.

  44. And I maintain They's nary drap in ary vein O' mine but what's as free as air To jest take issue with you there--!


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.