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Example sentences for "nor yet"

  • Neither here nor in the Phaedrus or Symposium, nor yet in the Philebus or Sophist, does he give any clear explanation of his meaning.

  • Nor yet by reason of a knowledge which cultivates the earth; that would give the city the name of agricultural?

  • They cannot diminish, because they cannot be destroyed; nor yet increase, for the increase of the immortal must come from something mortal, and so all would end in immortality.

  • Nor yet the smith hath learned to form a sword.

  • Instantly she got together what forces she disposed of, and proceeded to fling her artillery into the Arno, to the end that she should be constrained neither to refuse it to Cesare upon his demand, nor yet to deliver it.

  • On that suspicion he kept them prisoners for the present, nor did be release them when the treaty was signed, nor yet when, amid public rejoicings expressing the relief of the Bolognese, it was published on May 2.

  • That folk have no care for ploughing with oxen or for any planting of honey-sweet fruit; nor yet do they pasture flocks in the dewy meadow.

  • He at that time persuaded Hypsipyle to receive the new-comers as the day was waning into darkness; nor yet at dawn did they loose the ship's hawsers to the breath of the north wind.

  • As yet all the stars that wheel in the heaven were not, nor yet, though one should inquire, could aught be heard of the sacred race of the Danai.

  • Now there lay in the sand, avoiding the midday heat, a dread serpent, too sluggish of his own will to strike at an unwilling foe, nor yet would he dart full face at one that would shrink back.

  • They do not plow with a sharpened stick, nor yet with a three-cornered block of wood that merely scratches the top of the ground.

  • Some of the houses are not of stone, nor yet of bricks; I solemnly swear they are made of wood.

  • Nor yet is it a bargain about purely material things.

  • Nor yet--as every one who recognises that we live in a world which conducts itself by generalisations will see--does it abrogate the disqualification of belonging to an inferior intellectual caste.

  • Nor yet have we to consider whether quite intimate and purely intellectual association on an equal footing between a particular man and a selected woman may or may not be possible.

  • I do not wish to put him in the ranks, nor yet to give him a commission, to which those who have already served long are better entitled and better qualified to hold.

  • Nor can I understand how doing so is bad faith and dishonor, nor yet how it so exposes Kentucky to ruin.

  • Thanks to the great Northwest for it; nor yet wholly to them.

  • I can tell her how to plant a field of wheat or how to run a foal;--but I can't sit and read poetry, nor yet be read to.

  • I don't want Mr. Twentyman to teach me what is proper for my family,--nor yet to teach you your business.

  • Larry, don't you be a coward,--nor yet soft.

  • His modesty, perhaps, did not hinder him in an affair of sheep or bullocks, nor yet in the collection of his debts; but at the club he understood his position, and rarely opened his mouth to speak.

  • No better, nor yet no worse than that, sir," said the attorney who did not in the least know what feudalism was.

  • I moan na for my meat, Nor yet for my fee, But I mourn for Christened land-- It's there I fain would be.

  • I will not yield to a braken-bush, Nor yet will I yield to a brier; But I would yield to Earl Douglas, Or Sir Hugh the Montgomery, if he were here.

  • It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o Paradise That birk grew fair eneugh.

  • Nor yet I couldn't tell why, more than that Teddy'll be mad to hear she's been wid him.

  • She threw herself upon her humble bed, not thinking of Grace, nor yet of the Asylum, but revelling in her newborn joy.

  • It is strange that in her fits of violence she never speaks of me, nor yet of Charlie Hudson.

  • For, the matter lieth not so much in the disposition of them that be yong, as in the order & maner of bringing vp, by them that be old, nor yet in the difference of learnyng and pastime.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    commonly understood; conversation with; else they; feet above the river; give attention; much against; nor can; nor could; nor did; nor does; nor had; nor his; nor shall; nor should; nor was; nor would; nor yet; normal condition; normal school; normal times; north and; northern waters; northwest passage; plain words; rebel against; what remains