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Example sentences for "nor would"

  • And though many informed him of the deception, he could not give credit to them, nor would he endure the conversation of any who seemed to doubt the integrity of Niccolo's professions.

  • He himself had not fled, nor would he fly if it were all to come over again.

  • Michael Mont, "I wish my gov'nor would move on.

  • His sagacity knew this, but it knew too that he could not stop that beating, nor would if he could.

  • There was no longer the same feeling that to lose a minute would be fatal, nor would he now risk communicating the fact of his wife's flight to anyone till the inquest was over.

  • Trent applied to his stepfather, but to no purpose; the attorney utterly disowned him, nor would he suffer him to come a second time within his doors.

  • Nor would it be any relinquishing of duty to you, should my father leave you to take up arms in the assertion of his country's rights.

  • Nay, nor would it be politic for one who holds his possessions in England by the right of conquest to question the virtue of the deed.

  • Nor would I require it of you," returned Wallace; "these brave Welsh and Irish were brought hither by the invader who subjugates their countries; they owe him no duty.

  • Nor would it have been possible, unless I had had the police to assist me.

  • That nothing would be done or said in the presence of Grace Crawley was a matter of course, nor would she do or say anything to get rid of Grace.

  • He had not condescended to say a word as to his son, nor would he so condescend.

  • He would not eat, nor would he even sit at table or say the accustomed grace when the scanty mid-day meal was placed upon the table.

  • Nor would it do, he thought, for him to be absent in the excitement caused by the news of Mr Crawley's innocence and injuries.

  • Disturbances from foreign enemies he quelled by his lieutenants, without ever going against them in person; nor would he even employ his lieutenants, but with much reluctance, and when it was absolutely necessary.

  • Of one person who had made a vow for his recovery to combat with a gladiator, he exacted its performance; nor would he allow him to desist until he came off conqueror, and after many entreaties.

  • Nor would he allow any women to witness the combats of gladiators, except from the upper part of the theatre, although they formerly used to take their places promiscuously with the rest of the spectators.

  • We would not have him thought to be better than he was, nor would we wish him to make him of other stuff than nature generally uses.

  • He could make no answer, nor would he sit there to hear tidings as to Mr Gresham's embarrassments.

  • To transcribe all the passages which have led me to the conclusion at which I have arrived, would be impossible, nor would it be easy to make a better selection than has already been made by Mr. Hallam.

  • He was not what he had been; nor would it be just to consider the change which his views had undergone as the effect merely of selfish ambition.

  • Nor would it be safe, in our time, to tolerate in any regiment religious meetings, at which a corporal versed in Scripture should lead the devotions of his less gifted colonel, and admonish a backsliding major.

  • It is not improbable that some ancient Gentile author, read by Josephus, so thought; nor would he here contradict him; though just before, and Antiq.

  • Nor would I there recide, To put my Father in impatient thoughts By being in his eye.

  • One of the Queen's delights was the improvement of the garden at Richmond; and the King believed she paid for all with her own money-nor would he ever look at her intended plans, saying he did not care how she flung away her own revenue.

  • I will say no more on this subject, because it is not a pleasant one; nor would I have said this, but to convince you that I did not mention returning to Florence out of gaiet`e de coeur.

  • He had already nodded last night, when his wife had said the gov'nor would take it hard.

  • Nor would it be out of place, were any one to say that the name Sabbath was given to this feast from the agitation and excitement [Greek omitted] which the priests of Bacchus display.

  • His costume was not that to which Morton had been accustomed in Germany, nor would it have passed without notice in Bond Street.

  • It would be quite useless to appeal from her stepmother to her father; nor would such an appeal come within the scope of her own principles.

  • He at present did not think it wise to say another word to Mary about the young man; nor would Mrs. Masters condescend to do so.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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