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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.
Dear me! 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.
"They die each time," said the interpreters, as the canoemen, with loud shouts of "Vai ou nao Vai? Vai sempre! Vai direito, ya mondele!" and "Arister," a mariner's word, after failing to force the way, tumbled overboard, with a hawser of lliana to act as tow-line.
Fine old Chinese jars, and other curiosities, are often to be found in Mexico; and they date from the time when the great galleon from Manila, which was called "el nao" the ship to distinguish it from all other ships, came once a year to Acapulco. After breakfast, business hours begin; so we took ourselves off to visit the canal of Chalco, and the famous floating gardens as they are called.
An officer left the group and returned with what Captain Swarth knew was a chart, which a few of them studied, while their captain hailed again: "See anything more of that pirate brig the other day?" "What! a pirate? Be 'e a pirate?" answered Captain Swarth, in agitated tones. "Be that you a-chasin' of 'im? Nao, hi seed nothink of 'im arter the fog shut 'im out."
Tarling took the paper and stared. Written in thick black ink were four Chinese characters, "tzu chao fan nao" "He brought this trouble upon himself." The two men looked at one another in silence. "Well?" said the Commissioner at last. Tarling shook his head. "That's amazing," he said, and looked at the little slip of paper between his finger and thumb.
Matthew seems to indicate, Judas disappeared from the scene long before the end of the trial, this is strongly against the theory of De Quincey, according to which he must have stayed to the last moment, hoping to see Jesus assert Himself. En to nao. St. Matthew knows best the beginning, St. Luke the end of the story.
We argued this point at some length; nobody won; but no matter, the fact remains Englishmen say nao and kaow for "know" and "cow," and that is what the rustic inhabitant of a very small section of America does. "You conferred your 'a' upon New England, too, and there it remains; it has not traveled out of the narrow limits of those six little states in all these two hundred and fifty years.
If I did not he would say I was making love to the chief's wives." "Por Deus! That may be all the barred house holds the wives of the chief," guessed Lourenço. "Why waste time and risk death to look into that place?" "Quem nao arrisca nao ganha, as the coronel would say he who risks nothing gains nothing. I feel that we should visit that house. Something calls me back to it."
But" those voices of the singing sailors were beginning almost to obsess her "are all the boatmen Nubians then?" "Nao!" he replied, with a sudden cockney accent. "But these that are singing?" "I say they are Noobian peoples, my lady. They are Mahmoud Baroudi's Noobian peoples." "Baroudi's sailors!" said Mrs. Armine. She sat up straight in her chair. "But Mahmoud Baroudi isn't here, at Luxor?"
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