Neither Sentence Examples

Neither of them had a clue what was on her mind.

Neither of the children seemed concerned about the flight, though.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

Neither do I - and we should.

By the way, neither Alex nor I drink.

Neither of them was looking for a mate.

He heard neither the clock nor the birds.

It was neither good nor bad in her mind back then - it simply was.

Neither Howie nor I really know him.

All this was doing neither of them any good.

Now neither is true.

Lisa watched the two of them, sensing that there was something neither of them wanted to mention.

The problem is, you neither asked nor listened.

No, and neither Quinn nor Martha are picking up their phones.

All of which was neither here nor there.

Surely she must feel bitter about that fact, and yet neither her voice nor her expression gave any indication that she felt animosity.

Neither of those things would matter when dealing with Xander.

Neither did she, but she wasn't claiming that they were hers, either.

I'm sure neither Quinn nor Martha is surprised and Howie is probably asleep.

Neither of them believed her father would let him live.

Both the countess and Sonya understood that, naturally, neither Moscow nor the burning of Moscow nor anything else could seem of importance to Natasha.

Neither of them had been in high spirits yesterday.

Evidently she could speak of Russia's misfortunes with a certain artificiality, but her brother was too near her heart and she neither could nor would speak lightly of him.

Several minutes stretched into ten or more with neither of us closing our eyes.

To one of these houses which had neither doors nor windows, but only one broad opening far up underneath the roof, the prisoners were brought by their captors.

You toil not, neither do you spin, yet God takes care of you and your little ones.

That was the end of the conversation and neither of them brought the subject up again that night.

You are neither of them.

No, neither death nor anything else can destroy it.

She was making it day to day telling herself neither of those things was true.

Who would have thought he would become attached to a child that was neither his own blood nor male?

Still, neither of them could afford to move out right now, so their relationship would have to remain a secret.

Neither of us mentioned her conversations with Quinn, or the lack thereof.

There was neither a message nor, I realized, success with our endeavor.

Neither of those two ever did anything alone.

As soon as the men of the various regiments began to disperse among the wealthy and deserted houses, the army was lost forever and there came into being something nondescript, neither citizens nor soldiers but what are known as marauders.

Neither Fred nor Cynthia had a ready answer.

Neither living nor dead.

Neither the hand nor a single muscle of the count's face stirred.

But this is a monster and neither a man nor a father!

Neither. I'm worried about Claire.

Neither was disappointed when they lapsed into silence for the last leg of the trip.

Neither finished his beverage; Fred because he was anxious to get going and Dean because he could only take a small dose of the perfumed blend.

Neither said much before calling it a day.

Neither of us has ever done this before.

Neither could I do without them.

Neither in his presence nor out of it did they weep, nor did they ever talk to one another about him.

Howie was a total wreck and I'm sure neither Quinn nor I was much better.

He knew neither her name nor anything about her.

Something neither of us does well.

A'Ran had long suspected the two favored each other, but neither had addressed him about it.

Things a man battling for his planet neither had time for nor needed.

But neither they nor a single commanding officer were there, only disorganized crowds of troops of various kinds.

When neither responded, she returned to a safe subject.

While he didn't want to hold back important information, neither did he wish to unduly upset the nervous woman any further.

They were quiet for a sometime but could sense from each other's movements that neither was asleep.

Neither spoke until the lights of Montrose glowed through the snow.

Communicating love in a way neither had ever experienced, they converged in an esoteric dance in which the world fell away.

Neither Alex nor children were the key to happiness - she was.

Neither did the two Aspirin.

He liked neither the labour itself nor its object.

None of these charts is graduated, and the horizontal and vertical lines which cross many of them represent neither parallels nor meridians.

Higher up stood some Russian infantry, neither moving forward to protect the battery nor backward with the fleeing crowd.

They looked at one another (now that the hunt was over and they were in the house, Nicholas no longer considered it necessary to show his manly superiority over his sister), Natasha gave him a wink, and neither refrained long from bursting into a peal of ringing laughter even before they had a pretext ready to account for it.

The realization struck Cynthia, too, and as neither had slept particularly well, both plodded through the early morning chores with few words passing between them.

Neither Deidre ever understood that.

Neither worked, so Evelyn let her talk and hugged her hard.

It did not translate, and neither did it sound like it could be anything else.

Neither. It must be some movie I saw on TV or a book I read a long time ago.

