Do we say nay or neigh

nay 5953 occurrences

" "But wherefore not tear her from his arms and fly to some foreign land?" "Nay, my friend, we have two children, a son and daughter, for whose peace we must have a care.

nay, thou shalt Make her as soone contented with an [one?] eye.

'Twas beyond wonder; I shall never see, Nay, I never looke to see the like againe: Eighteen hundred and eight Crownes For severall victories, and the place set downe

Nay, in good faith, my Lord, I speake in earnest: I hate that headie and adventurous crew

Nay, nay, although the thing be full of feare.

Nay, nay, although the thing be full of feare.

Nay, Lucan, is he not thine Enemie?

Nay, what can you say for him, hath he not Broacht his owne wives (a chast wives) breast and torne With Scithian hands his Mothers bowels up?

I said that which pains you?I do not understand all this, but I confess there are secrets to which I can have no claim to be admitted" "Nay, Bob, this is making too much of what, after all, must sooner or later be spoken of openly among us.

At home his talk was entirely "Yea, yea," and "Nay, nay," and dealt principally with politics and the feminist movement, in which Abigail was deeply interested.

At home his talk was entirely "Yea, yea," and "Nay, nay," and dealt principally with politics and the feminist movement, in which Abigail was deeply interested.

Nay, I do not jest!

"A paltry hundred thousand? "Nay, without my hatmy helmet!I should be valueless to myself and everybody else; so estimate my worth and you can assay the value of my hat.

Nay, they account it the grace of their parts!

But this hinders not, that there may be more shining Characters in the Play; many persons of a second magnitude, nay, some so very near, so almost equal to the first, that greatness may be opposed to greatness: and all the persons be made considerable, not only by their Quality, but their Action.

King Leodogran rejoiced, But musing 'Shall I answer yea or nay?' Doubted, and drowsed, nodded and slept, and saw, Dreaming a slope of land that ever grew, Field after field, up to a height, the peak Haze-hidden, and thereon a phantom king, Now looming, and now lost; and on the slope

Nay, nay, nay.

Nay, nay, nay.

Nay, nay, nay.

Nay, gentlemen, the honesty of mirth Consists not in carousing with excess; My father hath more welcomes than in wine.

Nay, for her forswear all other women.

nay, you are my master; Is my wife's sheets warm?

Nay, pray you keep your seat, for you shall hear The same affliction you have taught me fear, Due to yourself.

Though everything said in the text be infallibly true, yet the reader may be, nay, cannot choose but be, very fallible in the understanding of it.

"Nay," said the maid, "if you are thirsty, get down yourself, and lie down by the water and drink; I shall not be your waiting-maid any longer."

neigh 104 occurrences

He immediately began to neigh, and slipped his halter.

As they sat about the blaze after breakfast, laying out plans for the day, the sound of a horse's neigh startled them.

From the shed came the neigh of Maggie, calling softly to him.

Under the impact of that descending bulk the stallion crouched almost to the earth, but he came up again with a snort and a strangled neigh of rage.

A faint neigh floated down wind.

With a wild neigh of terror and pain the animal leaped to one side, carrying away a section of rotten fence.

At the same instant, the horses in the stable began to neigh furiously, whilst the cattle lowed as if choking.

V. boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, Puff, show off, flourish, crake^, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor; blague^, blow, four-flush [Slang], bluff. exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph; throw up one's cap; talk big, se faire valoir

the neigh of my horse answered me from the hill, mocking me in my despair.

There he halted, and, flinging back his tossed mane, uttered a shrill neigh.

" The Knight-mare gave a loud triumphant neigh.

the striderous neigh!

As the horse of Darius was the first to neigh, Darius was proclaimed king.

And that true griffin's neigh, The damsel from the window spied Her lady borne away.

In response to the neigh of Greenleaf's steed Hilary's had paused an instant and turned his head, but now followed on again, while the laughter ended in the clapping of a hundred hands; for Kincaid's horse had the bridle free on his neck and was following his master as a dog follows.

I gave a long, shrill neigh for help.

Just as we were passing out of sight the poor creatures neighed pitifully after us, and one who has never heard the last despairing, pleading neigh of a horse left to die can form no idea of its almost human appeal.

Oh, I have heard them talk and talk, drinking o' nights in the gun-room, and the escort's horses stamping at the porch with a man to each horse, to hold the poor brutes' noses lest they should neigh and wake the woods.

" Sweeny looked discomfited; the next breath he bethought himself of a saving joke: "Liftinint, it 'ud sarve erry won av 'em right;" then another neigh of laughter.

" At this moment a loud neigh was heard from the stable across the yard.

He never once glanced back at the farm-house, but the mare several times bent her neck around and emitted a doleful neigh, as if complaining because her good days were now over.

Again, all the horses and donkeys neigh; for the bray of a donkey is only a harsher neigh, pitched on a different key, it is true, but a sound of the same characteras the donkey himself is but a clumsy and dwarfish horse.

Again, all the horses and donkeys neigh; for the bray of a donkey is only a harsher neigh, pitched on a different key, it is true, but a sound of the same characteras the donkey himself is but a clumsy and dwarfish horse.

From the very heart of the burning barn the sharp single whistle burst and over the rolling smoke and spring fire rose the answering neigh.

After that neigh and whistle, a quiet fell over the group at the barn door.

Do we say   nay   or  neigh