na-a-y

Updated: May 11, 2025

"Na-a-y," said old Martin, with an elongation of the word, meant to make it bitter as well as negative, while he leaned forward and looked down on the floor. "But the wench takes arter her mother. I'd hard work t' hould HER in, an' she married i' spite o' me a feller wi' on'y two head o' stock when there should ha' been ten on's farm she might well die o' th' inflammation afore she war thirty."

George Eliot - Adam Bede