Edith stood there, neither following her son, nor making any move to enter further into the room.

But, to Dean, neither did a 10mm line, all that bound the scampering gnats they could see peppering the icy walls of the gorge.

Neither spoke for more than an hour, until the ranch and stable were in sight and Dean's watch reminded them of reality.

Neither did I. The jerk managed to do that himself.

Neither mentioned the late night phone call during Edith's nocturnal visit nor Cynthia's sudden, unannounced return.

However, neither entirely believed the pronouncement.

Neither one of them had any place or anybody to turn to.

Neither of them could bear to say the word vampire.

He knew he could do neither, so gently took her hand.

Neither slept very well that night, and Dean was awake before the alarm, up fixing the morn­ing coffee.

Nothing, unless you count a tire patch kit and a half a receipt for $59.95, neither of which probably even belonged to Byrne.

Neither her son nor her brother will stand by him.

Neither Britain nor Spain can be called "small islands off the north-west of Spain."

A gas has neither size nor shape.

Neither the length of the word nor the combination of letters seems to make any difference to the child.

From the looks on the glum faces before me, he had neither told them anything nor was there success in their search for the killer.

Neither mate can have someone else on the side.

Neither was willing to bargain with me for your life.

His tone was neither harsh nor teasing.

He was neither ancient nor ugly, with familiar dark eyes and hair and roughly hewn features.

No matter what happened from here on out, neither Darkyn nor Gabriel would ever let them live after this.

Neither was sure what to say.

Neither baseball nor football was available at the small Ouray High School.

Neither Gladys nor Edith emerged from their quarters.

Neither said a word as the hall clock began striking midnight.

It was as if they were one person, clinging to each other - neither wanting to be the first to end the embrace.

As soon as the plane left the runways they were enveloped in clouds, and neither ground nor sky visible during the entire one-hour flight to Baltimore.

They neither manufactured nor possessed any chattels beyond such articles of clothing, weapons, ornaments and utensils as they might carry on their persons, or in the family store-bag for daily use.

The views of neither of these systematizers pleased Temminck, who in 1817 replied rather sharply to Vieillot in some Observations sur la classification methodique des oiseaux, a pamphlet published at Amsterdam, and prefixed to the second edition m i nd.

Neither does he refer in any way to the famous cave in which, according to the Ignatian myth, the Spiritual Exercises were written.

Though the fact of his authorship of the "Alice" books was well known, he invariably stated, when occasion called for such a pronouncement, that "Mr Dodgson neither claimed nor acknowledged any connexion with the books not published under his name."

On the fundamental question, however, of the psychophysical connexion and the derivation of mind from matter, his utterances are neither clear nor consistent.

The eighth and largest group, which in its enormous numbers was to the others as ninety-nine to one, consisted of men who desired neither peace nor war, neither an advance nor a defensive camp at the Drissa or anywhere else, neither Barclay nor the Emperor, neither Pfuel nor Bennigsen, but only the one most essential thing--as much advantage and pleasure for themselves as possible.

Neither he nor she said a word about what "Natasha nursing him" might mean, but thanks to this letter Nicholas suddenly became almost as intimate with the princess as if they were relations.

They neither saw nor heard anything, and after negotiating the remaining correctly marked turns, were in sight of daylight.

Aside from Larkin, there was only an elderly clerk who neither looked up nor spoke.

Neither tried to explain their answers.

Neither, he decided, was his past.

For that sake, neither was he.

Neither spoke to her, only stood quietly while their warriors remained in the hallway behind them.

Winter mountain driving was not for the reckless or faint of heart, but the Deans were neither.

While Fred, and to a lesser extent Cynthia, had solved cryptograms in the newspaper, neither were particularly adept at it.

They searched the entire house, all the obvious places like the trash cans and counter tops, but found neither the letter nor the envelope.

They ended up in the living room, watching a baseball game in which neither had a lick of interest.

You know neither is true.

Neither Memon nor Sirian would take her kingdom!

And neither am I.

Yeah, neither did he.

Dr Ginsburg had one predecessor in the field, the learned Jacob ben Chajim, who in 1524-1525 published the second Rabbinic Bible, containing what has ever since been known as the Massorah; but neither were the materials available nor was criticism sufficiently advanced for a complete edition.

There are Turkish primary and secondary schools in some of the towns; in the village mosques instruction in the Koran is given by the imams, but neither reading nor writing is taught.

