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Gradman wrote the figure "2" on his blotting-paper. "Ye-es," he said; "there's a nahsty spirit." "The ordinary restraint against anticipation doesn't meet the case." "Nao," said Gradman. "Suppose those Labour fellows come in, or worse! It's these people with fixed ideas who are the danger. Look at Ireland!" "Ah!" said Gradman.
"Nao ha, sinto que nao posso lhe ser bom"; or, "Nao ha, men coracao we have none; I am sorry I cannot oblige you"; or, "There is none, my heart." Sept. 3rd to 7th. At half-past eight a.m. we arrived at Baiao, which is built on a very high bank, and contains about 400 inhabitants.
It is a time since I first saw Mr. Timothy!" "We can't live for ever," said Soames, taking down his hat. "Nao," said Gradman; "but it'll be a pity the last of the old family! Shall I take up the matter of that nuisance in Old Compton Street? Those organs they're nahsty things." "Do. I must call for Miss Fleur and catch the four o'clock. Good-day, Gradman." "Good-day, Mr. Soames.
That was the tone of it, and at the end of every line she sang, the crowd joined in with the refrain. 'Nao calls. Nao calls. "Of course they became worked up. She handled them pretty much the same as a skillful speaker does things at a political meeting or an evangelist at a revival. The same spirit was there. Instead of a flag, there was the tribal pole.
Here we lay for some hours beside the enormous black hulk of the Rainha Nao, a man-of-war, which in old times so captivated the eye of Nelson, that he would fain have procured it for his native country. She was, long subsequently, the admiral's ship of the Miguelite squadron, and had been captured by the gallant Napier about three years previous to the time of which I am speaking.
Honigmann's invention of the fireless working of steam engines by means of a solution of hydrate of soda NaO HO in water is not quite two years old, and has in that time progressed so steadily towards practical success that it is reasonable to expect its application before long in many cases of locomotion where the chimney is felt to be a nuisance.
The commander was instructed to endeavour to follow the western coast of Africa, to the southward of Cape Chaunar, called by the Portuguese mariners Cape Nao, Non, or Nam, which, extending itself from the foot of Mount Atlas, had hitherto been the non plus ultra or impassable limit of European navigation, and had accordingly received its ordinary name from a negative term in the Portuguese language, as implying that there was no navigation beyond; and respecting which a proverbial saying was then current, of the following import: Whoe'er would pass the Cape of Non Shall turn again; or else be gone.
The Rainha Nao is said to have caused him more trouble than all the other vessels of the enemy; and some assert that, had the others defended themselves with half the fury which the old vixen queen displayed, the result of the battle which decided the fate of Portugal would have been widely different.
We say know, English people say nao; we say cow, the Briton says kaow; we " "Oh, come! that is pure Yankee; everybody knows that." "Yes, it is pure Yankee; that is true. One cannot hear it in America outside of the little corner called New England, which is Yankee land. The English themselves planted it there, two hundred and fifty years ago, and there it remains; it has never spread.
She sang: 'Nao calls for the useless. "Then the rest of them would shout 'Nao calls. Nao calls. "There was a terrible lot of it. The main purport was that this Nao was the ruling devil or god of the place. It called for the sacrifice of the useless. Many men were needed so that the one should be born who would lead the Tlingas to victory.
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