"Nas" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Tha nas ther na mare, i than fehte to laue, of twa hundred thusend monnen, tha ther leien to-hawen; buten Arthur the king one, and of his cnihtes tweien. Arthur wes forwunded wunderliche swithe. Ther to him com a cnaue, the wes of his cunne; he wes Cadores sune, the eorles of Cornwaile. ...
— Anglo-Saxon Literature • John Earle
... to his neglected education, was as ignorant as herself of the charms of this new amusement for school-children. So Polly tried to console herself by jumping rope in the back-yard, and playing tag with Maud in the drying-room, where she likewise gave lessons in "nas-gim-nics," as Maud called it, which did that little person good. Fanny came up sometimes to teach them a new dancing step, and more than once was betrayed into a game of romps, for which she was none the worse. But Tom turned a cold ...
— An Old-fashioned Girl • Louisa May Alcott |