There is now neither inlet nor outlet to the lake in this direction, the mouth of the Ghazal having become a fertile millet field.

It does not burn, neither does it support combustion.

It should be noticed, however, that this energy is possessed by the system consisting of the earth and pound together, in virtue of their separation, and that neither could do work without the other to attract it.

Neither of them seemed to recognize anything as important except pitch and amplitude, and Reis thought the amplitude was to some extent obtained by the varying length of contact in the transmitting instrument.

The celebrated expression certaminis gaudia assuredly came at first neither from the suave minister Cassiodorus nor from the small-souled notary Jordanes, but is the translation of some thought which first found utterance through the lips of a Gothic minstrel.

Neither faction was strong enough in both houses to carry out its own programme, and it seemed for a time that nothing would be done.

Neither the lion nor the tiger is found.

One of these, Summa de assumpto homine, is of a theological character, dealing with the humanity of Christ; the other, Summa de matrimonio, is a legal argument, to the effect that the essential fact in marriage is neither, as Gratian maintains, the copula, nor, as Peter Lombard, consent by verba de praesenti, but mutual traditio.

Neither by geometrical, nor physical, nor metaphysical principles had he succeeded in reaching and grasping the infinite and the spiritual, or in elucidating their relation to man and man's organism, though he had caught glimpses of facts and methods which he thought only required confirmation and development.

That one of the earlier dates is correct seems probable from the fact that the Falashas know nothing of either the Babylonian or Jerusalem Talmud, make no use of phylacteries (tefillin), and observe neither the feast of Purim nor the dedication of the temple.

Here again his moderation pleased neither party.

For a commentary on this see the opening of the Babylonian account referred to above, which refers to the period of chaos as one in which there were neither reeds nor trees, and where " the lands altogether were sea."

A duel ensued at Putney Heath on Sunday, the 27th of May 1798; but neither combatant was injured.

In the following sections the Lebanon proper will alone be considered, without reference to Anti-Lebanon, because the peculiar political status of the former range since 1864 has effectually differentiated it; whereas the Anti-Lebanon still forms an integral part of the Ottoman province of Syria (q.v.), and neither its population nor its history is readily distinguishable from those of the surrounding districts.

It consists of exclusive " ecclesias," with neither ministry nor organization.

It was a Confederate failure, but not a Union victory, and, each side being weakened by about io,000 men, neither made any movements for the next three weeks.

But neither the king's character, nor the confusion of the Prussian finances due to his extravagance, gave promise of any effective action.

It may be noticed that the potassium zinc cyanide is useless in gold extraction, for it neither dissolves gold nor can potassium cyanide be regenerated from it.

At Rome and Carthage, and in all other places where sincere Montanists were found, they were confronted by the imposing edifice of the Catholic Church, and they had neither the courage nor the inclination to undermine her sacred foundations.

He was neither a philosopher nor a literary genius.

Some of the roots and branches were examined by Captain Samuel Turner during his journey to Tibet; but the plant being neither in blossom nor bearing fruit, it was impossible to decide whether it was the true cinnamon or an inferior kind of cassia.

The description of the islanders in Acts as " barbaroi " confirms the testimony of Diodorus Siculus that they were Phoenicians, neither hellenized nor romanized.

Neither the boy nor the girl spoke again for some minutes.

You plotted against me, you lied to Prince Andrew about my relations with that Frenchwoman and made me quarrel with him, but you see I need neither her nor you!

Neither in Moscow nor anywhere in Russia did anything resembling an insurrection ever occur when the enemy entered a town.

Please just know I bear neither of you ill will, despite the outcome.

Neither wanted to retrace their steps to investigate.

Neither of them lawyers had a problem with me either.

But neither one of us gave a flying fish.

Ginger had—maybe is still having—an affair with her husband's brother, and if she isn't sleeping with their attorney it isn't because neither isn't trying.

He kept an eye out for Billy Langstrom, whom he still hoped to talk to, but he spotted neither him nor Pumpkin Green in the crowd.

But neither seriously considered contacting the law, especially because the law was Acting Sheriff Fitzgerald.

Lydia Larkin had led Dean in with neither exchanging a word.

Instead he would lay there beside her, neither touching her nor giving any indication that he knew she was there.

Neither was more guilty than the other.

With her, money was neither an advantage nor a handicap.

Neither of them found any trace of what Darkyn sought.

