24 examples of nill in sentences

Aen. ii, 724] Will he nill he, all that happens in heaven he needs must see.

Sylla nill brook[102], that in so many wars, So hard adventures and so strange extremes, Hath borne the palm and prize of victory, Thus with dishonour to give up his charge.

Brute beasts nill break the mutual law of love, And birds affection will not violate:

Ladies, I grant; for Marius nill deny A suit so easy and of such import; For pity 'twere that dames of constancy Should not be agents of their misery.

[102] "Sylla nill brook" is "Sylla ne will, or will not brook.

My happiness is so much more than my share, that I shall insist, will ye, nill ye, on your sharing it with me.

Will ye or nill ye, zounds!

My countess (God be with her) was a shrow, As women be, your majesty doth know; And some odd pick-thank put it in her head, All was not well: but such a life I led, And the poor keeper and his smooth-fac'd wife, That, will I, nill I, there she might not bide.

But for the main of that I have to tell, It chanced thusLate in a rainy night, A crew of gallants came unto my house, And (will I, nill I) would forsooth be lodg'd.

The nature of our countrymen is such, That, if we see another kiss our wives, We cannot brook it: but I will be pleas'd; For, will I, nill I, so methinks I must.

F 3: "Can by no meanes bee brought to remember this new friend, yet will hee, nill he, to the taverne he sweares to have him.

Giue me leaue; heere lies the water; good: heere stands the man; good: If the man goe to this water and drowne himsele; it is will he nill he, he goes; marke you that?

V. be unwilling &c adj.; nill; dislike &c 867; grudge, begrudge; not be able to find it in one's heart to, not have the stomach to. demur, stick at, scruple, stickle; hang fire, run rusty; recoil, shrink, swerve; hesitate &c 605; avoid &c 623. oppose &c 708; dissent &c 489; refuse &c 764.

V. refuse, reject, deny, decline, turn down; nill, negative; refuse one's assent, withhold one's assent; shake the head; close the hand, close the purse; grudge, begrudge, be slow to, hang fire; pass (at cards).

But will we, or nill we, make the worst of it, and suppose a man in the greatest extremity, 'tis a fortune which some indefinitely prefer before prosperity; of two extremes it is the best.

" Such should conjugal love be, still the same, and as they are one flesh, so should they be of one mind, as in an aristocratical government, one consent, Geyron-like, coalescere in unum, have one heart in two bodies, will and nill the same.

For that is the law of love, to will and nill the same.

Nolentes sciunt, fatentur inviti, as the said Tyrius proceeds, will or nill, they must acknowledge it.

So cunning was the apparatus, The powerful pothooks did so move him, That will-he, nill-he, to the great house He went as if the devil drove him.

Between one and the other however, he was got into a scrape, and now he supposed he must marry, will he, nill he.

Will I, nill I, I may never from my neck his yoke unloose.

It is uncommon low, is a trial, and' Sir George halted so abruptly that will-he, nill-he, the other went on a few paces.

Mr. Dunborough, who was of the party will-he, nill-he, and asked nothing better than to take out in churlishness the pressure put upon him, stood firmly to it, he would take no more than one person to the men.

We must be masters, here, Captain Ludlow, will-ye-nill-ye, and look to the main chances of trade and manufactures!"

24 examples of  nill  in sentences