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Example sentences for "nor did"

  • But of this our hero said nothing to anyone, nor did he tell a single living soul what he had seen that night, but nursed it in his own mind, where it lay so big for a while that he could think of little or nothing else for days after.

  • Nor did Mr. Chillingsworth seem to think very highly of his appearance, for he sat looking sideways at Tom as he smoked.

  • Nor did he see her any more, except from a distance, she standing on the poop deck as he was rowed away from her, her face all stained with crying.

  • Nor did he open his eyes again, but lay there gathering his wits together and wondering thus until the bandage was properly tied about his head and sewed together.

  • And so, after a good deal of argument, our hero was constrained to go; nor did he even have an opportunity to bid adieu to his inamorata.

  • It did not occur to me then, nor did it for some time afterwards, that it was wholly a mental state.

  • I was both a burthen and a terror to myself; nor did I ever so know, as now, what it was to be weary of my life, and yet afraid to die.

  • It had been remarked that this personage evinced no weariness in his place of concealment; nor did he, long as his waiting was.

  • Nor did he, so far as the child could learn; but was her quiet companion in all her walks and musings, and never again adverted to the theme, which he felt had given her pain, although he was unconscious of its cause.

  • What they were warring about Billy knew not, nor did he care.

  • Nor did he blame Barbara because she loved Bridge.

  • How Theriere was to accomplish the subjugation of the mutinous sailor he could not guess, nor did he care so long as it was done without risk to his own skin.

  • Alexander enjoyed, during thirty days, the edifying spectacle of their repentance; nor did he restore them to their former rank in the army, till he had punished with death those tribunes whose connivance had occasioned the mutiny.

  • Like the adopted son of Cæsar, he was distinguished as a statesman rather than as a warrior; nor did either of those princes employ force, whenever their purpose could be effected by policy.

  • In the time of Homer, the vine grew wild in the island of Sicily, and most probably in the adjacent continent; but it was not improved by the skill, nor did it afford a liquor grateful to the taste, of the savage inhabitants.

  • Nor did he again allude to the deficiency in the course of the evening.

  • Nor did he allow his mind to lie fallow, for he gave his evenings diligently to self-culture, studying and digesting Blackstone, Montesquieu, and solid commentaries on English law.

  • When a task was set him, he never left it until he had mastered it; nor did he ever feign to possess knowledge which he had not entirely acquired.

  • He possessed in an extraordinary degree the power of continuous intellectual labour, nor did he spare himself.

  • He sat stooping humbly forward and behaved with much good nature, as became a man of no account, nor did he seem to notice the anxious deference with which he was treated.

  • He could not share her with others, nor did he understand her imbecile caprices.

  • Nor did it shelter Madame, whose skirts were wringing wet.

  • His energy subsided, but he still stayed on the floor, nor did he relax his hold of her as he said in a broken voice: "Do at least listen to what I came to offer you.

  • Nor did it fail in its effect upon Turan as they conducted him the length of the chamber, where he waited before great doors until he should be summoned into the presence of the ruler of Manator.

  • Of the number, the kind, or the disposition of her captors he knew nothing; nor did he care--for Tara of Helium he would face a hostile world alone.

  • His genius was less powerful and sublime than that of Caesar; nor did he possess the consummate prudence of Augustus.

  • Hauskuld answered, "I did not slay thy son, nor did I plot his death; still it may be forgiven thee to look for atonement somewhere.

  • Hauskuld answered, "I did not slay thy brother, nor did my daughter plot his death; but as soon as ever Hrut knew it he slew Thiostolf.

  • He answered him never a word, nor did he take the axe before he was dead.

  • His genius was less powerful and sublime than that of Cæsar; nor did he possess the consummate prudence of Augustus.

  • Nor did I call this time from the top of the companion-way.

  • Nor did I ever have a headache except the time my head was healing after having been laid open for six inches by a capstan-bar.

  • Nor did I for an instant take my eyes off him.

  • No reference was made on either side to the destruction of the shears; nor did he say anything further about my leaving his ship alone.

  • I did not inquire why he had not been ashore, nor did he ask why I had not come aboard.

  • Yet I never dreamed of cities; nor did a house ever occur in any of my dreams.

  • Nor did I ever see one of the Fire People so large as he, nor one of the Tree People.

  • But I did not go in any particular direction, nor did I travel steadily.

  • Nor did I change my mind as I watched him tow up a second log from farther down the shore.

  • But all that day she came not: nor did I marvel thereat.

  • Lightened in mind by this charitable and agreeable occupation, he returned to his studies with a fixed resolution, nor did he again falter in his purpose.

  • When at length he arrived at the gate, Ling desired his tablets to be carried to the Mandarin with many expressions of an impressive and engaging nature, nor did he neglect to reward the porter.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    abandon the; allowing them; correct knowledge; dear granny; domesticated animals; little hand; nor any; nor had; nor his; nor inclined their ear; nor will; nor would; nor yet; normal life; normal state; north and; north latitude; north side; northeast monsoon; northeast trade; northerly direction; northern hemisphere; northern latitude; quarter after; time when; wire entanglements