Neither of us has a choice about being together.

Deidre bolted, neither aware nor concerned where she went or where she ended up.

None of his dealers reported one missing, which left two options, neither of them good.

Despite being brothers, neither approved of what the other did.

And neither was Kris.

He'd eaten neither lunch nor din­ner.

It was a sub­dued meal with neither mentioning the prior evening's conversa­tion.

The ad didn't say and neither would Gruber's wife.

Neither believed her cheery pronouncement.

Neither do I. Where was it postmarked?

Fred said he'd check the maps and list all the Burlington locations he could find but neither was sure what that information would tell them.

Neither can I but I'm not going to bitch about it!

Neither of the customers nor the bartender had so much as noticed him leave his seat.

Neither Dean nor Fred volunteered any information on why they were in Willoughby's or that the fracas was anything but a mugging.

And I ain't staying in no skimpy little tent neither.

Only two communities separated Cortez and Durango; Mancos and Hesperus, and neither were memo­rable.

She looked neither surprised nor pleased to see him.

Neither Lori nor Alex would have considered it inappropriate to have relations – as long as they weren't engaged to anyone at the time.

After Dad died, there was neither time nor emotional strength for a pet.

Of course, it wasn't native to North America, but neither were her goats.

Intimacy was neither the sole purpose nor the end result of their relationship.

They didn't go to the room upstairs and neither of them mentioned it.

Neither of their lives had been easy.

Neither of those things are possible, Guardian.

If Darian tracked Others here, she tracked Jonny, and neither was there … they'd gone somewhere together.

But neither has his choice changed.

When she neither rejected nor attacked him, he lay down beside her and wrapped an arm around her, holding her tightly against him.

He'd always loved the teal waters that were neither too warm nor too cool.

That left her with two allies, neither of which was within half a day's ride.

Tiyan didn't need her or the demon, and neither would Taran.

She had been protected from outside influence – partly by having no television and partly by the fact that neither of her parents worked away from the home.

Neither boy had ever been deprived of anything they actually needed.

Certainly neither had been taught to misrepresent for their own profit.

That display gave them neither.

Neither of them had been being true to themselves.

I know goats aren't native to the United States, but neither are Longhorns.

Exactly. This is something neither of us should feel pressured into.

Neither sect was supposed to interfere in mortal affairs, a fact they selectively ignored.

Neither was the woman who was from last Friday, or the Tuesday before.

She was dressed in leggings and a snug T-shirt, neither of which left much to the imagination.

He was surprised that he felt neither.

The room held neither.

Neither of these attempts is practicable.

And the nature of this reality again can neither be consistently represented as a fixed and hard substance nor as an unalterable something, but only as a fixed order of recurrence of continually changing events or impressions.

This conception, according to Lotze, is neither necessary nor thoroughly intelligible.

On the following day the festival of the unity of Italy was celebrated, but neither this nor the previous meeting had any practical result.

When the stress came, and he retreated to the British legation, he took an active part in the defence, and spared neither risk nor toil in his exertions.

Here her character was shaped; here she imbibed that passionate love of country scenes and country life which neither absence, politics nor dissipation could uproot; here she learnt to understand the ways and thoughts of the peasants, and laid up that rich store of scenes and characters which a marvellously retentive memory enabled her to draw upon at will.

Her husband, though he afterwards deteriorated, seems at that time to have been neither better nor worse than the Berrichon squires around him, and the first years of her married life, during which her son Maurice and her daughter Solange were born, except for lovers' quarrels, were passed in peace and quietness, though signs were not wanting of the coming storm.

Neither can by will deprive the other of the right of dower or courtesy in the real estate and of the right to one-third of the personal estate.

The Book abounds in hypercriticism, particularly in the imputation of profanity; and in a useless display of learning, neither intrinsically valuable nor conducive to the argument.

Neither the tunny nor the coral fishery is carried on by the Sardinians themselves, who are not sailors by nature; the former is in the hands of Genoese and the latter of Neapolitans.

In neither of these cases have the subsidiary buildings been fully traced out.

Accordingly the quantity of movement in the universe, like its mover, can neither increase nor diminish.

Neither Hegelianism nor Aristotelianism is "vital" enough to sound the depths of religious life.

