"Na" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... overflowed high upon Clooth-na-Bare, For the wet winds are blowing out of the clinging air; Like heavy flooded waters our bodies and our blood, But purer than a tall candle before the Holy Rood Is Cathleen the ...
— Stories of Red Hanrahan • W. B. Yeats
... your spare breath for coolin' your broth; And when just Law has a fair clar course, All talk of "wild justice" is frenzy and froth. Uncle SAM is free, but he sez, sez he:— "If he gits within hail Of the Glan-na-Gael, Or the Mafia ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, April 11, 1891 • Various
... really possible; since 'according to some' it is 'clear' that what the text means to express is the embodied soul as the starting-point of the pranas. The some are the Madhyandinas, who in their text of the Brihad-aranyaka read 'na tasmat prana utkramanti'—'the pranas do not pass forth from him' (the 'tasya' thus being the reading of the Kanva Sakha only).—But, an objection is raised, there is no motive for explicitly negativing the passing away of the pranas ...
— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 • Trans. George Thibaut
... had no laucht at yon foolish lads and begun to rin at the first you'd a bin sinkin' doon to the bowels o' the airth be the noo! Wully Beagrie thocht you was a ghaist, and Tom MacPhail swore ye was only like a goblin on a puddick-steel! "Na!" said I. "Yon's but the daft Englishman—the loony that had escapit frae the waxwarks." I was thinkin' that bein' strange and silly—if not a whole-made feel—ye'd no ken the ways o' the quicksan'! I shouted ...
— Dracula's Guest • Bram Stoker
... be, and the result is a confused jumble of odds and ends, consequent on some persons considering that the end and aim of a museum should be the preservation of "bullets" collected by "Handy-Andy" from the field of "Arrah-na-Pogue," "My Grandfather's Clock," and ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne
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