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Examples of nay

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Eventually, he voted against the administration's bill, only one of eight "nays" cast by a nonsouthern senator.
Legislators could choose from three choices, yea, abstention, and nay.
Nor is there any man so independent on his farm that he can say them nay ' ' (94).
The question is whether all of this is to be regretted, nay lamented.
Of the 479 total speeches, 204 were from senators voting yea and 272 from senators voting nay (with one senator abstaining).
One o' mi papers has a weekly column about people nay longer i' t'news.
The consequence was that there was one more "nay" vote cast during the latter roll-call, implying a gain for direct election opponents.
Of the nays, 86 per cent relied on statements and 14 per cent on printed material.
Using the common reduction of note-values to one eighth, we nay say that the perfect long equals a dotted minim in a 3/4 measure.
The main, third chapter, which comprises some 120 pages, presents a detailed survey of techniques used by the nay- kah-n- authors.
But such nay-saying would not solve the problems we will face.
They pressed him to stay but a month, nay, only to defend them on the first day.
It is notable that the first person singular possessive nay is absent from the data.
This book restores a sense of the man as private, nay secretive - modest, shy, retiring: and the frugal simplicity behind the gaudy gallimaufry.
We men are determined - nay, are we not pledged?
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