This university was founded in 1621 and the university of Buenos Aires in 1821, but although Bonpland and some other European scientists were members of the faculty of Buenos Aires in its early years, neither there nor at Cordoba was any marked attention given to the natural sciences until President Sarmiento (official term, 1868-1874) initiated scientific instruction at the university of Cordoba under the eminent German naturalist, Dr Hermann Burmeister (1807-1892), and founded the National Observatory at Cordoba and placed it under the direction of ' There are two distinct statistical offices compiling immigration returns and their totals do not agree, owing in part to the traffic between Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

His term of office is six years, and neither he nor the vice-president is eligible for the next presidential term.

Uriburu was neither a politician nor a statesman, but had spent the greater portion of his life abroad in the diplomatic service.

This fluctuation finds a parallel in the age at which the Levites were to serve; for neither has any reasonable explanation been found on the traditional view.

Albertus Magnus argued that the soul is immortal, as ex se ipsa causa, and as independent of the body; Pietro Pomponazzi maintained that the soul's immortality could be neither proved nor disproved by any natural reasons.

While their neighbours, the Malays, Papuans and Polynesians, all cultivate the soil, and build substantial huts and houses, the Australian natives do neither.

Unlike the American Indians, who supposed Columbus and his crew to be supernatural beings, and their ships in some way endowed with life, and were thrown into convulsions of terror by the first discharge of firearms which they witnessed, these Australians were neither excited to wonder by the ship nor overawed by the superior number and unknown weapons of the strangers.

Bills imposing taxation or appropriating revenue must not originate in the Senate, and neither taxation bills nor bills appropriating revenue for the annual service of the government may be amended in the Senate, but the Senate may return such bills to the House of Representatives with a request for their amendment.

Thus, 1 - x would represent the operation of selecting all things in the world except horned things, that is, all not horned things, and (1 - x) (1 - y) would give us all things neither horned nor sheep. By the use of such symbols propositions could be reduced to the form of equations, and the syllogistic conclusion from two premises was obtained by eliminating the middle term according to ordinary algebraic rules.

But Charles, though a brave soldier and good military organizer, was neither a capable statesman nor a skilful general.

Philip received them courteously, but took care that neither of them should return home.

They neither plant nor have they any manufactures except their rude bamboo and rattan vessels, the fish and game traps which they set with much skill, and the bows, blow-pipes and bamboo spears with which they and the produce of their hunting and fishing.

The plaintiff must have resided in the state for at least the year preceding the application, and if the cause accrued in some other state or country before the parties lived together in Vermont and while neither party lived there, the plaintiff must have been a resident at least for two years preceding the action.

It is a more remarkable fact that, in spite of his prominence, neither Henry VIII.

Every operation in which mind and matter are both concerned is an effect of neither, but the direct act of God.

His moderate and trimming attitude was understood neither by the extreme Independents nor by the Presbyterians.

To Algernon Sidney, who refused to take part in proceedings on the plea that neither the king nor any man could be tried by such a court, Cromwell replied, "I tell you, v e will cut off his head with the crown upon it."

Religious toleration was granted, but with the important exception that some harsh measures were enacted against Anglicans and Roman Catholics, to neither of whom was liberty of worship accorded.

He had neither the patience nor the tact for managing loquacious parliamentary pedants.

Neither here nor elsewhere are cilia found at any period of development.

If a debtor had neither money nor crop, the creditor must not refuse goods.

The service which the government and the colonies desire is one which neither the Eastern Telegraph Company nor any other private enterprise is prepared to undertake on terms which can be considered in comparison with the terms upon which it can be provided by the associated governments."

Neither attachment nor even habit impresses him; never tame, though not wide-awake enough to be exactly wild."

But neither the pope nor the Venetians would hear of such a transfer, and the negotiations on this subject greatly embittered Matthias against the Curia.

Thus the Lombards neither occupied the extremities nor subjugated the brain-centre of the country.

But it neither raised the prestige of the papacy, nor could it satisfy the Italians, who rightly regarded the Roman see as theirs.

Lombardy was, roughly speaking, divided between two parties, the one headed by Pavia professing loyalty to the empire, the other headed by Milan ready to oppose its claims. The municipal animosities of the last quarter of a century gave substance to these factions; yet neither the imperial nor, the anti-imperial party had any real community of interest with Frederick.

Yet neither the acts by which their league was ratified nor the terms negotiated for them by their patron Alexander evince the smallest desire of what we now understand as national independence.

