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Why, one would think they had ne'er been fed in their lives!"
There are reasons certain tomes have ne'er been made available to the world."
"I have ne'er forced myself on a woman.
I've ne'er forced myself on any female, not even the village wenches or the servants."
Ah, now, had poor Pip but felt so kind a thing as this, perhaps he had ne'er been lost!
If it be ne'er so false, a true gentleman may swear it in the behalf of his friend.
He was going naked, as men did not, and stumbling as if he had been ne'er there before.
"I have ne'er seen their like before."
More blessed hap did ne'er befall our state.
"And hast thou ne'er seen trees move of their own accord afore, sir?"
"They have ne'er seen the outside."
Hadst thou in person ne'er offended me, Even for his sake am I pitiless.
"I have ne'er seen him so angered," Cordelia murmured to Magnus.
We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
'I've ne'er been as glad of anything as when she went,' Gran said, harshly.
He and I have ne'er been close, yet do we respect each other's discretion, and mayhap we can work to mutual benefit."
"Douglass was ne'er as doltish as ye, Claude!
This they friendly will tell, and ne'er make you blush, With a jeering look, taunt, or an O fie!
You ne'er oppress'd me with a mother's groan, Yet I express to you a mother's care.
You ne'er kill'd Imogen till now.
He caun ne'er be bothered but maun e'er be waked.
That S.C.U. men [team] ne'er give ground.
That's to ye sworn to none was ever said; For feasts of love I have been called unto, Till now did ne'er invite nor never woo. '
PANDARUS Prithee, get thee in: would thou hadst ne'er been born!
Now he commands me to complete my task; My royal master's brow is still uncrowned, 'Twere better for me I had ne'er been born!