"Na" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fearsome gangrel suld mak' sae free wi' Ba'weary manse; an' he ran the harder, an', wet shoon, ower the burn, an' up the walk; but the deil a black man was there to see. He stepped out upon the road, but there was naebody there; he gaed a' ower the gairden, but na, nae black man. At the hinder end, an' a bit feared, as was but natural, he lifted the hasp an' into the manse; an' there was Janet M'Clour before his een, wi' her thrawn craig, an' nane sae pleased to see him. An' he aye minded sinsyne, when first he set his een upon her, he ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... this, "Go," he accordingly desired She Yeh, "to our lady Secunda, and ask her for some. Tell her that I spoke to you about them. My cousin over there often uses some western plaster, which she applies to her temples when she's got a headache. It's called 'I-fo-na.' So try ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... putting his hand to his mouth as if to speak in my ear, "there is a poor man you will na' ...
— Adventures In Friendship • David Grayson
... differed from the fabliau, in being interspersed with musical interludes; but I suspect they were generally translations from the British. The word is said to be derived from leudus; but laoi seems to be the general name of a class of Irish metrical compositions, as "Laoi na Seilge" and others, quoted by Mr. Walker (Hist. Mem. of Irish Bards), and it may be doubted whether the word was not formerly common to the Welsh and ...
— The Lay of Marie • Matilda Betham
... punir enfin nos matres leur tour, Dieu fit choix de Cyrus avant qu'il vt le jour, L'appela par son nom, le promit la terre, Le fit natre, et soudain l'arma de son tonnerre, 1065 Brisa les fiers remparts et les portes d'airain, Mit des superbes rois la dpouille en sa main, De son temple dtruit vengea sur eux l'injure. Babylone paya nos pleurs avec usure. Cyrus, par lui vainqueur, publia ses bienfaits, 1070 Regarda ...
— Esther • Jean Racine
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