". . . neither fish ___ fowl"

Usage examples of nor.

I have heard thy windy talk, and this is the answer: we will neither depart, nor come down to you, but will abide our death by your hands here on this hill-side.

It was to have been a glorious rebirth--but not all souls were approved, nor were all tombs inviolate, so that certain grotesque mistakes and fiendish abnormalities were to be looked for.

But no human being loved the aborigines more, nor stood ready to lay down her life for them if it were necessary.

Nor can we, on the other hand, think that matter is simply Absolute Magnitude.

So, though Rosemary West may have physically abused him, neither she nor her husband were anxious to relinquish Steven McAvoy once he was in her hands.

The Wests clearly made sure Carol Ann Cooper could neither move nor cry out when they abused her.

But there can be no doubt that the Wests made sure she could neither move nor cry out when they abused her.

Brook Community Home to find her way to Cromwell Street, nor was she the last to be brutally abused there by Frederick and Rosemary West.

George nor Gracie accelerates, their perspectives are on precisely equal footing.

An Englishman took the bill, and after a careful examination said he neither knew the drawer, the accepter, nor the backer.

Remember: achieving fulfillment through spiritual transformation is not easy, nor is it supposed to be, but it is what you are meant to do.

Miss melermfy wich J am writen this for miss Digwid on acount of not been nor mistr D pertikler scullards for to say.

The United States was prepared neither to seize the leadership nor to acquiesce in Japanese control of China which must result from failure to seize it.

Bright, on the other, threw some acrimony into these debates, but probably the former never appeared to less advantage in parliament, nor the latter to more advantage than in this discussion.

No man enters a Martian city without giving a very detailed and satisfactory account of himself, nor did I delude myself with the belief that I could for a moment impose upon the acumen of the officers of the guard to whom I should be taken the moment I applied at any one of the gates.