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Example sentences for "nor can"

  • So Fate will have it, and Jove adds his force; Nor can my pow'r divert their happy course.

  • He bade me say it might have served to recompense a mere fleeting fancy, but that it is unworthy of your charms, nor can he insult you by the offer of it.

  • But even then I could not do other than hate de Garcia, no, nor can I to this hour, and after all it was natural that I should desire vengeance on the murderer of my mother though the wreaking of it had best been left in another Hand.

  • Where his forefathers went, thither he has followed, nor can he return to us.

  • I cannot break my faith with Guatemoc, nor can I live to see you shamed and tortured.

  • Nor can it be said that the soldiers only partook of the government by their disobedience and rebellions.

  • The motives of action or silence are now equally balanced; nor can I pronounce, in my most secret thoughts, on which side the scale will preponderate.

  • The further Christianity advanced, the more causes purely human were enlisted in its favor; nor can it be doubted that those developed with such artful exclusiveness by Gibbon did concur most essentially to its establishment.

  • The labour of man neither does, nor can, produce vital capital; all that it can do is to modify, favourably or unfavourably, the conditions of its production.

  • Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be.

  • This voluntary martyrdom must have gradually destroyed the sensibility both of the mind and body; nor can it be presumed that the fanatics, who torment themselves, are susceptible of any lively affection for the rest of mankind.

  • Nor can you, if I am true, excite me to the least uneasiness by saying, 'He acted and thou sittest still.

  • Everywhere he may take what belongs to his spiritual estate, nor can he take any thing else though all doors were open, nor can all the force of men hinder him from taking so much.

  • No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it.

  • God are unchangeable, nor can he repent of conferring his gifts.

  • Who only hath immortality and inhabiteth light inaccessible: whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and empire everlasting.

  • The author of this poem is unknown, nor can I, on the vague and rather doubtful allusion to Thule, as Iceland, venture to assign its date.

  • Nor can it be forgotten that it was in these days Catholic Belgium gave to the world the great Flemish school of artists, amongst whom must be reckoned such men as Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens.

  • The importance of the subject both in itself and in the circumstances of the time cannot be exaggerated, nor can it be contended that the Fathers at Trent failed to realise their responsibilities or to give it the attention it deserved.

  • Nor can it be contended for a moment that from this mistake any solid argument can be drawn against the infallibility of the Pope.

  • Nor can I understand why Gretser, and the other papal advocates, should be displeased with this new instance of apostolic jurisdiction.

  • Nor can I here pass over an ominous circumstance that happened the last time we played together: I only wanted to fling a quatre, and yet I threw deuce ace five times running.

  • And this, but not the increasing punishments, is the way to mend a state: nor can I avoid even questioning the validity of that right which social combinations have assumed of capitally punishing offences of a slight nature.

  • To him that lives well," answered the hermit, "every form of life is good; nor can I give any other rule for choice than to remove all apparent evil.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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