What is "nary"

Usage examples of "nary".

And next Summer when I start out on my campane with my Show, wharever I pitch my little tent, you shall see floatin prowdly from the center pole thereof the Amerikan Flag, with nary a star wiped out, nary a stripe less, but the same old flag that has allers flotid thar!

Lesuperis ranting and raving in his nasal whine, clad in his peacock finery as he strutted circles around the victim of his tirade, and Valleri, so cool, so poised, taking it all with nary a word as he had done from so many others who thought him unworthy of common decency, too smart to be baited into a brawl, too proud to lose his temper.

And next Summer when I start out on my campane with my Show, wharever I pitch my little tent, you shall see floatin prowdly from the center pole thereof the Amerikan Flag, with nary a star wiped out, nary a stripe less, but the same old flag that has allers flotid thar!

As a teenage boy, I was of course above such declasse bourgeois enterprises and blew past them on my way to the local touch football games with nary a glance.

I figured it was my own special burden, so I done it with nary a complaint, and pretty soon we had three full eight-hour shifts of handmaidens toiling away in the service of the Lord, and an awful lot of the windows in the other buildings were temporarily boarded up.

Spellbound, the circle of pupils watched him with nary a titter at the appearance of an old and overweight wizard trying to tiptoe like an actor overplaying the part of a skulking thief.

Within a few years, and aided by his beloved Margarete (cleverly incarnated as a sort of late medieval executive a la Martha Stewart, who runs her father's manufacturing empire with nary a hair out of place), Faust has introduced Western Europe to just about every ill known to post-modern man.

Save Aarundel, his family, and Shijef, I'd nary a friend in the legfslatorium or the galleries above it.

The black spared their cascading fall nary a glance, focusing his eyes instead on the source of the smoke.

Puzzled, Grimm searched the inner and outer wards, whistling repeatedly, but he heard nary a nicker, no thunder of hooves.

This was also the year that Pam began vanishing from magazines, until she finally went completely AWOL at year's end, nary a lipstick-smudged postcard to any of us.

All I can 'vise you is, don't squeeze nary a one off till you got a clear, justified target.

But, when we got to the house, won't nary a sign of either one of 'em, 'cept just a little bit of blood just inside the door and a little more on the steps going down to the basement, was all.

His power should have launched the entire walltoward the clouds, but there was nary a budge.

I came to with a head like a butter churn and nary a kerchief to tie around me.