100 Metaphors for nays

Nay, according to all Christian advocates, they are God's test of our moral temper.

Nay, their indeauour keepes in the wonted pace; But there is Sir an ayrie of Children, little Yases, that crye out on the top of question; and are most tyrannically clap't for't: these are now the fashion, and so be-ratled the common Stages (so they call them) that many wearing Rapiers, are affraide of Goose-quils, and dare scarse come thither.

Nay, friends, this moment My Duchy her dear hand restores to me To me's a dream.

Nay, to this day there is one point in our cathedral which, to me, keeps up the illusion still.

Nay, flame not outI am a poor weak-minded creature in some things: but where what I should be, or not deserve to live, if I am not is in the question, I have a great and invincible spirit, or my own conceit betrays melet us resolve to quit every regard for each other that is more than civil.

Nay, of so much importance was this beautiful art, and to such perfection was it brought at a time when a lady's petticoat, embroidered by the hand, with its profuse imitations of natural objects, flowers, and birds, and strange devices, would often cost twenty pounds Scots, that a sight of one of those operose achievements of genius would make us blush for our time and the labours of our women.

Nay, the very power they have usurped, has often been the chief instrument of turning their heads, inflaming their passions, corrupting their hearts.

"Nay, if a man recommends a boy and does nothing for him, it is sad work."

Nay, so deep and expansive was the feeling, that British subjects in foreign lands had their representation.

Nay, that's your rich man's plaster too, and covers the multitude of sins.

Nay, and he be lame, ile talke to him; there's so many lustie knaves walkes now a daies will not sticke to give a man hard words, if he be not disposed to charitie.

Nay, mine is woe: Woe to none other given, And the song and the crown therefor! HEC.

Nay, so great is the difference, that one might almost suppose them inhabitants of different worlds.

Nay, the young working-girl is even "her own worst competitorthe competitor against her own future home, and as wife and mother she may have to live on the wage she herself has cheapened.

Nay, as it is not common for ministers to keep the best part of their conduct secret, there is reason for suspecting that they were not altogether without foundation reported to have favoured France.

Nay, what have we to do with such, thou and Ithis is our wedding night, and yetI feel as if this nightI were leading theeto thydeath.

Nay, material prosperity is often the mark of real decline, when it either results in, or is connected with, a moral stagnation in the devoted attachment to principles.

Nay, he who produces some really great thought is conscious of his connection with coming generations at the very moment he conceives it; so that he feels the extension of his existence through centuries and thus lives with posterity as well as for it.

Nay, here is my purse, ye may find for yourselves the truth of what I say."

Nay, more, there were wonderful possibilities when the present crisis in her life, whatever it might be, should have passed.

Nay, verily, he is a 'gentleman of property and standing,' one of the wealthiest planters and largest slaveholders in Florida.

Nay, here's my hand, I will do very much For thee, if e'er thou stand'st in need of me; Thou shalt not lack, whilst thou hast a day to live, Money, apparel COOMES.

Nay, is not the very thought a contradiction?

Nay, sir, your handie worke, for you were the cause of his drowning.

Nay, a long continued disguise is too great a constraint upon human nature, especially an English disposition; men would leave off their vices out of mere weariness, rather than undergo the toil and hazard, and perhaps expense, of practising them perpetually in private.

100 Metaphors for  nays