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单词 ne'er a one
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ne'er a one
1. Never a; not a, not a single; no. Frequently in ne'er a one.
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a1350 (?c1225) King Horn (Harl.) (1901) 260 (MED) Hue ne dorste at bord mid him speke ner a word.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 622 Ryght nere a del.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) vi. 154 Vche oon so from other That nere a sistir touche nere a brother.
c1530 Court of Love 1197 Me thoughte, he loved her nere a dele.
1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 32 Who now so long hath prays'd the Choughs white bill That he hath left her ne'er a flying quill.
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor ii. i. sig. Ev There's ne're a Gentleman i' the countrie has the like humors for the Hobby-horse as I haue. View more context for this quotation
1620 F. Quarles Pentelogia ii Could Sinners finde out ne're a one, More fit than Thee, for them to spit upon?
1667 S. Pepys Diary 28 June (1974) VIII. 300 And ne'er a prince in France dare whisper against it.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 46 You have ne're a Shirt on.
1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xxvi, in Poems 19 The ne'er-a-bit they're ill to poor folk.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 20 They are ne'er a hair better than them that [etc.].
1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xxii Ne'er a one of them has ever whispered her pretty little secrets to me.
1896 Longman's Mag. Dec. 153 Tidden nar'a mo'sel o' good setten up no longer vor vather.
1912 B. E. Baughan in D. M. Davin N.Z. Short Stories (1953) 120 ‘Ay,’ said Dad, as we parted. ‘Good kids all, as you say; ne'er a scabby sheep among 'em.’
1973 M. L. Settle Prisons v. 69 Why, I had then only a niggle and ne'er a notion as the young boy said to the whore of what I was to do.
1977 T. Kilroy Talbot's Box (1979) ii. 63 He put down the tools outta his hands. Again, nare a word.
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