This arrangement pleased King of neither of the relatives of the emperor; but his will Naples, now was law on the continent.

Although Cairoli, upon learning of the Anglo-Ottoman convention in regard to Cyprus, had advised Count Corti of the possibility that Great Britain might seek to placate France by conniving at a French occupation of Tunisia, neither he nor Count Corti had any inkling of the verbal arrangement made between.

It became clear that neither the influence of the regular clergy, of which the Society of Jesus is the most powerful embodiment, nor that of foreign clerical parties, which largely control the Peters Pence fund, would ever permit renunciation of the papal claim to temporal power.

The news caused the most widespread sensation, and public opinion in Italy was greatly agitated at what it regarded as an act of brigandage on the part of Austria, when Signor Tittoni in a speech at Carate Brianza (October 6th) declared that Italy might await events with serenity, and that these could find her neither unprepared nor isolated.

Both were convinced that the old order must change; neither saw clearly what the new order should be to which it was to give place.

And yet perhaps full success was neither possible nor desirable.

What is self-evident, Flint justly remarks, neither needs nor admits of argument.

God sees all history neither as future nor as present but as actual.

Energetically making use of this period of respite, he again issued the charter to the church, ordered his subjects to take a fresh oath of allegiance to him, and sent to the pope for aid; but neither these precautions, nor his expedient of taking the cross, deterred the barons from returning to the attack.

But neither the one nor the other expedient availed him.

They get neither political nor civil rights under Magna Carta.

There is neither worship nor propitiation.

In fact, while holding firmly by the former, Bonnet more or less modified the latter in his later writings, and, at length, he admits that a " germ " need not be an actual miniature of the organism, hut that it may be merely an " original preformation " capable of producing the latter.4 But, thus defined, the germ is neither more nor less than the "particula genitalis" of Aristotle, or the "primordium vegetale" or " ovum " of Harvey; and the " evolution " of such a germ would not be distinguishable from " epigenesis."

Neither of these could be called "small islands" or described as off the north-west coast of Spain, and so the Cassiterides were not identified with either by the Greek and Roman geographers.

Marx, puts forward the theory that Cicero and the Auctor have not produced original works, but have merely given the substance of two r xvai (both emanating from the Rhodian school); that neither used the 'r xvat directly, but reproduced the revised version of the rhetoricians whose school they attended, the introductions alone being their own work; that the lectures on which the Ciceronian treatise was based were delivered before the lectures attended by the Auctor.

Mesophytes.-These are plants which live in localities which are neither specially dry nor specially wet nor specially salty.

Although the apparent crust-waves are neither equal in size nor symmetrical in form, this complementary relationship between them is always discernible.

The bone-bed of Axmouth in Devonshire and Westbury and Aust in Gloucestershire, in the Penarth or Rhaetic series of strata, contains the scales, teeth and bones of saurians and fishes, together with abundance of coprolites; but neither there nor at Lyme Regis is there a sufficient quantity of phosphatic material to render the working of it for agricultural purposes remunerative.

The communication with the atrium is guarded by a valvula cardiaca dextra, which only in function represents the mammalian tricuspid; it consists of an oblique reduplication of the muscular fibres together with the endocardiac lining of the right ventricle, while the opposite wall is convex and forms neither a velum nor papillary muscles, nor chordae tendineae.

But it also follows that, if every extinct and recent bird were known, neither species, nor genera, nor families, nor orders could be defined.

In neither department did any Saracen, strictly speaking, invent anything; but they learned much both from Constantinople and from Persia, and what they learned they largely developed and improved.

Neither island has for ages been in any sense a Norman land, and the tongue which the Norman brought with him into both has not for ages been spoken in either.

The coming of the Norman ruled that these lands should be neither Saracen nor Greek, nor yet Italian in the same sense as northern Italy, but that they should politically belong to the same group of states as the kingdoms and principalities of feudal Europe.

In neither case is the actual speech of the conquerors one of the tongues in formal use.

In Sicily, Greek, Arabic, Latin and its children were the tongues of distinct nations; French might be the politest speech, but neither Greek nor Arabic could be set down as a vulgar tongue, Arabic even less than Greek.

Their habits were simple, and they were disfigured neither by the worst crimes nor by the primitive superstitition of savages.

Almost beardless, and with thin eyebrows, they had on their heads thick, black, lustrous hair, which neither fell off nor turned grey until extreme old age.

