Do we say knows or noes

knows 12978 occurrences

And if Colin goes into the diplomatic service Goodness knows where he'll be sent to.

I don't know how he knows.

Nobody knows till they've tried.

It's all rot his saying you didn't hit it off with her, when everybody knows you were a perfect angel to her.

She knows it's your body, not you.

She knows you were splendid.

'God only knows,' said he.

"He has credentials which he knows will free him if he is forced to present them, but I imagine they were given to him more for protection in an emergency like this than for introducing him to our government.

"There is only one person living who knows the name and position of all of you," and by a sweep of his hand he indicated the motionless figure of the woman.

"No one knows better what you have done than the gentlemen here at this table," the president went on slowly.

No one knows the inventor more intimately than I, and even I couldn't get it from him.

(The Bonnie Lassie, who knows everything, is my authority for the statement.)

But I said, 'That's just where you slip up, Hiram; a pow'ful man like the Colonel knows everythingand I've seen it in his eye.'

All sorts of a splendid fellow, and knows everybody.

Even if she accepts me, it will be to the advantage of your cousin, because if he still hopes to obtain her, the sooner he knows he cannot do so, the better it will be for him.

Nobody knows how dey come dar, no more'n how dey eber manage to git out.

His whole thought is for Ireland, and he knows that his advice is that of a true friend to heras well as to the wretched man himself....

Oh! you cannot think how well he knows Freddy.

" "The first thing that strikes the reader of the advertisement is, that this Surgery is established exclusively 'for the treatment of negroes; and, if he knows little of the hearts of slaveholders towards their slaves, he charitably supposes, that they 'feel the dint of pity,' for the poor sufferers and have founded this institution as a special charity for their relief.

No man who knows the feeling of slave holders towards slaves will be at a loss for the reason.

" Horse-racing too, as every body knows, is a favorite amusement of slaveholders.

Every reference to them points solely to the element of personality; and thus, by the strongest implication, declares that the constitution knows them only as "persons," and will not recognize them in any other light.

We repeat it, every man knows that slavery is a curse.

Now, every body knows that the slaveholders do these things to the slaves every day, and yet it is stoutly affirmed that they treat them well and kindly, and that their tender regard for their slaves restrains the masters from inflicting cruelties upon them.

In all Russian houses, as, doubtless, everybody knows, the first floor is given up to an antechambre, where guests remove their wraps and goloshes, and behind this room are the kitchen and servants' quarters.

noes 52 occurrences

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it allHE knowsHE knows!

In 1895 the men of Utah, where as a Territory women had voted seventeen years, by a vote of 28,618 ayes to 2,687 noes, gave them this right in its constitution for Statehood.

The Bill was carried; on a division none being found among the Noes but the two tellers.

Does anyone know?" There was a general shaking of heads and a chorus of "Noes.

On the question whether they should treat in union with the Scots, the Commons divided sixty-four against sixty-four: but the noes obtained the casting vote of the speaker.

The hour of one o'clock P.M. having arrived and the general business of the town being now in order, the following named persons were elected, by ayes and noes, overseers of highways for the ensuing year in the following road districts, viz.: (here give the numbers of the road districts and the names of the persons elected overseers thereof.)

On motion of H.S.H.H., the following by-law was adopted, ayes , noes : "It is hereby ordered and determined that it shall be lawful for horses, mules and asses to run at large in the town of , in the day time, from the first day of April to the 15th day of October, in each year, until further ordered.

No longer apparently can you deal in 'russet yeas and honest kersey noes'; gone for ever is simplicity, which is as beautiful as the divine plain face of Lamb's Miss Kelly.

One great "Ay" was then uttered by the mass, and a few "Noes" were heard.

The reply was a chorus of "Noes" with emphatic head-shakings.

On taking the vote, the amendment was rejectedayes 22, noes not counted.

The noes had it.

We are aware of the strong prejudice which exists against the practice of parishes sending off annually, a part of their surplus population to America; but some of the statements in these letters will stagger the Noes.

On the test vote the ayes were 55 and the noes 46.

The noes were all from the South except one from New Hampshire, ten from New York, and one from Pennsylvania.

The North gave 31 ayes and 36 noes, quite evenly distributed among the states.

"[30] Concurrence was carried, nevertheless, by a vote of 63 to 49, in which the North cast 51 ayes to 12 noes, and the South 12 ayes to 37 noes.

"[30] Concurrence was carried, nevertheless, by a vote of 63 to 49, in which the North cast 51 ayes to 12 noes, and the South 12 ayes to 37 noes.

The Northern noes were five from New York, two each from New Hampshire and Vermont, and one each from Massachusetts, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.

"Ayes" or "Noes" is the hurried answer; and he stalks through the lobby to discharge this intelligent function, dives down to his room again, only, if the House is in Committee, to be dragged up again ten minutes afterwards for another repetition of the same farce, and so on indefinitely.

In the House of Commons, the members vote by Ayes and Noes, altogether: but if it be doubtful which is the greater number, the House divides.

If the question be whether any bill, petition, &c. is to be brought into the House, then the Ayes, or approvers of the same, go out; but, if it be upon anything which the House is once possessed of, the Noes go out.

This being done, the two tellers who have the majority take the right hand, and all four placing themselves within the bar, make three reverences as they advance towards the table, where they deliver the written numbers, saying, 'the Ayes that went out are so many: the Noes who remain are so many:' and vice versa as it may happen.

"In a committee of the whole House, the way of dividing is by changing sides, the Ayes taking the right, and the Noes taking the left hand of the Speaker's chair.

While I, in the uselessness of my round, white youth, sit benched among the old women, dropping spiritless, pointless "yeses" and "noes" among the veteran worldliness of their talk, how they crowd about her, like swarmed bees on some honeyed, spring day!

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