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Example sentences for "nor even"

  • It might have a greater money value than a thousand men, yet death was never the penalty, nor maiming, nor branding, nor even stripes.

  • As the Strangers could not own the soil, nor even houses, except within walled towns, most of them would choose to attach themselves permanently to Israelitish families.

  • It might have a greater money value than a thousand men, yet death was not the penalty, nor maiming, nor branding, nor even stripes, but double of the same kind.

  • This one will be passed by a small majority who have not imagination enough to read the works of future historians, nor even to grasp public opinion as unexpressed by their constituents.

  • I want no more memoirs and letters and biographies, nor even of the history that is shut up in calf-skin.

  • She could not follow the opera nor even listen to the music; she saw only the painted cardboard and the queerly dressed men and women who moved, spoke, and sang so strangely in that brilliant light.

  • Such a storm of feelings, thoughts, and memories suddenly arose within him that he could not fall asleep, nor even remain in one place, but had to jump up and pace the room with rapid steps.

  • We had never met till now, nor even heard of one another; at least he had never heard of me.

  • During the rather perilous ascent Max and Fario noticed that no damage to the embankment, nor even trace of the passage of the barrow, could be seen.

  • His round, flat face excited no sympathy, nor even a laugh on the lips of those who might be examining the varieties of the Parisian species; on the contrary, it saddened them.

  • She does not do harm for harm's sake, nor even directly to gratify spite, greed, or other purely unsocial and detestable passions.

  • And if he did fall, she knew herself well enough to be aware that she could not stifle, nor even conceal, the misery which this would occasion her.

  • Oh dear no;--nor even that he meant to give her anything.

  • The attribute is inherent in the race, and is not to be eliminated by so simple a means as selection, nor even by a selection on the ground of hereditary percentages.

  • Some authors assume that cultivation itself might have been the principal cause of variability, but it is not proved, nor even probable, that cultivated plants are intrinsically more variable than their wild prototypes.

  • Not on all the heads, nor even on the majority of the heads on some individuals, but on some heads all gave clear proof of the possession of the new attribute.

  • I did not see any gardens, nor even a single tree within the walls; and the immediate neighbourhood is entirely destitute of verdure, which renders a residence here as melancholy as in any other city of Arabia.

  • Amicus tried to get the Gentleman's Magazine exempted from the general condemnation, but Smith would not hear of that, and said that for his part he never looked at a Review, nor even at the names of the publishers.

  • Nor even at the present day has the original prestige of the Sperm Whale, as fearfully distinguished from all other species of the leviathan, died out of the minds of the whalemen as a body.

  • Nor even down to so late a time as Cuvier's, were these or almost similar impressions effaced.

  • No year, nor even century, will settle this.

  • A man is not greatest as victor in war, nor inventor or explorer, nor even in science, or in his intellectual or artistic capacity, or exemplar in some vast benevolence.

  • In this place it may be as well to reveal the end of this ill-fated and unsuitable courtship, which never had my sanction, nor even toleration.

  • But no one at the hotel could remember what was the gentleman's name, nor even if he were announced by any name.

  • Probably not one in the crowd had ever read a word written by Pierre Firmin, nor even heard of the name.

  • The one, the son of the object of my tenderest love, will have neither father nor family, nor even a name, since a law framed to make lovers unhappy prevents my acknowledging him.

  • He had not cried out, nor threatened, nor cursed justice, nor even spoken of a fatal error.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nor even" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both from; good sized; green door; night fell; nor any; nor could; nor had; nor have; nor his; nor yet; normal children; normal salt; normal school; normal space; normal state; north latitude; northeast monsoon; northern hemisphere; northern latitude; northern waters; once told; peculiar species; quite natural; save his; snow fell; would soon