When compressed it is also used largely as a refrigerating agent, and in virtue of its property of neither burning nor supporting combustion it is also used as a fire extinctor.

On this theory the yellowbird or NorthAmerican "goldfinch," C. tristis, would seem, with its immediate allies, to rank among the highest forms of the group, and the pinegoldfinch, C. pinus, of the same country, to be one of the lowest the cock of the former being generally of a bright yellow hue, with black crown, tail and wings - the last conspicuously barred with white, while neither hens nor young exhibit any striations.

On the other hand, neither sex of the latter at any age puts off its striped garb - the mark, it may be pretty safely asserted, of an inferior stage of development.

At Athens, at any rate after Aristides, the eupatrid was neither better nor worse off than another man.

But at Venice neither prince nor people could open the door of the Great Council; only the Great Council itself could do that.

The chief power of the state was placed neither in the prince nor in the nation at large; it was held by a noble class.

But neither of them is a copy, as Friar Bonaventura in Ford's second play may be said to be a copy of Friar Lawrence, whose kindly pliability he disagreeably exaggerates, or as D'Avolos in Love's Sacrifice is clearly modelled on Iago.

In neither case did the allegiance involve strict obedience to orders from the superior, and their loyalty was always in danger of being troubled by their love of independence and equality and their desire for loot.

The chief con spirator, Shuiski, seized the power and was elected tsar by an Assembly composed of his faction, but neither Shuiski, the ambitious boyars, nor the pillaging Cossacks, nor the German mercenaries were satisfied with the change, and soon a new impostor, likewise calling himself Dimitri, son of Tsar Ivan, came forward as the rightful heir.

It' may be remarked that neither of these acts confers on the Board of Trade any power to inspect a railway after it has once been opened, unless and until some addition or alteration, such as is defined in the last-named act, has been made.

In appearance Xavier was neither Spanish nor Basque.

What may broadly be called "conjuring" is a much more probable explanation of most of the recorded phenomena; and in the vast majority of cases the witnesses do not seem to have duly appreciated the possibilities of conjuring, and have consequently neither taken sufficient precautions to exclude it nor allowed for the accidental circumstances which may on any particular occasion favour special tricks or illusions.

Neither nature nor acquired habits qualified him to be an orator; his late entrance on public life, his natural timidity, his feeble voice, his limited command of idiomatic English, and even, as he candidly confesses, his literary fame, were all obstacles to success.

That his temperament at the same time was frigid and comparatively passionless cannot be denied; but neither ought this to be imputed to him as a fault; hostile criticisms upon the grief for a father's death, that " was soothed by the conscious satisfaction that I had discharged all the duties of filial piety," seem somewhat out of place.

Being thus composed, he is neither able to eat flesh like his father, nor herbs like his mother; therefore he perisheth from inanition"; the moral follows.

Neither of the above rules can be applied to carbon compounds containing nitrogen.

Elaborate legal enactments codified in Babylonia by the 10th century B.C. find striking parallels in Hebrew, late Jewish (Talmudic), Syrian and Mahommedan law, or in the unwritten usages of all ages; for even where there were neither written laws nor duly instituted lawgivers, there was no lawlessness, since custom and belief were, and still are, almost inflexible.

But the proud Israelites did not remain submissive for long; Damascus had indeed fallen, but neither Philistia nor Edom had yet been crushed.

On one occasion Felix sent troops against the victorious Jews; but neither this nor the scourge and the prison, to which the leaders of both factions had been consigned, deterred them.

In the " dark ages " Jews enjoyed neither rights nor privileges; in the 18th century they were still without rights but they had privileges.

Crowds of wanderers were to be met on every road; Germany, Holland and Italy were full of Jews who, pack on shoulder, were seeking a precarious livelihood at a time when peddling was neither lucrative nor safe.

Neither in the Social War, nor in the rising of Spartacus, who held out a long time in the Sila (71 B.C.), do the Bruttii play a part as a people.

This arrangement, which was duly carried out, was avowedly " provisional " and satisfied neither party, leading in Greece especially to the military and constitutional crises of 1909 and 1910.

Mr. Henderson visited Paris in the company of Mr. Ramsay Macdonald to discuss the situation with Labour over there, but found that neither French, nor Belgian, nor Italian, nor American Labour was disposed to join.

Neither system completely differentiates long and short vowels; the Nestorian scheme is the more satisfactory, though more cumbrous.

