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Example sentences for "neither could"

  • He had promised faithfully that he would send a large force to clear away the high grass by which our station was surrounded; this was never fulfilled, neither could I engage the natives to work for hire.

  • What I should do when winter came on I knew not, neither could I tell how I could make myself worthy of my love.

  • When I had arrived at the door of this kiddleywink, I was at a loss what to do, neither could I make out why he had come here.

  • But as I said just now, I am not clever at answering people, neither could I frame answers to her questions which would hide the truth from her.

  • I could not speak, neither could I see, so I became passive, and they led me along a road which I knew descended.

  • Of the town I can give no account, as the weather was so thick that I could not see it; neither could I sufficiently distinguish the land to set off the points, at which I was not a little mortified.

  • But none of my men knew the road to the Malagarazi, neither could guides be hired from Sultan Imrera.

  • Without some one who spoke good Arabic, I could not have obtained the friendship of the chief Arabs in Unyanyembe; neither could I have well communicated with them, for though I understood Arabic, I could not speak it.

  • They could not assist him, neither could he help himself.

  • He had presence of mind enough, however, to move behind his tree, out of sight; but still he could not remove his eyes from the animal, neither could he determine upon any plan to extricate himself from his unpleasant situation.

  • On foot, Frank could not hope to escape from the bear, which, in spite of his clumsy appearance, was making his way toward them with surprising rapidity; neither could he disable him by a shot from his rifle.

  • I answered his Reverence that I would rather travel afoot, if it were not too far; neither could he persuade me, after the experience of that morning, to hoist my flag on an unknown horse, the command of which he offered me.

  • These things were beyond my grasp of widest comprehension, neither could I desire a war, begun about nothing, anyhow.

  • Neither could we tell what new horrors were in store for us.

  • Neither could I procure the manuscript from the bishop.

  • Neither could I forbear to take a retrospective view of the manner in which they had been expended.

  • But Father Garnett was far from any such base and unworthy mind: neither could he ever be brought to repair his own liberty with the ruins of others.

  • Neither could he fear the favour or furtherance of the See Apostolic, which favoured him much and assisted him many ways whilst yet he was but King of Scotland and professed a contrary faith.

  • This was about the 4th June, and as the winter monsoon was come, we durst not attempt going to Cambaya, neither could we find any place upon that coast to winter in.

  • Our anchorage was in thirteen and fourteen fathoms, under an island near the main, upon which were no people, neither could we find fresh water, though we dug very deep for it in the sand.

  • Her little shrine and holy place I never had profaned, feeling that a stranger had no business there; neither could I bring myself to hang about in ambush, and lurk for the hour of her evening prayer and hymn.

  • The bar to which Sur Imar had been bound was still in place; but he was not in sight, neither could I see his son, the gentle youth sent to assassinate him.

  • The soft light fell upon the sweetest face that heaven itself ever shone upon; and I tried to speak, but no words came; neither could I look upon her as I longed to do.

  • Neither could I rid myself of the fear that even then old Solomon was near me, waiting to complete the destruction of my life which he had attempted when we were here together before.

  • But no man molested me as I found my way to the chamber which had been allotted to me, neither could I hear a sound coming from the adjoining room.

  • Not a house was in sight, neither could I see aught but the line of road curling its way along the heather covered land, and the belt of trees which lay beyond.

  • And as he could not hear, so neither could he see; the law had struck him deaf and blind.

  • In my preaching I have really been in pain, and have, as it were, travailed to bring forth children to God; neither could I be satisfied unless some fruits did appear in my work.

  • We sounded often when in the midst of them, and afterwards in the smooth water; but found no ground, neither could we perceive that they drove us any way.

  • Neither could I relish their method of cookery, and, after the first trial, begged to have our future dinners drest a la Francaise.

  • Neither could he give over this, without foregoing the means to undertake anything hereafter upon France or England; and, consequently, the Hope of the Western Monarchy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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