Augustus, who showed neither talent nor inclination for government, was content to leave Poland under the influence of Russia, and Saxony to the rule of his ministers.

Wasmann considers that ants are neither miniature human beings nor mere reflex automata, and most students of their habits will probably accept this intermediate position as the most satisfactory.

In spite of the mass of literature which has accumulated on the subject, neither his death in the Temple nor his escape therefrom has been definitely established, though a very strong presumption is established in favour of the latter.

On the other hand, in most Oligochaeta the first segment has in the adult no nephridium, and in the case of Octochaetus the existence of a "head kidney" antedating the subsequently developed nephridia of the first and other segments has neither been seen nor proved to be absent.

The chief difficulty in this scheme is offered by the Moniligastridae, which in some degree combine the characters of both the suborders, into neither of which will they fit accurately.

Neither in this genus nor in the last is there any communication between coelom and vascular system.

Yet neither the gold of the court nor another man's conviction would make Mirabeau say what he did not himself believe, or do what he did not himself think right.

As an orator his eloquence has been likened to that of both Bossuet and Vergniaud, but it had neither the polish of the old 17th century bishop nor the flashes of genius of the young Girondin.

He spared neither men, money, nor himself in attempting to carry out his gigantic scheme for the colonization of the south Russian steppes; but he never calculated the cost, and more than three-quarters of the design had to be abandoned when but half finished.

Neither during his life nor after his death did any two people agree about him.

The truths which this "disposition of nature" obliges us to accept can be neither proved nor disproved; they are practically followed even by those who reject them speculatively.

These proceedings aroused the anger and jealousy of the barons, and their wrath was diminished neither by Gaveston's superior skill at the tournament, nor by his haughty and arrogant behaviour to themselves.

This is but an imitation of the hand-hoe, or a succenadeum to it, and can neither supply the use of dung nor fallow, and may be properly called scratch-hoeing."

The mangel crop also is mainly English, the summer in most parts of Scotland being neither long enough nor warm enough to bring it to maturity.

In common with other sciences, economics makes use of " abstractions"; but if for some problems we employ symbolic processes of reasoning, we must keep clearly in view the limits of their significance, and neither endow the symbols with attributes they can never possess, nor lose sight of the realities behind them.

The bishops' Interpretations and Further Considerations, issued in 1560, tolerated a lower vestiarian standard than was prescribed by the rubric of 1559; the Advertisements, which Parker published in 1566, to check the Puritan descent, had to appear without specific royal sanction; and the Reformatio legum ecclesiasticarum, which Foxe published with Parker's approval, received neither royal, parliamentary nor synodical authorization.

Neither the rotation of the shell as a whole nor its helicoid spiral coiling is the immediate cause of the torsion of the body in the individual, for the direction of the torsion is indicated in the segmentation of the ovum, in which there is a complete A B From Lankester's Treatise on Zoology.

Heart has only a single auricle, neither heart nor pericardium traversed by rectum.

The three following families have neither radula nor jaws, and are therefore called Aglossa.

Head very large, not marked off from the body; neither branchia nor suckers; fins situated near the middle of the body.

Neither Louis Bonaparte nor German douaniers could be trusted to carry out in all their stringency the decrees for the entire exclusion of British commerce from those important regions.

Fouche, for meddling in the negotiations through an agent of his own, was promptly disgraced; and, when neither England was moved by diplomatic cajolery nor Louis Bonaparte by threats, French troops were sent against the Dutch capital.

Neither series when published attained any great popularity.

It was for some time thought that from Sierra Leone as a centre industry and civilization might be diffused amongst the nations of the continent; and in 1822 the colony (which in 1847 became the independent republic) of Liberia had been founded by Americans with a similar object; but in neither case have these expectations been adequately fulfilled.

Indeed it could not be that I should; for I neither laid the foundation of repentance nor of preaching the Gospel, taking it for granted that all to whom I preached were believers, and that many of them needed no repentance.

Dio Chrysostom, Plutarch's contemporary, declares that neither Homer nor Hesiod sang of the chariot and horses of Zeus so worthily as Zoroaster, of whom the Persians tell that, out of love to wisdom and righteousness, he withdrew himself from men, and lived in solitude upon a mountain.

We understand what is meant and neither desire nor demand a strict definition.

The chief executive officers have four-year terms, neither the governor nor the treasurer being eligible for immediate re-election.